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Pucon Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Pucon, Chile
Monstrous volcanoes and divine blue lakes
... . Ontzettend mooi, een serie vulkanen die bijna ontdeugend hun kop boven het wolkendek aan de horizon uitsteken! Nu zit ik in Pucon, een dorpje aan de voet van de vulkaan Villarrica. Er komt gewoon rook uit de vulkaan! Ookal is mijn plan nog ...
Pucon
... Villarrica ressemble au Mont Fuji au Japon, le soir on peut voir au somment la lumiere rouge de la lave dans le cratere... Pucon c'est egalement les riches chiliens, c'est LE lieu ! Maisons enormes, terrains de golfs, Palaces, restaurants de luxe ! ...
Volcanoes
... a good volume of profanity on this steep walk) to where the glaciers began at the top where there were stunning views out over Pucon. We were supposed to trek the glaciers to the rim of the volcano however the winds were 100km/hr and it was deemed ...
frape la route jacques
... de bus a ne rien voir a cause des nuages et de la brume. mais bon, ca fait partie des imprevues. maintenant je suis a pucon, dans une auberge pleine a craquer, ca fait different des derniers jours. j'espere avoir la meteo avec moi ici a pucon, car ...
Lake District
Et c'est parti direction le sud du Chili et la Patagonie. Pour ne pas faire trop de bus d'un coup on décide de faire une petite halte a Pucón. On y arrive le matin, il fait gris mais déja c'est le dépaysement dans un petit village tout en bois, on se ...
Ojos De Caburgua
... path, where we gratefully cheat and accept a lift offered to us back to the main road, where we can take the bus back to Pucon. Its the kinda day where moving is then difficult and painful for the rest of the day but well worth it. Its definitely a good ...
Blue blue waters
On our last day in Pucon we rented a car with the Kiwis and drove around to various waterfalls and points of interest around Pucon. We had played with the idea of doing various tours to the waterfalls and the surrounding areas, but we realized it'd ...
repos thermal
Une journee de faineant comme on les aime ! Matin, grasse mat (jusqu a 10h, apres difficile de dormir au vu de l isolation phonique interne et externe des murs en carton pate... des vrais maisons des 3 petits cochons ces maisons chiliennes!) Midi, super ...
Short driving day
20 nov Los Angeles to Pucon. Trip 296 km. Total 12434 km The first 200 km we continue south on the same motorway as yesterday. Then we turn east towards the Andes and arrive at a beautiful lake. Pucon borders this lake and is a center ...
Volcanic splendour
... voice which was so high pitched we couldn´t really concentrate on what he was actually saying - quite remarkable). Pucon is very pleasant to wander around (very walkable) - a little touristy but nevertheless very pretty. Beautiful ...
Pucón el centro de aventura del sur
... a great bar 'Mamas and Tapas'! The highlight for Cate and I was getting up at 5.30am to climb one of Chile's most active volcanoes, Volcan Villarrica. Not the easiest task, we were equipped with our guide Sergio, crampons (Cate ...
A day at the Termas
... again tomorrow. So, back to the cabana Bob came and a new plan for the day was developed. We decided to go to Pucon to have a look around town…..a typical cute tourist town with a skier/surfer or climber/rafter type vibe. We both wondered ...
A piece of heaven
After a 10 hour overnight bus ride in our deluxe but crazy sauna hot bus we have arrived in Pucon. Small town about 8000 people with volcano Villarrica towering magnificently over the town. Our hostel is a much needed upgrade after our last ...
A horse, a volcano and a little dog!
Such a perfect day... The whole time I was climbing the Volcan Villarrica I couldn’t get that song out of my head. You know the song??? The one off Trainspotting!!! Well, I had that song and thanks to a girl in our climbing team, the Indiana Jones ...
Stairway to Heaven
After our relaxation it's time to get on with the adventure and Pucon proves to be just the place. Located on the coast of Lake Villarrica, the town attracts all sorts of outdoor-activity seekers, but the main attraction is summiting the 2847m Volcan ...
Failing to peak the Villarrica Volcano.
Tuesday 26th We drove back into Chile (and back to the Pacific side of the Andes) for 3 nights camping in Pucon. As we are now going north we are going back from winter into early autumn - the trees have green leaves on them. At the border we passed the ...
Pucón
Pucón ist das Zentrum fuer schoene Wanderungen. Wir hatten wunderschoenes Wetter und konnten so 3 super Wanderungen machen. Wir starteten mit der Besteigung des aktiven Vulkans Villarrica. Es ist ein schoener Berg und steht ueber Pucón wie das ...
5 nights in Pucon, Chile
... accommodation just after 11pm. Our host Ernesto has waited up for us, and shows us the cabin. Its large with 2 bedrooms about 6 kilometres from Pucon. We unpack and head for bed. 25th Its a beautiful day, and ever so quiet. The cabin is on a hill and we ...
Truck Crash
We left early he next morning to head out from the Carretera Austral and out into the wetter parts of Chile. The change in scenery was quite something - from the lakeside roads of the previous couple of days, through the Patagonian Steppe desert-like ...
There I was, chilling in ... Banff?!?
Pucon, Chile is normally a chill ski centre, but this time of year is a deluxe vacation resort 10 hours from Santiago. Post and beam, stone work and monet abound... reminiscent of the Canadian Rockies and places I can ill afford. It is the heart of ...
Lakes and Volcanos
... a 1L tub of icecream!! The highlight of the day was supposed to be a visit to the best thermal hot springs in Chile. We drove along a narrow dirt road, around blind corners and over questional bridges for about 20km to the springs, arriving at 8pm, just ...
You put your left leg in, ...
... hike through the national park, past a bunch of beautiful lakes. Being out of town we missed most of the other attractions of Pucon like climbing the volcano but it was cloudy while we were there so the volcano wasn't climable anyway. Food was home ...
Climbing Volcano Villarrica
... high winds I (Bob) had agreed to attempt the climb today. So I rose again at 5:15 AM and drove the 20 kms in mist into Pucon to meet up with the group at 6:30 AM at the Tree House Hostel. Today's group had grown with the four trekkers from yesterday and ...
May 10, 2011
I left my heart in Pucon...
... the resulting hang over and smell of campfire lingered with us for days after we left. There are adventures-a-plenty in Pucon; from horseback riding to volcano trekking to rafting, this is an outdoorsy backpacker's dream. Nick was determined to hike ...
Pucón
Après 800 km depuis Santiago et une bonne journée de route, nous voici arrivés dans le chalet de François et Cécilia que 300 hectares de forêt, lagunes, pozón et vallée entourent. La nuit, on aperçoit le reflet rouge de la lave en ébullition du ...