{"id":201537,"date":"2024-05-15T13:54:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T12:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/?p=201537"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:17:10","slug":"the-marble-caves-of-aysen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/the-marble-caves-of-aysen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayaking to the Marble Caves of Aysen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What lifts a place from the picturesque to the beautiful? And what is it about that place that makes a traveller want to grab a hashtag and start posting their pictures on Instagram? In recent years, travellers to Chile both on the road and online have been hearing a lot about the Marble Caves in Aysen. On a recent trekking trip to the region I went to experience them for myself to see if they were more than how they measured up against the rest of Aysen\u2019s spectacular scenery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What and where are the Marble Caves?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Describing the Marble Caves is simplicity itself \u2013 everything is in the name. The caves are formed from exposed cliffs of marble, which is really just a type of limestone with great swirls of colour rippling through it like mineral ice cream. They sit on the waters of Lake General Carrera and are only accessible by boat: the cliffs they&#8217;re part of plunge straight into the lake. Over millennia, the gentle action of the waves has carved caves and grottoes out of the marble, creating improbable shapes out of solid stone, all run through with colours that were first set down millions of years ago when the cliffs were part of an ancient seabed way back in the Jurassic era.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043706-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043706-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043706-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043706-855x481.jpg 855w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043706-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043706-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043706-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043706-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043706-1980x1114.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kayaks along the shoreline of Lake General Carrera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Marble Caves themselves aren\u2019t quite that ancient. In fact, they\u2019re thought to only be about 6200 years old. That makes them fresh and new not just in geological terms, but also for Aysen\u2019s human history. The Tehuelche people who were the region\u2019s first inhabitants had already been here for several thousand years before the changing water levels of the lake began patiently sculpting the marble.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake General Carrera lies in northern Chilean Patagonia. Its waters straddle the border with Argentina, where it\u2019s known as Lake Buenos Aires (in Chile we celebrate General Jos\u00e9 Miguel Carrera as one of our most important leaders in the war of independence from Spanish rule in the early 19th century). I arrived at the lake by travelling down the famed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/chile\/aysen\/carretera-austral\">Carretera Austral highway<\/a> that runs down Chile\u2019s southern spine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044157-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Kayaking at the Marble Caves in Aysen\" class=\"wp-image-201550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044157-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044157-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044157-855x481.jpg 855w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044157-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044157-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044157-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044157-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044157-1980x1114.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Approaching the caves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was staying at Villa Cerro Castillo on the edge of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/chile\/aysen\/cerro-castillo\">Cerro Castillo National Park<\/a> for some trekking. This was a little further away than most people do it, who stay in the gateway town of Puerto Tranquilo, often at the pretty lakefront cabins of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/chile\/aysen\/hotels\/mirador-guadal\">El Mirador de Guadal<\/a>, a Swoop favourite.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lake is truly at the heart of this part of Aysen. Although it\u2019s the Marble Caves that first draw many people\u2019s attention here, Cerro Castillo offers world class trekking that rivals even Torres del Paine (but without the people), while a short distance away to the south is Patagonia National Park, one of Chile\u2019s great recent conservation success stories. Slightly to the east, there\u2019s San Rafael glacier, which emerges improbably from a rainforest straight into a dramatic fjord. It\u2019s the sort of wild landscape that Aysen specialises in, and a reminder that even if your first plan is the Marble Caves, they\u2019re only one part of a much bigger package that this region has to offer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Exploring by kayak<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a couple of options for seeing the Marble Caves. The first is to take one of the small boats that carry about half a dozen passengers each from the dock at Puerto Tranquilo. Wanting to explore under my own power, I joined a group of three other travellers and took to the water by kayak instead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044013-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044013-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044013-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044013-855x481.jpg 855w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044013-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044013-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044013-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044013-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638044013-1980x1114.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Paddling around the Marble Caves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After checking all our kit (everything was provided) and getting a safety briefing from our guide, we pushed off from Puerto Tranquilo beach. I was in a single kayak, but there was also the option of twin and sit on top kayaks as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We spent a while paddling around the bay so that the guide could make sure she was happy with our technique, before heading out to the caves. We stuck fairly close to the shore where it was more sheltered. It\u2019s worth mentioning here that Puerto Tranquilo has its own little microclimate that makes it more reliably sunny and warm than many other parts of Patagonia. But the water in the lake is incredibly cold! It\u2019s very easy to look at the photos and be tricked into thinking that you\u2019re somewhere tropical. But as soon as you trailed a hand in the water you got a sharp reminder that Lake General Carrera is fed by glacial meltwater. This wasn\u2019t somewhere for an idle swim \u2013 not without a good wetsuit at least.