The Circuito Chico is a 35 km loop around Penninsula Llao Llao (pronounced Jau-jua), featuring spectacular views of the many lakes in the area, as well as interesting side hikes and landscape. Below is Michael in the
lenga (a type of southern beech) forest.
Yellow lupine--another oddity!
The moutain cemetery, with one of the many alpine-themed headstones below. This tiny cemetry is set in a high pass, against a backdrop of mountains and waterfalls, and it looks out over one of the lakes. Many of the graves are marked with stones and planted with minature gardens, and also have depictions of climbing or moutains. According to the local Argentine we rented our bikes from, you don´t have to be a mountaineer to be buried here, you just have to love the mountains and want to be close to them..
A beautiful sculpture creates a stained-glass-like frame of one of the famous views of Lago Perito Moreno, with Lago Nahuel Huapi and the Andes in the background.
Look--it is Scot´s Broom (the yellow flowers) gone nuts! Yes, Washingtonians will recognize this exotic species, and it is exotic down here as well (blame those European settlers who always wanted to re-create home wherever they went). But it was ridiculously pretty, as every branch was drooping with bright yellow flowers at the height of their bloom.
A beautiful sculpture creates a stained-glass-like frame of one of the famous views of Lago Perito Moreno, with Lago Nahuel Huapi and the Andes in the background.
Look--it is Scot´s Broom (the yellow flowers) gone nuts! Yes, Washingtonians will recognize this exotic species, and it is exotic down here as well (blame those European settlers who always wanted to re-create home wherever they went). But it was ridiculously pretty, as every branch was drooping with bright yellow flowers at the height of their bloom.
2 comments:
I think Yikes would like this bike ride...how were those bike seats on the rentals?
I think Yikes would like this bike ride...how were those bike seats on the rentals?
-Tracy
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