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Jeep Rides
Tour Nationalpark Conguillio
We leave from the Hotel Andenrose, and travel on gravel roads to wonderful Conguillio National Park, an area of approximately 60.000 hectares, and probably one of the most beautiful parks in Chile. The Park was founded mainly to protect the great araucaria forests remaining still intact in the area.
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| The landscape includes lagoons and lakes, in the midst of which we have a majestic view of ever-smoking Llaima Volcano (3125m), one of Chile`s most active. The trip will take you through a wondrous rain forrest where giant trees more than 2000 years old await you. At the center of the park you can visit a small museum by the national forest administration (CONAF). |
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| From the point, we go on a hike the length of which depends on the interests and whishes of the excursioning group. We then continue on to the lake Conguillio, with the opportunity for the more hardened to go for swim. |
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| After a picnic we continue to the rear side of the volcano, where you will see lava flows as broad as landing strips, and then on to the Truful-Truful waterfall. After that, we will return to the Andenrose. |
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Tour Volcano Lonquimay, Crater Navidad (Reserva Nacional Malalcahuello), Lolco, Valley Bio-Bio. Lonquimay
This is a one-day excursion through a varied and fascinating landscape. We travel past Malallcahuello in the direction of Vulcano Lonquimay, first traversing a mixed forest of leafy trees, and then finding ourselves in the midst of a forest consisting exclusively of araucarias.
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| These giants rise to a height of up to 50 meters. After four kilometers of this forest, the vegetation comes to a sudden end, and we stand amazed before a desert of ashes, at the foot of Vulcano Lonquimay, which at 2865 meters high seems like an oversized dune made of ashes. Our route takes us along the eastern edge of the vulcano and we arrive at Crater Navidad, from which Lonquimay erupted last on December 25, 1988 |
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| We will be able to admire gigantic lava flows formed after that eruption, at the end of which the exuberant vegetation can be seen once again. Further on, we will traverse both native leafy trees and araucaria forest, and enjoy exceptionally beautiful views of the Andes. |
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| After a picnic, we will travel along meadows and forests, descanding to the well-known Valley of the lake Bio-Bio. We will continue along the course of the latter until we arrive to the small town of Lonquimay. To get back to the Andenrose, we go through the tunnel "Las Raices" the longest and hand-hewn tunnel in South America. |
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