In July, I took the most exciting trip yet. I traveled to the very tip of South America (right above Antartica). Punta Arenas is very similar to the state of Alaska because of the severe cold tempretures in winter and the amount of daylight depending on the seasons. During the winter in Punta Arenas and in Alaska it is no sunlight for nearly the entire day, and in summer it sunny and bright for almost the 24 hours! I went to Punta Arenas in winter, so it was dark outside for most of the day. Did I mention it was also freeeeeezing cold too?? During my stay I had a chance to visit Torres del Paine, Chile's National Park. It was a breathtaking park, filled with natural beauty. I saw blue glaciers which means they could be hundreds or thousands of years old. They are blue because they are made up of mostly ice and hardly any water. The only color that the glacier can absorb is the color blue! I also got to know a Punta Arenas blizzard. It was amazing, windy, powerful, beautiful and of course very white. I even got to see a snowman making competetion. But these were no ordinary snowmen - one family constructed a life-size horse made of good-old-fashioned-100%-genuine snow.
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