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1762-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1762-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1762-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1762-855x481.jpeg 855w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1762-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1762-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1762-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1762-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1762-1980x1113.jpeg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The natural buttresses of the Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But glacier water also has its own cold magic. It has an unusually high mineral content, full of the same microscopic calcium compounds that help make up the marble. This gives it an unusually bright and glassy appearance under sunlight. In the bright sun, the whole lake was an incredible shining turquoise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Into the Marble Caves<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We were blessed with a particularly calm day, which meant a gentle paddle of around 30 minutes to get to the caves, though on a windy day we would have had to put our backs into it a little more. Approaching them by kayak definitely felt worth it, as we had the sense of getting to discover them ourselves, right on the waterline. If you want to do this, I\u2019d suggest taking a kayak tour first thing in the morning, before the motorboat tours start running. The caves don\u2019t ever get crowded, but there\u2019s an extra buzz in having them to yourselves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1765-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1765-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1765-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1765-855x481.jpeg 855w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1765-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1765-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1765-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1765-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_1765-1980x1113.jpeg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Inside the Marble Caves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We made our way along the marble cliffs until we came to the caves themselves. There are three main formations \u2013 one free standing and two dug into the actual cliffs. The free standing one is like a giant mushroom sculpted from marble, topped with vegetation that hangs over its sides. This is the Chapel (Capilla de M\u00e1rmol), that you see reproduced in the tourist literature to such an extent that it\u2019s become a visual shorthand for all the caves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we approached, we could see how the waters had eroded away the bottom of the rock, so that it looked like the whole thing was resting on skinny tapering legs. In one place a complete passageway had been created so that we could see through to the far shore of the lake, though it was a little too narrow to navigate by kayak.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Swoop-Patagonia-Marble-Caves-Aysen-blog-header-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Swoop-Patagonia-Marble-Caves-Aysen-blog-header-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Swoop-Patagonia-Marble-Caves-Aysen-blog-header-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Swoop-Patagonia-Marble-Caves-Aysen-blog-header-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Swoop-Patagonia-Marble-Caves-Aysen-blog-header-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Swoop-Patagonia-Marble-Caves-Aysen-blog-header-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Swoop-Patagonia-Marble-Caves-Aysen-blog-header-1200x600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Swoop-Patagonia-Marble-Caves-Aysen-blog-header-1980x990.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Capturing the Instagram moment in the Marble Caves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we contemplated whether or not we could try, our guide reminded us that the caves are protected, and it\u2019s forbidden to climb or touch them. When tourists first started to visit them, people used to get out of their boats and scramble around the caves and even break pieces off them for souvenirs. Thankfully those days are over, and we were regularly reminded not to get too close, to avoid damage by accidentally striking them with our paddles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043998-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043998-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043998-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043998-855x481.jpg 855w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043998-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043998-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043998-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043998-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1709638043998-1980x1114.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One final circumnavigation of the Chapel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, the best thing about the caves was just quietly floating through and around them. From the Chapel, we explored the Cathedral (Catedral de M\u00e1rmol) and the Cave (Caverna de M\u00e1rmol). Here, we could get under the cliff itself to where the erosion was even more dramatic. Great walls of marble had been reduced to columns we could drift past, and then to strangely swirling buttresses that really did make the caves feel like a natural church.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was where I discovered that what makes the Marble Caves special is a combination of three things. Rock and water are the first two, but it was the third that tied everything together. The same light that made the lake so impossibly turquoise now bounced around inside the caves, rippling off the water and the marble to paint a constantly changing picture. It was a complete delight.\u00a0<br>After quietly bobbing up and down with the gentle lap of the water, we lifted our paddles and turned back to Puerto Tranquilo. It seemed like a good name: Aysen is one of Chile\u2019s great untamed destinations and full of opportunities to make your own adventure, but a couple of hours at the caves had been a lovely way to recharge between hikes. <em>Muy tranquilo<\/em>. Very calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What lifts a place from the picturesque to the beautiful? And what is it about that place that makes a traveller want to grab a hashtag and start posting their pictures on Instagram? 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