I took a bus from Mendoza to Santiago that went down this road. Was pretty crazy at the time but still way less sketchy than the buses going through Bolivia.
This is so strange. I have almost been there… on a work trip where i visited the hydro power plant just 50-100 meters down the road. Had no idea that was there…
Just a site visit as part of a larger trip in the country (some knowledge exchange stuff in a hydro power company i used to work for), so we were visiting several parts of the power plants down the Aconcagua valley among other areas. This was the highest point of that particular part of the trip.
Anyone know where this is?
Edit: Found it! It’s Los Caracoles (The Snails) pass in Chile next to the Argentine border.
Los Caracoles?
It’s Spanish for “The Caracoles”.
I took a bus from Mendoza to Santiago that went down this road. Was pretty crazy at the time but still way less sketchy than the buses going through Bolivia.
I was just going to post the same thing. I took the same bus route and man that was scary at some points looking out the window, over the edge.
This is so strange. I have almost been there… on a work trip where i visited the hydro power plant just 50-100 meters down the road. Had no idea that was there…
What did you do there?
Just a site visit as part of a larger trip in the country (some knowledge exchange stuff in a hydro power company i used to work for), so we were visiting several parts of the power plants down the Aconcagua valley among other areas. This was the highest point of that particular part of the trip.
Sounds like a nice trip!
lots of serpentine roads like that in South America’s Andes, we even have a train that moves back and forth as it sigsags up the mountain
Yep, took one like that going to a ski station in Chile, was mega sick when I arrived