Frutillar, Chile Travel Blogs

To Strawberry, or not to strawberry...
Feb 4, 2007 (4 photos)

Well Rutger and I heard that there was a music festival in the nearby town of Frutillar. To be honest I just liked the name of the town which, if there was such a word in Spanish, would mean "to strawberry". So after a night in Puerto Montt we hit the road ...

unterwegs!
Jul 19, 2007 (5 photos)

... ja in die richtige einzusteigen! sitzten ist schon was schoenes! auch wenn das fahrgefuehl eher einer achterbahn als einem bus gleicht! frutillar: ein kleiner verschlafener ort! aber ganz nett! nichts zum immer leben aber ein halben tag kann man da schon ...

Frutillar
Jan 14, 2008

Photos on previous entry with Puerto Varas. Frutillar was founded by German colonials in 1845 after request from Chilean Republic.

still damp, but getting warmer
Sep 12, 2006 (10 photos)

Lesson learned, if you splurge a little on a hotel, you get heat! Took the bus up to Frutillar, a lakeside town founded by german colonists at the turn of the 20th century. It is really beautiful, almost looks like germany, except there is a giant snow ...

Piero and Adrian meet again...
Mar 25, 2007 (6 photos)

Ready to takle together South Chile´s challenges, we met again in a cold morning at 6,30 am at Osorno Bus Station and spent a couple of days in the area getting ready for Patagonia!

A trip around Lake Llanquihue...
Oct 4, 2006

See the entry for Puerto Octay for our trip to Frutillar...

a lil lil peace of germany
Feb 8, 2008 (54 photos)

Nice lil town but very quiet greatly set, between the lake and a hill with a wonderful amount of vegitation. seems as though the germans always seem to make colonies in some of the most beautiful set areas of the world.

Southern Chile, Seen from a Bus
Mar 4, 2008

... out they  didn't actually mean Patagonia (where I really want to go), but instead the "gateway to the south": Frutillar, Puerto Varas, Puerto Montt, Chiloe, and some national parks. We stayed in Frutillar, which as far as we could tell contains ...

Rios, lagos, vulcanos y Chiloé
Nov 18, 2006 (15 photos)

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viaje a temuco
Feb 8, 2004

a ver a la Carolina a cantar