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Besides breakfast, lunch and dinnerwhich should be provided by the tour operator you should always bring some extra snacks. On trekking tours the best options are easy-to-pack high nutritional value cereal bars, cookies, dried fruit, chocolate, peanuts or glucose tablets.
You must drink at least 2 liters of liquid or more per day. Carrying 20-liter-barrels of water per person on a 10-day trek is hardly doable! Ask your operator how often and where will you be refilling your water bottles during the trip. In Central and Southern Chile, this should not be a problem. Although most creeks along the Andes carry fresh drinking water, you should ask before filling your bottle or boil it for 10 minutes before consumption.
Caution: at 1000 m altitude, water boils below 100°C. Therefore; germs may not be completely removed. If required, add water-cleaning pills (although not really healthy, use only in case of emergency). Water filters by Katadyn (www.katadyn.com) are preferable. Although expensive, these ceramic or charcoal-activated filters guarantee tasteless, germ-free water. Order them at drugstores or online. To add taste to water and retain mineral balance, we recommend carrying mineral tablets or powdered juice sachets.
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