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Puerto Varas Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Puerto Varas, Chile
The Lake Crossing
... beauty to come, now in the shape of violent waterfalls with rainbow effects and all the works, before the last leg by bus to Puerto Varas. By the time we got there, we were physically and spiritually exhausted, on top of which our hotel didn´t have our ...
In Transit
... and, having booked my ticket for a couple of days ahead to Punta Arenas, I went to the pleasant lakeside town of Puerto Varas. It was a nice enough place without being particularly spectacular. It also had a strange German influence with some odd looking ...
Hanging out
Go to Peacefrog Summary Page ___________________________ Very poor weather, nothing that makes you want to hike a vaolcano.... So I updated text and pictures in many entries And spend time with the bunch of travellers at the guesthouse And ...
Vivid Volcanoes and Raging Rivers
... $15 per person, and I agree to subsidize a third of that, so we hit the road for the coast. One person's guidebook says that Puerto Montt isn't much to see. I had a favorable impression of it eight years ago on my first trip here, and I still enjoy ...
In Chile now!!!
... hit on, yuck!!!! I think the rest of the restaurant also found it a tad amusing!!! Tuesday I headed across to Puerto Montt and Angelmo in the morning, enjoyed looking around the market (and bought an essential scarf which will be needed ...
Puerto Varas
... and still be able to nail Elvis (I couldn't tell the difference). Plus, it was another weird moment... a Chilean Elvis impersonator in a Puerto Varas casino... I'll never see that again. We were going to play the slot machines (just one for fun), but we ...
Puerto Varas, lovely lakes & awesome Volcan Osorno
... Varas!). Fortunately however, the day we decided to visit the Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park (our main reason for visiting Puerto Varas) Mother Nature was very kind to us, turning the rain off and cranking the temperature up a few notches. A ...
Puerto Varas
This is a top pick! ... head. I'd say I got between seven and eight hours of shut eye, which is much better than I usually do on airplanes. In Puerto Varas, the friendly people who run our hostel, the Compass del Sur (no relation to the bus company) were kind enough to ...
Puerto Varas and Frutillar
This is a top pick! ... , I would have ordered that, too. In the late afternoon, I felt restless so I followed a self-guided walking tour of Puerto Varas's historic houses. Many of them were absolutely adorable. I also peeked ...
lago de todos los santos
La citta' non ha molto da offrire... si sente molto la colonizzazione tedesca con casette di legno e il tetto spiovente e aiuole perfettamente definite... alloggiamo in un ostello insediatosi nell'edificio piu' vecchio della citta'... non e' male ma i ...
Puerto Varas
Puerto Varas is a really dinky little town, lots of German and Swiss people settled in the area years ago so it's all wooden houses and kuchen and things like that. I'd read that it's pretty touristy but I dunno, I really liked the place, the ...
Puerto Varas
... than stay in Puerto Montt (which didn´t look that inviting a place to stay for long) we got straight on a local bus to Puerto Varas about half an hour drive north. Puerto Varas has a great setting on Lago Llanquihue with views of Volcan Osorno ...
Doing the John Wayne walk
... visited India, most of South East Asia, Oz, New Zealand and already been to Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. And he had been in Chile since November. You must now be thinking wow Andy has an impressive memory or I that I had written all this down in shorthand ...
Chile's Lake District
... ) was too much to ignore, and we spent the afternoon doing Lord of the Ring impressions, me playing Gollum. One evening back in Puerto Varas, I went with a girl who worked at my hostel and a Canadian guy to watch a local jazz band play in a club called ...
Puerto Varas
It was OK here, The scenery was amazing but not alot to do and a little bit boring. There was 2 volcanos. We only stayed here for 2 ...
Pink Pants & Bearded Clams
... without much fuss. The final boat trip, and the longest at 1 1/2 hours takes us to the final bus for our last journey to Puerto Varas. The cloud never lifted all day with intermittent heavy rain, we did not get the views and vistas we had hoped for but ...
Ze Germans are here!
... how dry and barren the Argentinian Patagonia was until we saw the rain forest of the Chilean lake´s district. Our destination: Puerto Varas. A small vacation town on the shores of Lago Llanquihue with stunning views of Volcan Osorno. It is a prominent ...
Chilean Lakes District
A short bus trip across the Andes from the Argentinian lakes distict found us in the Chilean lakes district - apart from there being lots of lakes, the main difference is that on this side of the Andes there are volcanos as well. We stayed in a ...
White waters & all things German
... in the world....and trust us, we are tiramusi connoiseurs! :o) After Mesito Grande in Puerto Natales and now Allesandors in Puerto Varas - Chile gets top prize for pizzas in South America. We'd been planning on doing a short trek through the Vicente Perez ...
Puerto Varas & Volcan de Osorno
... over the place promoting “kuchen” – or “cake” in German. In addition to its German heritage, Puerto Varas is known for the multiple volcanoes in close proximity. The most iconic, Volcan de Osorno, towers over the lake ...
Volcano Land
... the little mini-buses that do shuttle runs to nearby Puerto Varas and got the hell out of there!! Only 30 minutes away, Puerto Varas felt like a different world. It was much quieter and was situated on the pretty lake Llanquihue with views of the snow ...
Puerto Varas
Seth and I spent a couple of days in Puerto Varas staying in the most organised, German-run, hostel ever! The weather wasn´t great whilst we were here but we still managed to eat some fantastic Kuchen und Torten in an old German settlement and ...
Causing havoc on the plane
... numerous photos of the Andes mountains thankfully the remainder of the flight past without further incident. We checked into our hotel at Puerto Varas where we were staying in one of their on site cabins on Lago Llanquihue, a 250 square mile lake, ...
A night in Chile
... with bushes of pretty red fuschia flowers. It certainly felt different. We stopped the night in a lakeside town called Puerto Varas, which has a large snow-capped volcano silently guarding the other side of the water. The smoke from eight nearby ...
Vamos al sur!
i was a lucky son of bitch to have the best possible weather in puerto varas. in patagonia it normally rains all the time in the winter but today is the 3 consecutive day of sun. allright so what did i do? the national park vicente perez rosalez offers ...
Journey South - Chile and Argentina Lakes District
From Santiago we caught a night bus (13 hours) to a town in the Chilean lakes district called Puerto Varas, which is itself on a large lake with an amazing view of Volcano Osorno. Since we were pretty excited about re-entering Argentina from down here ...
Seguint les petjades del Ché
Bé doncs avui vaig al Parque Vicente Perez Rosales, el més antic de Xile. Triguem gairebé un hora en arribar. Vaig amb una noia alemana i un noi israelià que s´apunten. En arribar preguntem als guardes quines opcions tenim per fer trekking. El parc ...
Asado and Helados
... trying to recover the 5kg+ that it felt like I lost on the Volcano!... At least that´s what I´m telling myself Anyway, Puerto Varas is larger than Pucon and more closely linked to the (very large) lake and associated watersports. Will probably hire ...