australis road

In december of the last year i had the chance to go to Coyhaique to work. I had to teach about the local enviroment to children of Cochrane, Tortel and Villa O´higgins, this for a friends ONG. I was two weeks and more treveling across de road. The first week i worked with the children and the rest of the time traveled alone making autostop.

The first week i went from Coyhaique to Villa O´higgins, that is the last town on the road, in the begining of the "campos de hielo sur", a small town with only 500 habitant. Tortel or Caleta Tortel is a small town between "Campos de hielo norte" y "Campos de hielo sur", a town without streets, only stairs and bridge of wood. Front a fiord and near of the Baker river, the biggest river in Chile.

I made a trekking for 4 days in Cerro Castillo, alone with my tent and a Bolaño´s book, i don´t met anybody in this trip, cause all the time i was alone, for first time in my life, far to everything and lost in the middle of the mountains and the forest of patagonia. Then, i was in Puerto Cisne, Queulat and other small towns, but this time i met a lot of good people. Some of benifits to make a trip alone with a friendly face.

Patagonia is a incredible place, is awesome, everything is big and beatiful and magic, with a lot of virgin lands and a lot of good people, i still remeber the sky, the forest, the silent and the wind, the glaciers, the infinit rivers and the road in rain, the long road to the end of the world.