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Published: March 2nd 2008
Our final trek before, very reluctantly, leaving Chile.This national park is right near where Dan lives - in fact where about 80% of Chile's population of 16 million live. The area was visited by Darwin where he climbed La Compagna Mountain and found fish fossils at the top setting him off on the path to the theory of evolution. We didn't follow his example.
The ecology is very different here to Herquehue about 750 miles southwards, and thus much hotter and drier. It is not true desert but classed as an intermdiate zone. The trees wre small and there were lots of huge cactuses plus the occasionl pretty flower.
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