Justine and Dylan’s Travel Blog

Huerquehue is a national park not far from Pucon where we are now. Walk was about 17kms and only between 800 and 1400m high (woohoo, no worries about altitude any more… although we weren´t quite sprinting up the hills I have to admit… with the lower altitude the temperature also seems to have picked up a bit). Apart from the views of the local vulcano (Villaricca), the park has some very scenic lakes and a tree variety called the Araucaria. Kind of like a cross between a palm tree and a pine tree with dinosaur scales. They get pretty big and it made for a nice change in the forest scenery. So did the trees actually which I wasn´t used to any more after 4 weeks above 3000m including Altiplano´s and deserts (not a lot of trees there). Which reminds me that Pucon is funnily enough about the closest thing I´ve seen to Switzerland (except with snow capped vulcanoes rather than mountains), although apparently Bariloche (in Argentina where we´re off to next), is even more so. Strange.