Decided to go and find a Monkey Puzzle forest we had read about, so drove about an hour further into the mountains to the start of the track. A stunning walk, 7km uphill through forest but not a monkey puzzle tree in sight! Having thought that there really haven´t been any nasty creepy crawly things in Chile, there in the middle of the track was a dirty great big Tarantula!!!! It was very hairy and as big as my fist! After spending a while watching it we moved on. After 7km the track droped over a small ridge and it was really as if we had entered another ecosystem. Very prehistoric, with heaps of Monkey Puzzle trees, bright red Fuschias and Hummingbirds. All this at about 5000 feet! There were 3 little lakes and of course the boys had to have a swim!
The walk back down was much faster and we definately needed beer and juice to replace all our fluid!!!
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