good morning good morning world morning guys another beautiful day in el bolson

not a cloud in the sky and I say it seems to be the theme today is an

outdoorsy adventure day we're going to be doing some hiking actually this

particular hike is probably considered the most like must hike must experience

most experience is hiked with el bolson yes it's called Cerro Piltriquitrón

thrown yes a bit of a tongue twister apparently the name means mountains

hanging from the clouds very poetic we took a rural road to get here is a 40

minute drive what you do need to know is that a place that you can't miss here is

El Bosque Tallado which is a forest with sculptures basically there was a forest

fire many years ago and they decided to bring an artist to create sculptures

with these burnt tree trunks so that's gonna be our first stop of the day yeah

and then some more hiking so let's be on our way it's good

so a bit of information for any of you wanting to do this same excursion kind

of independently basically we went to the tourist office and asked if they had

any suggestions on how we could get to Bosque tallado and they said there's a

shuttle service that happens once in a while during low season it is everyday

if you're here during the summer but basically it's this van that departs

from the main square they take you up the mountain then you have about four or

five hours here and they pick you up again bring you back into town so I mean

what is that like eight dollars eight nine dollars yeah so super easy to

arrange the they'll give you like a little brochure at the tourist office

with a phone number that you have to message on whatsapp and you just ask the

guy like hey are there any departures for tomorrow or the coming days and he

gathers a little group together and when he has enough people you guys go up the

mountain so yeah we just had to wait one day until they had a departure which

isn't bad considering its low season so yeah it was a 40-minute drive up two

dirt roads super scenic he goes as far as you can get with the vehicle and we

are pretty high up if you can see from the mountains behind me let's get going

so we've got the sign right here pointing us towards the forest with all

the sculptures Bosque Tallado we've been told it'll take about 40 minutes to get

there which isn't bad yeah I'm looking forward to this and

right away we have more information on the trail so once again a reminder forty

minutes a hundred pesos per person we are on our

way

it's hot today like this yeah so steep three-quarters of the way there now 250

meters yeah 10 minutes ago so the path itself is very easy but the

the altitude does make you tired if you're out of shape like a

we are in the forest surrounded by really cool sculptures so many different

styles and messages admission here was 100 pesos I think I mentioned that on

the way up yeah it's kind of like a little circuit through the forest you

just walk around all the sculptures are numbered and you can see who the artist

was where he was from the year of the sculpture

so yeah it's super super cool and all of these sculptures are done on trees that

burned down during the fire or fell down or or somehow destroyed you're gonna buy

El Bolson you can't miss this place

so we just finished visiting bosque tallado

again this is unbelievable we are now gonna hike up to a few a fool here being

refugio piltriquitron it's kind of like a little Hut or you can get some snacks here it

says they have artisanal beer hot chocolate sandwiches homemade bread

pizzas Welsh cake and a little kiosk reeking out some snacks like how hungry

are you I'm ready for it I'm ready for it too

so guys we made it we made it to the little fool here refuge it's like a

little hut you can sleep overnight here like a lot

of people like hardcore backpackers campers hikers you know with all their

gear spend the night here and do more hikes we're just here for food yeah

first things first we just ordered some wonderful meat empanadas Welsh cake we

haven't had this since we were in Gaiman we got a toasted ham and cheese sandwich

looks like homie tort is no bread looks wonderful and one thing I have to

mention all the food you see here these people have to carry it up the mountain

they check it out first of all it's like a 40-minute drive

into the highest point on the mountain that you can reach with a car yeah it's

about an hour hike here it's all on their backs or sometimes

with courses when needed so the fact that we can enjoy a meal here is so

appreciate that how are the empanadas delicious these are homemade like I'm

pretty sure these are made right here and steamed with the bread well this is

amazing you can't get stuff like this in the city

um I'm standard to try this little one all that cheese I know they do not

forget about I think chunk of him this isn't like the little son reaches the

amiga this is knowing well I guess the they're kidding catering towards hikers

who've been burning a lot of calories they don't want a little skimpy little

sandwich forget the price for lunch eat US dollars which isn't bad considering

how much effort has gone into getting the food here and preparing it for us

hungry people plus it's delicious it's wonderful there's still dessert took

time to Charlie the Welsh cake guys I'm a Welsh cake we like polished off that

salmon empanada it did not last long we were hungry mmm oh yeah miss dense

but moist its nutty I've got like a brown sugar opera taste

that's the secret ingredient brown sugar

good afternoon we have returned sure half so we came back into town we had I

slept the whole way guy you did I woke you up

and you you you've had enough of an appetite that you just say I'm watching

a slice of cake we shared that we went to

Mitsuki I think it called yeah we've been there a couple times it's been

really good and then we came back here had a siesta and so yeah I guess we

thought we'd share some of our thoughts from the from the hike my thoughts do it

do it I will say it's kind of challenging not because it's a long hike

or anything it's just really steep the whole time so you need to take lots of

breaks you'll want out of put Footwear you'll want to bring water sunscreen

baseball caps so you need to go prepare it otherwise they're gonna be struggling

yeah that's true what I like most about it in terms of like the transportation

we arranged was that we had lots of time we can't live - oh great yeah we could

take photos we had time to have a nice leisurely lunch eaten it was just and

the senior was just incredible if you get lucky and half years like we did in

terms of the visibility I mean you just see el bolson and all of the mountain

ranges yeah and there were a few people in our group who actually made it even

further than we did like we went up to the hut and that was it

but the trail continues to a different viewpoint of it wouldn't look a point of

abuddin a couple of people made it there so yeah you've got when people ended up

staying overnight as well as yeah so you can spend the night there you just pack

your little backpack bring your gear and from the hut - there's a hike that

continues another two and a half hours - like the the summit of that range so

yeah overall fantastic a must do how you can topple some I would agree yeah and

we'll have more adventures from here coming soon from el bolson