Sunday, April 22, 2012

Subduction!

Hi!
It feels like I haven't been blogging for a long time. Anyway, after we landed in Santiago we took a flight to Punta Arenas (LA 097) which arrived at 5:20PM. Then we stayed at a hotel there until midnight when we took a bus from there to go to Torres del Paine National Park. The bus arrived at about 6 AM. We then looked around the national park and saw this:

Photo: Andes Mountain peaks
This is caused by subduction of the Nazca plate under the South american plate as I explained in my previous post. The mountains will keep growing taller as the plates continue to subduct. We looked around the national park for almost the whole day and then at 11 PM we took the bus back to Punta Arenas airport which arrived there at 5 AM. Then we took a flight back to Santiago which    arrived at 9:25 AM (LA 096). We are here in Pudahuel airport right now waiting for our flight to Paris which departs at 3:50 PM. There is nothing to do but blog and explore the airport. 

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