”Parque nacional Los Alerces - פארק לאומי ליד אסקוול“

Parque nacional Los Alerces - A beautiful national park near Esquel. There are 2-3 busses a day from Esquel bus terminal to the park. 

From Puerto Limonao You can take a boat on lago Futalaufquen, Rio Arayanes and lago Verde. Then from the other side of the lake you can take another boat on Lago Menendez, which I recommend especially. You can also take the second boat only, get off the bus in Pasarela and there cross the bridge over rio Arayanes to the place where the second boat leaves. For the 2 boats the price is 40 pesos and for the second boat only it is 26 pesos. The water in both lakes is transparent and you can see their bottom. In lago Menendez you can see a hanging glacier. On the other side of the lake Menendez is a nice walk in the forest to the huge 3000 year old alerce trees.

You can also take a trip with a 4x4 vehicle to the ice tunnel and the sources of the Cascada Yrigoyen, but this is only possible if there is good weather and not too much mud and snow. The jeep an take 4 people and it costs 100 pesos divided between the people who take it. The agency that organizes this is Patagonia Verde in calle 9 de Julio near the corner of 25 de Mayo in Esquel, but maybe there are also other agencies that do it.

Bring your storm suits - the park has 4500 mm of rain annual average, and it rains almost every day. There are a lot of campings in the park but only if you like camping in the rain...