They call this National Park the 8th Wonder of the World  and I don't disagree! It was stunning! Lakes, glaciers, majestic peaks it was sooo hard to edit my photos down to these select beauties. Photos changed so much, depending on clouds, sun and fading light in just one spot! You'll notice a lot of burned tree pieces littering some of the landscapes. These are from a huge fire, in December 2011, that burned 70,000 hectares in the Park due to an Israeli tourist who was camping in the park and took a poop in a brown paper bag, (as one does when camping) but he decided to set it on fire in lieu of carrying it out or burying it, like your suppose too! He confessed when he saw how much damage his stupidity caused.

Besides amazing scenery there was a plethora of wildlife. The birds were the easiest to spot, and later in the day we saw a ton of guanaco (kind of like their deer). Interestingly the guanaco travel in packs - with an alpha male and several females and their babies. The young males, who want to become alpha's, travel together until they mature and come up on a pack where they want to challenge the reigning alpha. The winning male in these battles will bite the balls off the defeated male, rendering him a eunuch! Those eunuch guanaco, then travel alone and become Puma bait! We saw a couple of these

eunuch's while we were searching for the elusive pumas. All too no avail. Our guide was diligent with us, having just seen some earlier in the week with another tour group. There is a section of the park where the pumas hunt the guanaco's, it is fairly wide open with few places to hide. We searched a few hours until dusk and 3 of us even came back out at 5 a.m. to give it another look before sunrise, as the Puma are nocturnal hunters. The images at the end were our inspirations from our so called friends and the good spirited guide, who really wanted to make our trip the best!