[ENG|LATINO] Hitchhiked 293 km in Patagonia to Reach Thermal Pools "El Sauce" | Hicimos dedo 293 km para llegar a las Termas "El Sauce"

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Despite the news trying to make us feel like our possibilities of movement have been restricted due to the covid social manipulation, I’m positive there are many places in the world where you can still move around freely. Probably anywhere if you’re willing to take some risks 😉

I’m blessed to live in such a place. Along with the magical, beautiful, and wise partner that popped into my life, we hitchhiked to a place that has thermal waters so we could relax a bit from the freezing cold that hits our homes this time of year.

Our journey started on a very cold morning, with the frost under each step. Worse even, we were shadowed by the mountains on the road and didn’t receive any sunlight. Gratefully we only waited around 20 minutes before the first car picked us up.

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This was our meeting point, a sculpture in honor to yerba mate, which as you can guess is very important to the local culture. Notice all the frozen grass, I'm not exaggerating about how cold it was.

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The people who took us worked for a phone company and had to do some maintenance to an antenna that was located in a rural area that could only be accessed by crossing a river on horseback. Picture that. Even common jobs are an adventure in this part of the world.

Next car was an engineer who had a kind personality, but nothing too memorable about that part of the ride. Still, it was good to keep hopping into the cars of positive and cheerful people. We were left at a crossing and by that time the rays of the sun were giving some warmth which felt like an extreme blessing after so much cold.

It didn’t take long for a truck to offer the next part of the ride and this time it was a couple of guys who worked in robotics for the salmon industry. A lot of the ride, conversation was the driver defending that industry and saying how people had the wrong idea about them. Personally, I have a lot of evidence of how destructive that business is and I confess getting pissed at one moment.

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We stopped at a shop and while we waited, my partner made me see it wasn’t so important to argue, and once I let him have his way and then we passed to more interesting things such as plants of power and shamanism. Hard to believe that very guy who was so invested in the system had once produced his own DMT at home! Also, he came back from the shop with some juices for us and that was a pretty friendly gesture.

We were left at the beginning of the National Park Queulat, which has to be crossed to reach La Junta from Coyhaique. The place is insane, water flowing all around and huge native trees to keep you gazing through and through.

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Once again we were picked up by a nice guy. We didn’t talk much but he was listening to Pink Floyd which was an awesome soundtrack for the ride.

We arrived at Puyuhuapi and this became the hardest part. Not many cars were passing by and we had to wait nearly three hours. Since the place is surrounded by hills, the sun had hidden by 15:30. It became very cold and we started dancing to shake it off. Must of looked like total whackos to those who passed by. And we are crazy, beautifully crazy to go against fear and dance our way through Life. 🤘

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After a while dancing wasn’t enough though. So we started walking until we reached a bus stop. Mood was starting to feel fragile but luckily we had medicine for that. A beer, a joint, and a short meditation got us manifesting a ride after some minutes. This time it was a big truck that took us the rest of the way. It was really nice to have experienced cool people in every ride, we were feeling very happy and grateful once we arrived.

Next day we visited the thermal pools and enjoyed the blessings of Mother Nature, in a beautiful place as you can see in the pictures, surrounded by wild vegetation.

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As you can see, everything was really nice and well kept. We also had the fortune of having the pools all for ourselves 😁. The price was very accessible (13 USD approx) This was definitely the therapy needed, both for the body pains as for the cold. When we came out we no longer felt the cold in our bodies for quite a while, sort of like our bones had warmed up deep within.

Personally, I regained a sense of enjoying Life, I had been too focused on building and accomplishing missions, but taking very little time to just sit back and relax.

We also visited a man known as “Compañero Vera” (Sergio Vera) and María Ester Rozas, life companions who live at the north exit of town. The Compañero got famous when shown in a national TV show because of his know-how on making hydro-turbines to generate electric power from water flows. We had been told about him by the guy at the pools and also we checked out a TV show where he had been visited and interviewed. We spent a very entertaining and stimulating afternoon drinking wine and talking about all kinds of things at his house, alongside his wife.

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All in all it was a very pleasant trip, we really enjoyed every moment. If you’re thinking of ever coming to southern Chile, the thermal pools are called “Termas El Sauce”. Also, if you need to grab some food in La Junta, you can look up Boca Floja La Junta on Facebook. They’re mainly fast food but I recommend them because they are willing to prepare vegan versions of their meals if you ask them, something which is hard to get in that part of the world.

Hope you’ve enjoyed this little adventure. It was my vacation from the work I’ve been doing at the forest shelter since the cold and physical effort where starting to make my body hurt everywhere, and I really needed to restore energies. Stay blessed, and don’t let any plandemics screw up your freedom!

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A pesar de que las noticias intentan hacernos sentir que nuestras posibilidades de movimiento son restringidas debido a la farsa del Covid, estoy seguro de que hay muchos lugares en el mundo donde todavía puedes moverte libremente. Probablemente en cualquier lugar si estás dispuest- a correr algunos riesgos 😉

Tengo la suerte de vivir en un lugar así. Junto a la bella y mágica compañera que apareció en mi vida, hicimos dedo hasta un lugar que tiene aguas termales para poder relajarnos un poco del frío gélido que golpea nuestras casas en esta época del año.

Aquí nos reunimos y se puede ver lo escarchado que estaba.

