Sunday 2nd November – Vicuna to Socos
After a relaxing few days in Vicuna we continued our journey South on one of the mountain roads. When I say one of the mountain roads here, the road was more like a track and, at some parts, very worrying with great drops to the sides. It was proper 4 x 4 territory, if only for the necessary ground clearance, and was very slow in terms of covering any distance. Coupled with this, and me thinking I was going to die every few seconds, was the sheer beauty of the place. There was little in terms of places but there was the occasional house or hut and herds of goats. At one point I spotted a snake on the road and got Dad to stop so that we could go and look at it. We didn´t get a great look and I didn´t actually want to look too closely as I thought that Dad might have caught it with the tyre.
It took us a long time to get not very far but the views were definitely worth it. After a long trek we got back to the main road and headed to Fray Jorge National Park. Unfortunately the park was closing so we decided to take the short drive South to Termos de Socos where we had stayed previously. Instead of staying in the hotel we opted for the campsite which had a lovely big pool which we quickly took advantage of.