okay so it's quarter past seven we actually left the house at like 6:45 650

ish so yeah we're getting up right in early we've got a day of adventure ahead

yes an excursion we are super excited about we're going to be visiting Los Alerces National Park

which is meant to be beautiful or spending all day they

are taking the bus so we've booked a boat trip and we're gonna be cruising on

some spectacular lakes we're also going to be seeing a glacier

we're gonna see an ancient forest where the trees are 2700 years old in Los Alerces National Park yeah I'm

gonna be awesome can't wait to do it but first things

first this tour doesn't include transportation to the park so we getting

to the bus terminal bright in early if we got to purchase some local bus

tickets and yeah start the journey to get to the Los Alerces National Park well show you how it's

done

we were visiting a skel during low season so there was only one daily bus

with transport this is scale leaving in the early morning and returning in the

evening we make sure to arrive at the bus terminal one hour ahead of departure

to make sure we could get seats on the buses you can't reserve tickets ahead of

time and once they're gone they're gone as a tip you'll want to buy a round-trip

bus ticket so that the driver will see the seat for you on the way back there

were a few people who got stranded in the park because they hadn't bought

return tickets and the bus was packed later that night so don't wing it unless

you want to spend the night at one of the campsites even better friends a car

if you can good morning world I've had a series of lovely and little naps on the

drive over thankfully Sam was there to film it to document the experience to

igari limits she even slept on the special tourist train yesterday on the

way back there's nowhere Audrey will not sleep I slept on the way back anyways we

are off the bus we've been driving for two and a half hours because we left at

8:00 it's now 10:30 and we were dropped off at Pasadena Julio Adonis and from

here we have to walk about 20 minutes to the port the port is called guardo Chu

cow and this is where we'll be taking the boat tour they warned us to be

punctual because it's really easy to kind of I guess go off in different

directions yeah right I'm taking photos and videos but if we're not there on

time yeah it's that simple yeah like they

they really made that pretty clear don't dilly-dally taking photos filming you

can do that on the way back so we are marching

and as we continue our walk at a steady pace and some illness me I'm gonna tell

you a little bit about the prices how much we paid for all of this

so the excursion we booked in town and it was fifty US dollars per person then

in order to enter the park we had to pay nine dollars that's the fee for

foreigners if you are Argentine it's less and if you're a resident of the

province of Chubut it's even less and transport we also have to pay for

transport because that's not included in this excursion and that was 12 or 13 US

dollars so there you have the the cost for today's activities we also bought

some snacks packed a little lunch or on our way

what do you think Sam this is like being back at Banff National Park home oh yeah

I mean leave utiful I mean I don't want to take anything away from this place

being compared to Banff is a very as hyper yeah the color of the water here

is unbelievable it's like a glacial turquoise

one of the coolest parts of the boat ride was seeing the daughter she does

glacier if you're up for a serious trek there are excursions in Los Alerces National Park

that take you right to the foot of the glacier

after cruising on the north end of lake Menendez we reach the Alisal million REO

where we disembarked and continued the rest of the excursion on foot the trees

that we had come to see are the alerts Espada guanacos also known as LaJuan

this is a type of tree that can be found in the valdivian temperate rain forest

below the higher elevations of the Andes in both Argentina and Chile these trees

can grow from sea level up to 1500 meters above sea level and even though

they are slow growth trees they can reach heights of above 15 meters well

we've disembark that's quite the bow ride huh and now we hike we have to hike

as a group yeah so kind of sticking behind well our guide we've been told if

we need a walking stick we can help ourselves to these ganya Oh naturally it

kind of looked like bamboo yeah alright guys now we begin the hike we enjoyed a

one and a half hour boat ride yeah we sure did it was out there the whole time

top of the boat it was just amazing and the Sun kept popping in and out and yeah

the senior is fantastic it was magic magic now we are doing a 2.2 kilometer

hike and we're going to gain an altitude of 70 metres over the course of the

first seven hundred metres of the hike let's do it let's do it do we have to

follow our guide we've been told we can't linger behind this is a guided

tour can't do the solo it's not really our style but this is the only way to

visit this part of the National Park you have to do it as part of a tour you

can't do it independently so sacrificing I did this like I was saying earlier

this is a pretty special part of the forest because of the age of the trees

at the start of the trail we saw one that's 2700 years old insanity and

they're able to tell its age because the alert sea grows one millimeter per year

in terms of its width that's insane and this one eight meters

salmon action this is what it looks like we've been gaining a bit of altitude

here and apparently we are really close to reaching the ellipsis the ancient

ellipsis thousands of years old excited for a little man versus nature moment

nature nature always when my goodness

well what a marvelous excursion that was oh wow

I had I had no idea the hike would be that impressive it was just around every

corner it was Wow yeah it was up and down and there's just so many different

fascinating things to see in the forest like various trees to different plants I

mean there's there's types of plants and trees I've never seen before here hmm

and now we've come to the end of the trail there's like a little lookout

point check out these views behind us

beautiful lake mountains in the horizon this is so much fun now we're gonna get

back on the boat enjoy some little snacks yep and travel

back to where we started shimmy - meow - meow meow

Donna I thought that is mine that is our food and toilet paper supply

we are back on dry land on dry land we've got what two two hours and a half

now to kill until the the bus the bus the only box if you miss bus you are

stuck here overnight you sleep in the park so we're going on a hike so we met

a French girl who's been doing lots of hiking around here and she was like this

is a really nice trail you should go here and check it out so we're like all

right oh yeah apparently it takes 45 minutes to an hour so that's gonna yeah

almost kill half the time and then we'll still have some time to do a bit more

walking hi how much do you live

me well enough for me to agree to have a pizza which you want to make what I

don't even love pizza you do we have found a tree with apples they look a bit

green how do you feel about green apples that are into granny smith apples just

like green green yeah you know what apples that's like an autumn fruit and

right now it's summer not quite ready

and that was our excursion to Lawson ursus National Park in search of two

thousand year old trees we hope you guys enjoy this trip and we'll see you soon

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