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Pucon Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Pucon, Chile
The invisible mountain
After a relatively painfree bus trip and a whole bus to myself from Temuco i arrived at Pucon to a cold overcast morning. The day proceded to get worse with low hanging cloud and no sight of the volcano possible, I didn´t even know which direction it was ...
Chilean lakes (part 2): Volcanoes & chocolate
... really – nothing like those Hollywood movies! 11:30: We finally reached the snow line and were rewarded with gorgeous views of Pucon, the lake and other volcanoes in the distance. Crampons and hard hats on and pick axes at the ready! We were given ...
Pucon y Saltos del Caburga
Al llegar en la casa de turismo nos dieron buenas indicaciones. Este es un centro de esquí bastante barato que en verano se pone bueno pues el lago Villarica tiene influencia volcánica y le regula la temperatura. Hay para hacer de todo. Rafting, ...
Silence of the lamb
Upon arrival, as agreed, at 4:30pm in Curarrehue, Julie, Donna and I arrived at Luis´, ready for the promised lamb barbeque. As Chileans are kinda well known for often turning up late, we waited on the doorstep for half hour before we decided something ...
The Lake District: Chilean Side
... to the dry northern parts of Chile, with many lakes dotted amongst the forest terrain and a number of Volcanoes rising above. Pucon is a popular holiday retreat for Chileans in the summer, and also attracts many in the winter for skiing. The journey down ...
San Martin/pucon
arrived in puchon around two,found a hostel and organised bus to santiago.14000 peso.had food and decided what activities we would do over the next while.booked the trip up the active mountain for 26th jan,mountain bikeing and river rafting for ...
Pucon
... den Straßen gekehrt werden. Das ist schlimmer als Schnee, da sich nach Regen die Asche in eine Art Zement verwandelt. Pucon ist auch sehr schoen. Highlight hier: Vukanbesteigung des Villarica. Ansonsten gibt es noch zu berichten, dass sich unser Hund ...
Brents dream comes true!
Ok, so now we are in Pucon and it is unreal here. It´s like banff here, tons of people but I can see why. The main attraction is an active volcano that you can climb, so you could imagine brent was all over that! We booked for the next day and it was ...
Puke On Pucon
So, the lake district area around Argentina/Chile is about a million times better than ours so we decided to stay... That and it was much cheaper to go back through Chile (my 15th & 16th border crossings) and work up South America that way... Fortunately ...
Time for a bit of chilling.....
... planes to new adventures, I decided to stay one more night in Santiago before setting off into the unknown of Chile with a ticket for one. Jumped onto a bus to Pucon the next morning at 8.30am & readied myself for an 11hr bus ride down south. Im ...
Pucón
Pucón. Am Fusse des Vulkans Villarica... den ich letzten Endes doch nicht bestiegen habe aufgrund schlechten Wetters. Schade, da Cesar, der Freund bei dem ich hier gewohnt habe Bergführer ist und mich für lau hätte mitnehmen können ...
aguas calientes
pocito vino tinto in irish sounds well thx frankie and pauline - was a nice evening... for frankie and me bling bling - ...
You want me to climb what?
... it was pretty spectacular (he was a bit annoyed because the air hostess had run over his foot). Staying in Pucon "the adventure capital of Chile". And we´ve already climbed our first Volcano...smoking and everything. Mt Villarica 2800m. To be ...
Pucon, Chile
What a gorgeous little town! Pucon is nestled next to the Villarica Volcano (which is covered with snow year all year) and Villarica Lake. We splurged and stayed at a resort...ahh the good life! After all the bus, plane and car rides ...
Volcano!!!
... of celebration as most of us ended up in a bar in town until about 4am (bringing back memories of celebrating after trekking in Chile) - a very fun night to end an amazing day!! Unsurprisingly we had a lie in the next day and then some of the ...
Best Valentine's Date EVER
Kim's Version of the Day: Wade drove through 24 kilometers of rough mountain terrain just to take me to the coolest hot springs ever. He loves me, he loves me not. He loves me. :) Wade’s Version of the Day: I got to drive up the sickest mountain ...
Capitale chilienne du plein air
... connaissait même pas l'existence de cette ville avant de partir! C'est en jasant avec les autres voyageurs et en constatant que Pucon semblait être une ville où plusieurs passaient en visitant le Chili que je suis allé lire sur Pucon dans le Lonely ...
We wish you a merry un-christmas
I say un-Christmas, as there was very little Christmassy stuff today, aside from people frequently saying "Feliz Navidad" to us in the streets. As you can imagine, after a late night, we weren't up so early, and had nothing much planned, so we donned ...
how does chile compare to the US?
... are saying soup in a can from the grocery store knowing my way around a grocery store Understanding instructions to cook things Things I like about Chile that are different than US: People dont start work till 9 or 10, then eat a huge lunch at 1 or 2, and ...
The next chapter
... gorgeous dog, it was a great place to spend what I thought would be a couple of nights... Now I had heard that Pucon was a good place to do adventurous activities, but I didn't realise just how many adventurous activities there were to do. So two ...
Pucon
... left Pucon the last time I was here I accidently took the key to the Hostel I stayed at, so I had a small reason to return to Pucon and take the key back. Stangely enough I was greated at the bus station by the same lady as on my last trip about a ...