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Cochamo
Travel Blogs from Cochamo, Chile
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Horse-back riding in the Andes
This is a top pick! ... . Lacking any good map we decided to consult the local people. The first we asked was unaware that a camping site excisted in Cochamo and helpfully (not!) pointed us in the direction of the only road in the village. The second guy we asked didn't even ...
The two faces of Cochamo
... river crossing! No need to ford the river in bare feet! The beautiful Cochamo valley Cochamo Endangered Damming in the Lakes District of Chile [further reading] may lead to this pristine area being severely flooded and potentially changed ...
Chile´s Yosemite
Rio Cochamo Valley
... on a 100yr old oxcart log trail that use to be an Argentinian/Chilean trade route. It runs right through the Rio Cochamo Valley. We were heading up to the a remote mountain valley called La Junta. We trekked for hours in the pouring rain, ...
Explorations
... on the lake. There was not much to do but we were quite lucky in a typical us sort of way. We caught the local bus to Cochamo, the bus driver kind of forgot to drop us off. So he suddenly stopped the bus and dropped us off on this bridge. He pointed ...
Horseriding and fly-swatting in the Andes
... also right on a crystal clear (drinkable upstream!) river with sandy banks. I think it was a little bit of heaven right there in Chile. If anyone ever is looking for a place for a get-away, honeymoon, anniversary, or just want to visit me and take me ...
On Horseback
In Puerto Varas, where the bus was an hour and a half late getting us to our remote destination to Cochamo, where our horseback riding expedition departs from, we ride the two hour bus which mainly goes slowly down a gravel road barely wide enough for our ...
Venturing off the beaten path
... over 260 days of rain a year. After a delicious breakfast we saddled up for a 5 hour horseback riding trip through the Cochamo valley. We started off riding alongside the river, then headed up into the valley through the rainforest. Along the trail we ...
Temperate rainforest and big granite walls
After 'discovering' Cochamo online and spending a total of about 10 mins deciding that we wanted t go we packed our bags and caught a little local bus. Three hours later we were dropped off in a little village on the edge of a fiord surrounded ...
Guest Entry..........
... and Laurence filling in the ´guest spot´while Jenny and Chris disappear into their room for a few minutes...... We arrived in Cochamo from Chiloe Island having travelled all day in glorious sunshine but we were stuck in a car. Fantastic pictures ...
Mar 26, 2012
Christmas with the Family
Wow, what a place. I Have been sitting in an absolute magical land for the last 5 days and it is all thanks to Armin and Kurt (my cousin and her husband), Kalib and Eli and not to forget Vallo, by all accounts probably the slowest horse in the camp but ...
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