Laguna Azul

une merveilleuse image !!!

Merci beaucoup, Thérèse!

Schöner Farbverlauf im Wasser, aber auch sonst wieder sehr schön. Mein Neffe und meine Nichte waren jetzt im Oktober da und haben noch ein paar Schneestürme erlebt. Fantastische Gegend!

Herzlichen Dank, Lutz! Ja, die Gegend ist absolut umwerfend! Das mit dem Schneesturm kann ich nachvollziehen, hatte ich mal im Februar! Losgelaufen bei Sonnenschein und im Schneeschauer angekommen;-)
Ich habe hier auch schon meterhohe Fontänen in den Seen gesehen, vom Wind hochgewirbelt...

Ganz große Klasse. Die Farben des Sees sind faszinierend. Tolle Gegend.

Herzlichen Dank, cammino! Patagonien war immer schon ein Traumreiseziel von mir!

Bravoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Merci beaucoup, Georges!

...oh Du wundervolle Welt!!!

Tausend Dank, Lothar! Das ist eine meiner Lieblingslandschaften...

Superbe !

Merci beaucoup, ColRam!

A lovely scene, I can almost feel the wind. :-)

Many thanks! The wind is quite notorious, because it comes from both sides, the Pacific and the Atlantic;-)

¡No está azul hoy! ;)

Indeed! It's the wind's fault;-) There's also a Laguna Verde in the park which didn't look green when I was there;-)

Wonderful landscape with their inevitable clouds.

Thank you, Jaap! Because of the wind the clouds didn't stay in one place too long- you could see the Torres every now and then.

Missed them completely.

That is a pity! But distances are so vast that you can't see everything in one visit.

The sky + the distant mountains are undoubtedly a superb view but I love also the colour of the lake.

Thanks a lot! As the name says this lake usually is blue, but the wind changed that into something much more interesting.-)

Rough and wild beauty. I can feel the wind there... and I can imagine how difficult it would be to get there on the bike. ;-)

Thanks a lot, Tom! The climate is rather rough though it can also be warm. out of the wind;-) It never lasts long though... Wind is a challenge down there, in summer it blows all the time- from 60-120 kmh!

Hmmm... I have to choose the route of travel according to prevailing winds direction! Being driven by 120 km/h wind from the back - than I can make speed of 50 km even on flat parts of the road! But going against it - almost impossible...

Well, in Argentinean Patagonia the wind usually comes down from the cordillera - west to east. It's because of the temperature difference between the ice fields and the hot dry steppe.
Torres del Paine is more complicated because it is the first place where wind from the Pacific finds a way to the Atlantic, so it's open to all sides, depending on where exactly you are, of course.

You'll find campgrounds in Patagonia are always in sheltered wooded areas- otherwise your tent will fly away;-)

da waren wir am 3.2., sind gerade zurück aus Patagonien ;-))
es war ordentlich stürmisch!

Das war sicher super. ich will auch wieder mal hin! Ich komme auch gerade von 3 Sturmtiefs hintereinander aus Norwegen zurück;-)

Ah wieder zurück! Sturmtiefs bieten ja meist auch tolle Motive (hoffentlich)........