Lauren: These steam rollers were used to establish the city. The Mapuche drove the imperial Europeans out and they left these. There are maybe 50-100 scattered throughout the city.
Aneya: A shot of the girls! Notice how bundled up we are? It was way colder in the south, windy, rainy, just 100 % different from Santiago.
Aneya: Lauren, happy to be eating her nuts.Lauren: I love nuts.
Aneya: Daniela showing off her seafood soup.
Aneya: Daniela showing off her seafood soup.
Aneya: I can't even begin to describe how beautiful this place was. I don't feel like pictures do it justice, really. But this one's quite nice.Lauren: This is a potato field. There are over 100 varieties of potato and bean in this region.
Aneya: These trees remind me of France, for some reason.
Aneya: I didn't ask this man if I could sit on his boat, I hope he didn't mind!
Aneya: "I believe I can fly.....I believe I can touch the sky...." Daniela took this shot, and it's amazing, so muchas gracias Dani!
Aneya: Daniela, walking the plank!
Aneya: So cute! Little duckies, there were all kids of animals wandering around this place.Lauren: There were so many domestic animals around this pastoral area. Cows, pigs, sheep, ox, horses. And because it's summer there are lots of babies everywhere.
Lauren: These pictures don't show how beautiful the sea was here. Waves crashing so far out, it seemed like there was a mile of just sea foam. The earth here is black because of the nearby volcanoes, and it's warm from the geothermal energy.
Aneya: The view from up here was really quite breathtaking. The waves crashing on one side, then streaming into the calm lake next to it.
Lauren: Mapuche totem pole.
Lauren: Potato harvest time.
Lauren: Mapuche ruka, this is the traditional home of the Mapuche who still largely populate this area.
Aneya: A little too close for comfort here. I think he agrees.
Lauren: These are sacs of potatoes. They were everywhere! It seemed to be the harvest day for everyone in this region.
Lauren: Lake Budi. This place has a really interesting history Daniela's uncle told us all about. It was such a pleasure to be travelling the countryside with a cultural anthropologist. This lake was created after a devastating 9.8 earthquake created a tsunami that went over the land and settled here. This is the largest salt water lake in South America and has tons of black-necked swans.
Lauren: These were all made from one tree trunk (each)!
-- Aneya & Lauren
Lauren: These pictures don't show how beautiful the sea was here. Waves crashing so far out, it seemed like there was a mile of just sea foam. The earth here is black because of the nearby volcanoes, and it's warm from the geothermal energy.
Aneya: The view from up here was really quite breathtaking. The waves crashing on one side, then streaming into the calm lake next to it.
Lauren: Mapuche totem pole.
Lauren: Potato harvest time.
Lauren: Mapuche ruka, this is the traditional home of the Mapuche who still largely populate this area.
Aneya: A little too close for comfort here. I think he agrees.
Lauren: These are sacs of potatoes. They were everywhere! It seemed to be the harvest day for everyone in this region.
Lauren: Lake Budi. This place has a really interesting history Daniela's uncle told us all about. It was such a pleasure to be travelling the countryside with a cultural anthropologist. This lake was created after a devastating 9.8 earthquake created a tsunami that went over the land and settled here. This is the largest salt water lake in South America and has tons of black-necked swans.
Lauren: These were all made from one tree trunk (each)!
-- Aneya & Lauren
Those tree-trunk sculptures are amazing!
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