Day 31- Cajon del Maipo

We decided we had had enough of the city, so we loaded up the Land Rover and went for a drive. We headed towards a nice mountain area called Cajón del Maipo (Box of Maipo). Its an awesome retreat from the city that gave us magnificent Mountain views, rain and snow, a huge waterfall, some off roading, and hot thermal pools.

It’s a short easy drive and well worth it for the scenery, we originally intended to hike around a volcano, but it started to snow. We did however pick up two hitchhikers, who were going camping… no one else slowed down so we gave them a ride, they had to squish in back on top of the bed with their gear, so they were the first to test the beds wight load. We also got to do some off-roading, up a couple paths trying to get close to the waterfall that we could see from the road. 

Niki on the left

Niki on the right

Niki was mostly excited about finding her mittens during the nike towards the waterfall, as her face clearly communicates!

We then thought we might try some of the hot thermal springs since we were up there, but the snow was getting really bad so we headed back.

One of the funniest things was all the little snowmen on cars. Snow is not common in Santiago so they would drive up, honestly we saw more than 200 cars going up there while it was getting dark, the roads aren't very good, and we saw very few suv's. But the locals would drive up make a small snowman and put him on their hood and drive home with it!