Walk along the shores of the salty beach: Lake Epecuén in the south of Buenos Aires.

On the penultimate day of our trip to the south of Buenos Aires we took a walk that was not in our initial plans. One of my aunts suggested that we were near an interesting town, and as soon as we googled what it was about, we didn't hesitate to go there. We all arranged our commitments to have another day off and it was really worth it when we went to that peculiar place ❤️.

From Sierra de La Ventana we go to this place called Epecuén. It took us a little more than two hours to arrive: our idea was to go and stay in that town for the last night and then return the next day in the early hours of the morning. I was very excited because this trip was being much more than I imagined in the first place ❤️.

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After leaving our belongings in the hotel we rented, we left for the shores of Lake Epecuén. I had no idea what was in this place, as always I was surprised and waited to be there to see what was there. And my surprise was great when the first thing we began to see was a forest that seemed to be on fire.

But in reality what we were seeing were not burned trees but dehydrated trees. When we got to the shores of the lake, what we saw was totally new to me: a beach full of salt that destroyed everything around it.

The particularity of this lake is that it has a very high salinity level, almost as high as the Dead Sea. That is why everything on its coast is salt and creates a landscape that looks like a dream (in my opinion ).

The ones that didn't have a great time were my slippers: walking on that floor was like stepping on pure coarse salt. I have to admit that all of this scared me a little because in parts it looked like quicksand as you stepped on and sank.

Anyway, I dared to approach the shore to touch the water. It was not as cold as I came to think, and of course I did taste a bit to see if it was really salty. Well, I didn't want to be left with that question .

By way of decoration, in the lake there was a large log dehydrated by salt. It was amazing to see this naturally produced almost ash effect. I wonder how long it took him to be completely consumed.

There was also a nice poster to take a picture and have your friends believe you were there. Everyone believed that we were in a place with snow because of our coat, hardly anyone knew about this place on our social networks. Okay, we went south, but not far enough to get to the snow .

It made me very happy to go to that place: I felt like a little girl discovering something totally new because I didn't even know that in our province we had a place as great as this. They say that in the summer people go swimming here: that would be a wonderful experience, hopefully one day I can go back and get in the water. I can't imagine how hard my hair would get due to the large amount of salt in the water, but I wouldn't hesitate to take a dip anyway .

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