Chaiten, Chile Travel Blogs

Parque Pumalin
Mar 6, 2006 (6 photos)

... of South America was never settled by significant numbers of South American Indians, and the European settlers didnt even establish Chaiten until the late 1950´s. It is truly a wilderness area. We climb up some wooden ladders that follow the course of ...

Chiloén Churches and Chaitén Cheer
Feb 22, 2005 (20 photos)

... the "absolute musts" on our journey south, and plan our next reunion in Switzerland. Our first campsite overlooked Bahía Chaitén, with Volcán Corcovado (the Humpback) in the distance, and we were again able to watch the dolphins patrolling just offshore and ...

Chaiten
Feb 16, 2007

Alex: We left Coyhaique early for another mammoth trip over dirt road to cover the ridiculously short distance to Chaiten. The scenery was spectacular; lake filled valleys, tree covered hills, glaciers, snow capped mountains. The road was occasionally ...

Chaiten
Jan 6, 2007 (7 photos)

... the night, eating or getting off the province. My emergency fund could not cover all. Fortunately chaiten is also the ferry port to Chiloe,Chile (another province and banking system) and our next planned stop. Upon arrival at the terminal I noticed " ...

Heading south on El Camino Austral.
Dec 7, 2001 (4 photos)

After getting off the ferry in Chaiten, we got a taste of what the population on our bike journey would be like. Chaiten is the largest city between Puerto Montt and Coyhaique with 2000 people, read, not big. But they did have stores for us to stock up ...

Chaiten (or: getting to Chiloe part two)
Feb 26, 2008 (2 photos)

... yard. Apparently, the air force crashed it some years ago and someone decided to convert it into part of their home.   Chaiten lives in almost constant fog, at least to judge by our experience, which disappears just a little inland. But when we ...

Not A Very Good Place
Feb 8, 2008

... a big movie screen (they showed the same movie twice), and toilets that didn't flush.  five hours later we docked in Chaiten, a town with about 3 blocks worth of stores.  by stores, i really mean a few bodegas.  there were no buses out of ...

The saga continues
Feb 25, 2008 (3 photos)

... still fighting over territory with Argentina, where Tompkins also owns land, so was  more  secure. When we got back to Chaiten the fog had finally lifted and we had a great view up the coast to a cone mountain and the sunset. The hills behind ...

Our way down Chile
Feb 2, 2006 (2 photos)

... high above where we had spent the night, hiking on a ridge around the lake and waving to Christian, Fabian, and their dog, Chaiten, down below. By now, we were a little more familiar with the terrain and had a little feel for the rhythm of the ...

Rainy rainforest and millenary old trees
Mar 8, 2006 (2 photos)

... un CD. Il fallait voir son expression, il avait un sourire jusque derrière les oreilles! Rachel m'a soufflé: "You made his day!" Arrivés à Chaitén, Rachel et moi sommes allés à l'hostal Don Carlos, qui à première vue nous a ravies: propret et joli, tout en bois ...

Une ville sous les cendres
Jan 11, 2009 (4 photos)

... synpathique. Malgre le vent fort et frais, le paysage de montagne enneige, nous fait rester sur le pont. En s approchant de chaiten, on apercoit la fumee du volcan qui a provoque l evacuation de la ville en Mai dernier. Il est toujours bien actif et le ...

It's a grey morning and cycling down to the ...
Jan 29, 2003 (5 photos)

... out into the open the low cloud cover obscures the snow-capped peaks that normally stretch right across the eastern horizon. Arrive in Chaiten around noon, and before long have done a tour of the town. It has the feel of a North Canadian frontier town, ...

Chaiten
Nov 18, 2007

... a ticket. The crossing took 5+ hours and we were pitched to and fro and regularly doused with crashing waves. There was a campground in Chaiten but when we arrived the gate was chained and no one was around. This is a very basic outpost and I guess that ...

Start of the Carretara Austral
Mar 26, 2007 (3 photos)

... Our ferry was only a 10 hour ride(that turned into 12) across the Gulf of Ancud to the small 8X10 block town of Chaiten.  This is the beginning of the infamous Carretera Austral, route 7.  Its a 770 mile long gravel road through some of Chile's ...

Chaiten
Feb 7, 2008 (2 photos)

... for the bus station but there were no departures anywhere till tomorrow so we are stuck here in this little nasty town of Chaiten in a nasty campsite with no even ground and loads of rocks, eating nasty food, with a nasty owner of the campsite. We got ...

home sweet home but not!
Feb 23, 2006 (1 photos)

... for a wonderful walk to pumalin park! Located in the tenth region in the province of Palena between Hornopirén and Chaitén, the park consists of approximately 300,000 hectares set aside to be converted into a nature sanctuary and subsequently transferred ...

Chaiten
Mar 6, 2007 (3 photos)

... Montt, which is where we wanted to get to eventually, but they just need to complete a 60km section between there and Chaiten. This place was a transport headache. We arrived on  Sunday evening, about 5pm. We met a couple in Puyuhuapi who told us ...

how long is the caratera austral?!
Apr 30, 2006 (6 photos)

... town of puyuhuapi. i went fishing in the pacific ocean (the chilians call it "chilian sea" as if it is theirs) in chaiten and caught 3 big "rebalos", which saved us buying dinner the next day. these r just "the tip of the tenador" (ktze hamazleg) of ...

Chaiten and Parque Pumalin
Mar 10, 2006

Later

chaiten
Jan 5, 2009

after i got to puerto montt i bought a ticket to the ferry going to chaiten, and spent the day in the city because the ferry was a 1 am the next day. as i got on it i fell asleep and woke up at 8, and we arrived to chaiten at about 10. chaiten is a ...

Chuffin huge flies!
Jan 23, 2008

... www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=37544&l=4a0c1&id=551865803 Wed 23 Jan The bus ride up the Carretera Austral to Chaiten was really lovely. We mainly drove through Queulat National Park, then a couple of stops at Puyuhapi and La Junta. The road ...

chaiten
Jan 8, 2008 (3 photos)

... und grossem schotter. fuer ein liegerad nicht geeignet, da zu kleine raeder. aber wir habens ueberlebt und sind nun in chaiten. sehr schoen war der pumalin-park. ein grosser park mit urwald, regenwald und anderem wald. und regen. gestern warteten wir ...

Viaje a la Carretera Austral
Mar 6, 2001

dormir

Chaiten (23 February 2006)
Mar 14, 2006

Story to come 22 Futaleufu - Chaiten (bus 7000 CH.ptas) hostel at the seaside 4.000 Ch. pesos nice wterfaal Santa Barbara beach Pumalin Park

Coyhaique - El Chaitén
Mar 1, 2008 (33 photos)

... a el Chanten, ahorrando una noche de acampada y con 80 Kms en el odómetro! Hasta la próxima! Edgard y Frances Coyhaique to Chaitén 22 February to 01 March   22 February 63.5km We left Coyhaique a record late - 12.00pm and labored up the ...