Same thng happening here as in my handwritten diary: Falling weeks behind simply because there is TOO MUCH happening! It''s already late in the evening (night) and I should be in bed because tomoroow we want to get up and go early. Nahuel Huapi is waiting, the longest (and most difficult) trek so far. JIBBI!!!!!

Anyway, Puyehue was great. On Thursday the sun shone in a sky with NO cloud at all. We were lazy and left on the short side trp to the ""small"" field of hot springs (woouldn''t ever call the geothermal field we found small, by any standard, but Lonely Planet people obviously have seen and done it all and are impressed by nothing)at noon, and whiled away 8 hours (i.e. the whole day) in this fantastic area. What views, my oh my. Took a shortcut back to the tent and discovered that this ""brilliant"" shortcut meant us providing the group of Australians who had arrived at Los Banos during the day with evening entertainment as we waded the river... up to the chest more or less :)

Friday was supposed to be TERRIBLE, with a path impossible to find and heavy forest and and and. Everyone seems to think things are impossible here. We found the trail without any problems at all (it helped that we''d seen it from our shortcut the day before...) and the impassable forest wasn''t that impassable at all, my trousers didn;t even have to battle any branches (even if I discovered at least 50 new ways of falling and ending on your head with the backpack thrusting your face into the mud... each of us gave the other one a good laugh every now and then). However, we didn''t reach the end of that days planned walk, it simply got dark and we camped close to some logger''s spot. Were woken on Saturday morning by a breakfast party of some birds who sent half-eaten berries down onto the tent (and shat on it, of course) and as we peered out of the tent we were met by a puzzled bull trying to make its way through the forest and not expecting to see a weird yellow something blocking the way. It showed admirable dexterity avoiding us...

More later!!