With a short day on the cards and a scheduled departure not till after lunch there was time to take in the beautiful surrounds of our Hostel on a lovely crisp morning !
For self it was a great opportunity to put the drone up in the air and take in the stunning scenery ! One of the guides suggested I fly it up over the Orsono Volcano - I said i'd give it a go on the proviso that he'd climb up and get it back when it crashed !
Suggesting that i"d need a bigger battery to make it happen Herman indicated that I could use Julia"s E Bike battery the only problem being that a) The drone would never take off & b) we"d somehow have to crowbar Julia"s death grip from it !
With lunch taken it was time to descend ! Henley had deliberately taken in an extra course at lunch time to give himself an extra gravity advantage in the "barge ass" race to the bottom !
At such a steep gradient this was at times a hairy descent with numerous sharp corners positioned to trap the unwary !
We used the opportunity when rocketting downhill to take in the stunning views ! I caught H unawares flying past him near the bottom but in true "barge ass" competitive spirit he used his recently found excess Argentian Kg's (read numerous coffe cakes) to pip me on the line !
From the flat we jumped back on our motorway bike path whereThommo (UK Kev)'took off like the clappers (obviously on drugs) leaving all bar Julia in his wake !
After following on with 6kms on a dirt road through a National Park we boarded our very own private boat for an amazing 2hr journery on a lake with a 360 degree vista of Mountains and forests.
Off the boat we completed some boulder hopping to our magnificently situated Hotel Natura right smack in the middle of a National Park just short of our Andes crossing.
After a day of scenery overload it was nice to sit back in our luxury (apparently money laundered) hotel while contemplating tomorrows crossing back over the Andes into Argentina !
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| Heading back down ! |
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| Crossing the lake ! |
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