Jackie and her friends went on an adventurous trip that turned out slightly differently than they had planned. Here's an excerpt from their travels.
Undaunted, we ignored the warnings of our dueño (cabin owner/cook/tour guide) who mentioned that the trails in Parque Nacional Conguillio are not nearly as well marked as those in US National Parks. After hours of trekking over jet black volcanic rock, with Volcán Llaima smoldering in the background, we did manage to find Lago Verde, a small lake carved out by lava after the most recent major eruption in 1963. (According to our taxi driver, two less severe eruptions occured in 1994 and 2001.) The lake was gorgeous, deep green and surrounded by hundreds of eerily bare tree trunks (think "Dante's Peak." We were so distracted by the wonderful exfoliation properties of the pumice rocks that no one noticed it was growing dark...
Back in Santiago, her most recent blog begins, "The city is currently recovering, not from a natural disaster or civil unrest, but from the Universidad de Chile fùtbol (soccer) game at Estadio Nacional yesterday." Find out what happened.
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