Cajón del Maipo / Baños Colina / El Morado Over the weekend I was in the Cajon del Maipo with Nacho. The village of Baños Morales to which we have gone relatively far in the mountains. Since hardly any people live there and the village really only live on tourism, there are only Saturday and Sunday buses. So we are on Saturday in the morning went there on a bumpy dirt road there. The bus was so crowded that people were allowed to stand at the roadside, even though the next bus is only 24 hours later! Once there, we wanted to stay in the National Park "El Morado" around there at least one night. But the park ranger told us that the camp since This year, because last year was forbidden to leave much garbage. Great. We have searched in vain for another access to the park but as it is a canyon there is really only this one guarded entrance. On the road, we then have a 60-year Señor Roberto taken, and asked his advice. He told us that 12km uphill are thermal pools and that we can stay there overnight. At the same time he invited us into the holiday homes of the guard there, he / maintains. We will then set out on the thermal springs of Baños Colina. On the way we passed a few cars had to give up because of the bad road conditions.
The Spa is awesome! There are simple holes in the ground muddy with volcanic water heating in every room are filled. The top pool is the hottest, and indeed so hot that you inevitably leave after 3 minutes, the pool has to take account of any permanent damage from it. The output of this basin is the next lowest, etc. The result is a pleasant variation of the temperatures. Besides camping, we had there, drinking water and a shower (but ice cold glacier melt water). On Saturday we spent there several hours and did not want to have more out in the cold.
night at 4 am I had to go to the bathroom and had very cold feet. I decided not to go into the sleeping bag back and instead spend the rest of the night at the spa. There were also some other celebrated guests through the night and invited me for a beer. Under a starry sky and less than 0 º I enjoyed the hot springs there.
came after sunrise also eventually frozen by Nacho total crawled from the tent. Then, when reached by about 8 clock the sun our tent, I made up the last hours of sleep.
the afternoon, we traveled all the way back and visited the Roberto invited us the day before had. Roberto was incredibly hospitable and made us the master bedroom provided. We then cooked in the evening, a lot of talk and a little drunk.
Mondays we are then in the National Park, which really is not huge. After about an hour the whole valley was covered in snow and we have moved for partial meter-high snow. On the whole, it went too well, only now and then we are down:
The lagoon was still snowed in and only be guessed at, but the glacier was more impressive.
Roberto was on Monday evening after Santiago break and we have asked whether we can set up the tent in the garden to stay until Tuesday. After briefly considering he then decided that he will also remain a day longer. So we can spend another lovely evening with Roberto. We will probably meet in Santiago also shown on a beer to give him the photos on paper.
On Tuesday we took it very quietly and then turned to address only a small round. Among other things, we have passed the Refugio Aleman. One of the first shelters in the Andes at about 2000m. The Austrian influence is overlooked in the design with little tuft roof.
Back We came to Santiago hitch. Buses run there during the week because, as we do not. I am now here in Santiago (wash lectures, laundry, organize photos, blog writing) is just a brief pit stop, and tonight it goes with my French roommates in the Elqui valley. While there I was before, but by all the rain I can not see much.
did well!
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