While we had originally planned on driving all the way up the Carreterra Austral from Lago General Carrera, hampered by our car situation, we were happy to still go a little way along it to visit the incredible marble caves near Rio Tranquilo.
The day before leaving to take the 5hr bus trip to Rio Tranquilo, we were stoked to bump into our Aussie pals Tarunya and Adam who we'd originally met at Torres del Paine. We ended up going to Rio Tranquilo together with them, two swedish girls (Malin and Sandra) and one Brazilian guy (Eduardo).
We all chipped in to rent out a cabana for two nights and had an awesome time visiting the caves on Tarunya's birthday, eating birthday cake (nice work Adam!) and generally having a few drinks and hanging out.
The caves have been formed by windswell waves breaking on the rock, eroding and polishing it over the course of thousands of years. It's a really incredible, beautiful place and we were all pretty excited to realise that it doesn't seem to be very touristy. Can't help but think that in 5-10 years you're not going to be able to move around this area for all the tourists flocking here.
Amazing!!!! xxx
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