Nuestro viaje comenzó en una mañana fría, con la escarcha debajo de cada pisada. Peor aún, estábamos ensombrecidos por las montañas en la carretera y no recibíamos luz solar. Afortunadamente, solo esperamos unos 20 minutos antes de que el primer auto nos recogiera.

Quienes nos llevaron trabajaban para una telefonica y tuvieron que hacer un mantenimiento a una antena que estaba ubicada en una zona rural a la que solo se podía acceder cruzando un río a caballo. Imagínate eso. Incluso los trabajos comunes son una aventura en esta parte del mundo.

Un segundo auto nos dejó en un cruce y en ese momento los rayos del sol estaban dando un calor que fue una bendición después del frío.

No pasó mucho tiempo para que una camioneta ofreciera la siguiente parte del viaje y esta vez fue gente que trabajaba en robótica para la industria del salmón. Gran parte del trayecto, la conversación fue el conductor defendiendo esa industria y diciendo cómo la gente tenía una idea equivocada sobre ellos. Personalmente, tengo mucha evidencia de lo destructivo que es ese negocio y confieso haber sentido un poquito de tensión porque el respondía todas las preguntas con su visión y no datos concretos.

Paramos en una tienda y mientras esperábamos, la compa me hizo ver que no era tan importante discutir, y una vez lo dejé salirse con la suya, pasamos a cosas más interesantes como plantas de poder y chamanismo. Me costó creer que ese mismo loco que estaba tan empeñando en defender al sistema había producido una vez su propio DMT en casa 😅

Nos quedamos al inicio del Parque Nacional Queulat, que hay que cruzar para llegar a La Junta desde Coyhaique. El lugar es un paraíso, el agua fluye por todas partes y los enormes árboles nativos te mantienen mirando de principio a fin. Caminamos un rato y nos sacamos fotos mientras tratabamos de parar un auto. Al ratito nos llevó una camioneta.

Llegamos a Puyuhuapi y esto se convirtió en la parte más difícil. No pasaban muchos vehículos y tuvimos que esperar casi tres horas. Como el lugar está rodeado de cerros, el sol se había escondido a las 15:30. Hacía mucho frío y empezamos a bailar para poner la sangre en movimiento. Debimos parecer un-s loc-s totales a los que pasaban. Y estamos loc-s, maravillosamente loc-s para ir contra el miedo y bailar nuestro camino a través de la Vida.

Después de un tiempo, bailar no fue suficiente, así que empezamos a caminar hasta llegar a un paradero techado. Se nos empezó a ir el ánimo y lo que parecía un viaje perfecto hasta el momento se empezó a oscurecer. Afortunadamente teníamos medicina para eso: cna cerveza, un porro y una breve meditación nos hicieron manifestar el rescate de un camionero después de unos minutos. Pa' que decir lo felices que llegamos.

Al día siguiente visitamos las piscinas termales y disfrutamos de las bendiciones de la Madre Naturaleza, en un lugar alucinante como se puede ver en las fotografías, rodeado de vegetación salvaje.

Como ven, todo ordenado y bien mantenido, además de rodeado de hermosa vegetación nativa. Pa' más suerte, tuvimos las piscinas para nosotr-s sol-s jiji. Encima de todo el precio fue más que accessible, 10 lucas por persona.

Esta era la terapia que necesitaba, tanto para mis dolores corporales como para el frío. Cuando salimos había una sensación cálida por dentro, como si los mismos huesos se hubiesen templado.

Personalmente, sentí que recuperé esa sensación de disfrute de la vida, ya que había estado muy obsesionado con los deberes y cumplir misiones, sin darme tiempo para solo estar y ser.

También visitamos a al “Compañero Vera” (Sergio Vera) y María Ester Rozas, compañer-s que viven a la salida norte del pueblo. El compañero se hizo famoso en "Lugares Que Hablan" ya queue sabe hacer hidro-turbinas para generar energía eléctrica a partir de los caudales de agua. El dueño de las piscinas nos había hablado de él y también vimos el programa de televisión en el que lo habían visitado y entrevistado. Pasamos la tarde conversandola con un vinito, analizando la vida, el sistema, y el camino a la libertad.


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Disfrutamos mucho cada momento. Si estás pensando en venir alguna vez al sur de Chile, las piscinas termales se llaman "Termas El Sauce". Además, si necesitas comer algo en La Junta, puedes buscar Boca Floja La Junta en Facebook. Son principalmente comida rápida pero los recomiendo porque están dispuestos a preparar versiones veganas de sus comidas si les preguntas, algo que es difícil de conseguir en esa parte del mundo.

Espero que hayas disfrutado de esta pequeña aventura. Fue un descansito del trabajo que se ha estado haciendo en el refugio del bosque desde que el frío comenzó a hacer que mi cuerpo doliera en todas partes, y realmente necesitaba recuperar energías. Bendiciones, y no permitan que ninguna plandemia arruine su libertad.

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Sounds like a great day! Thanks for taking us along. I think I'd like to try those pools, though I'm not sure they're a reason to visit Chile on their own. Though, the pools and the forest shelter together...hmmm.

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Well, if you ever visit we go around and the do the whole tour, ok? 🙌

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I can imagine how good that warm water felt after that journey and all the cold weather.

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It can only be described as heaven 😇

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