Parque Nacional Altos Lircay

We have entered southern Chile and stepped right in the middle of autumn. As we arrived to the city of Talca it was raining so heavy that after a 15 minute walk we were completely soaked - to the extent that none of our clothes had dried by the next morning. The reason to enter this murky city was to access the beautiful national park of Altos Lircay, which we almost didn´t go to beacause of the rain. But luckily we took our chances and made the interesting journey into the park.

It was still raining, though not as hard, when we got to the small village of Altos Lircay, just at the edge of the park, but we found the refugio in no time and were greeted with a fire and the refugio, which in reality was a huge amazing log cabin, all to oursleves. We waited a few hours for the rain to ease - spending that time making a puzzle...and really enjoyed it by the way (Maiju , nyt ei voi sit tostakaan sanoo enaa mitaan...;) -haha - then headed for the walk to the look out. It was a beautiful, though hard walk, pretty much climbing all the time, but we got to a look out to the waterfalls - not quite as far as we wanted to get which was a lookout of a volcano (but in this weather we wouldn´t have probably seen it anyway) - as we didn´t have enough day light left.

On our way back the sky cleared and the sun intesified the beautiful autumn colours infront of our eyes. We got back to the refugio just as the sun was setting, knackered after 18km of walking and treated oursleves to the most expensive bottle of wine we have bought so far - this at the hard price of 3,000pesos (about $9/4e)...tough life ay ;)