Thursday, November 7, 2013

Day 5 in Chile (October 30, 2013)



This was the day that we went for conference excursion. Our excursion was supposed to be kicked off by 8:00am but the bus did not arrive on time and we had to wait for the bus to come which took more than 30min. We were also told that it is normal in Patagonia province for not being on time for every appointment. For me it is okey because I know where I came from, you know what I’m referring.
 Going to the grey lake
Our first stop of our excursion was at the beach in the valley called Grey Lake that has very interesting iceberg. Unlike the usual icebergs, the iceberg that we saw here was clearly blue with amazingly different structural shapes. In general, Grey Lake is a glacially fed lake in Torres del Paine National Park. 
 Magnificent iceberg and background structure!
 Never seen such clean lake!
Our second stop was the Salto Grande waterfall on the Paine River, after the Nordenskjöld Lake, within the park. In the vicinity of Salto Grande are a variety of natural vegetation forms as well as certain wildlife species, including the wild Guanaco.
 Salto Grande water fall, decorated with renbow
 VIP SAMBA team behind the Salto Grande water fall!
 What can we say with this!
The third stop was the cascades Paine that come from the Southern Patagonia Ice Field and flow towards the northeast. Our next stop was at the Laguna Azul to see the flamingos, though we found none unfortunately. The last stop of excursion was Laguna Amarga, and finally return back to our hotel that is surrounded by Rio Serrano river. What a wonderful day!
 cascades Paine river!
 wild Guanaco, grazing around!
  Laguna Azul lake, which is deserted of flamingo! 
Laguna Amarga lake!

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