Big Family Trip

My best holydays was 11 years ago, when I was 14, my whole family and I traveled to Coyhaique to visit some aunts who lives there. My grandparents flew directly to Coyhaique, but me and my brothers and sister drove with my parents to Puerto Montt then we took a ship where we park the car inside, and share a room. We travel by the sea for 2 days until we finally arrived to Puerto Chacabuco in Puerto Aysen, then we drove for 45 minutes to get to the city of Coyhaique.

This holydays were specials, because the entire family was there, we visited a lot of places near Coyhaique, the most important place that we visited that time, was the marble caverns in Puerto Tranquilo, the caverns are like a maze under a island, you can go inside of them, we pay for a boat and rowed across the lake until we get to the caverns, then we travel inside of that maze, it was wonderful. Another good experience was the food, we tasted a lot of good meet, in particular lamb meet, we saw how the “Asado Parado” was cooked, the lamb is place in a cross, totally extended, and then this cross is nailed on the ground, around the fire. This preparation takes like 5 or 6 hours to be ready to eat, and the experience to be there with the people of the Patagonia, drinking and talking about their stories was amazing.

Sadly the holidays are not forever, and my family and I, come back to Talagante, but the return wasn´t bad, because we traveled by ship again, for 2 days. It´s incredible be in the middle of nowhere, surrounded of water, enjoying the clean air y quiet space, I hope can go soon to the amazing places that we have in the south, maybe the next time I can complete the austral road.