Cinnamon trunks
Smooth and twisted.
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Los Arrayanes National Park covers the Quetrihué peninsula on Lake Nahuel Huapi, near the town of Villa La Angostura, and was created in 1971 to protect a rare forest of arrayán trees. At the peninsula's southern tip stands a small grove of about twenty hectares of these trees, some three hundred years old or more, and a few past six hundred. Arrayanes are known for their smooth, cinnamon-coloured trunks, cool to the touch and twisted into strange shapes, which make the place feel like a fairy-tale wood. A wooden walkway winds between them to protect their roots and fragile soil. The forest is reached by boat across the lake from Bariloche or Villa La Angostura, often combined with Isla Victoria, or on foot or by bike along a hilly trail of about 12 kilometres from the park entrance. It makes a full day trip from Bariloche.
Smooth and twisted.
Among the trees.
Across Lake Nahuel Huapi.
Quetrihué peninsula, near Villa La Angostura
By boat across the lake from Puerto Pañuelo, often combined with Isla Victoria, or by road to Villa La Angostura and then about 12 km on foot or by bike.