We arrived in the evening to the hippie paradise of El Bolson. First impressions: thereās an artisan market with tons of handcrafted goods, slack lines are set up in the square with a high line across the little pond in the center, people are lounging in the lawn in the shade of the trees. Someone is spinning fire within a drum circle. Half shaved heads, dreadlocks, headscarves and lots of crystals, a hippie town indeed!
Semi Circumnavigation
A detour on our journey to El Bolson broke up what would have been a 24 hour bus ride, and allowed us to visit a special place highly recommended by a friend: the marble caves. Getting to the marble caves was trickier than expected, and resulted in nearly circumnavigating a lake with two names: Lago General Carrera or Lago Buenos Aires as named by Chile and Argentina.