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Puerto Varas Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Puerto Varas, Chile
everyday life
Well heres a lil example of the everyday problems that can happen while traveling, nothing serious just everyday stuff. This evening i realised i was runing low on chileano pesos, but i probably had enough until tomorrow night, at the last second i ...
Puerto Varas, una mica de descans i birretes.
Bé poc a poc vaig deixar la regió dels llacs i m´endinso en la Patagňnia. Puerto Varas, es un lloc al costat del Volcŕ Osorno. Tranquil pero a la vegada a l´hospedatge hi molta gent. De fet a l´arribar passejo una mica pels voltants del llac i ...
Vina del Mar to Santiago to Puerto Varas
January 1, 2007 Vina del Mar to Santiago to Puerto Varas Dear Readers: Today is a travel day. We leave the hotel a little after 9:30am bound for the Santiago airport, some two hours travel from Vina del Mar. Boarding the flight presents the same ...
A few things I have learned in the past few days..
... waiting for the fishermen to throw the waste fish to them! I caught another bus today to Puerto Montt and the local shuttle to Puerto Varas and have just arrived at my lodgings for the night. I'm hoping to meet back up with Dave here, although ...
Im Seengebiet
... habe ich Ricardo aus Puerto Mont kennenglernt. Er hat mir damals schon empfohlen bei einem Besuch in das Seengebiet (Region de los Lagos) Puerto Varas zu besuchen. Daher bin ich von Valdivia aus nach Puerto Varas gefahren. Ein netter Ort mit ca. 33.000 ...
Next lake please...
Its not called the lake district for nothing ya know. Further south I head, only 5 hours on this occasion, to Puerto Varas on the shores of Lago ...
Pachamama Bus - Lake District Route - Day 5
... dropped the 3 Australian girls, Annie, Jacinta and Elicia at the port t catch a boat further south. We then continued on to Puerto Varas. Matt, Martin and I decided to climb the local hill to get a good view of the nearby Llanquihue lake and Osorno ...
Very German
Puerto Varas is a small place on another lake. It is very German in many ways including its architecture. Indeed the church here is based on Marienkirche of the Black Forest. From here we took a day trip to Cochamo on the only sunny day (see separate ...
Puerto Varas
Puerto Varas is a tourist town about 30 minutes north of Puerto Montt. Its famous attraction here is Volcano Orsono, a classic cone shaped volcano that resembles Mt Fuji and Mt Shasta. It also has a lesser used, but spectacular, gateway to ...
The Bicycle Diaries
... able to go on a mountain bike trip of a lifetime: Crossing the Andes from San Carlos de Bariloche (Argentina) to Puerto Varas (Chile) combining biking with lake crossings by boat. Trip Facts: The distance - 39 nautical miles by catamaran, 165 Km ...
Time spent on the bus
... trip =4 hours Cordoba to san luis =8hours San luis to mendoza =6 hours mendoza to chile border =4 hours Argentina total time on the bus 93 hours on the bus in one ...
Puerto Varas
Day 40 – 42 Puerto Varas, Chile Arrived in Puerto Montt after a 2 hr flight and picked up our 'not so top of the range' Chevrolet Corsa, which was noisy and sounded like it was made of tin – but got us everywhere we needed to go! We rattled ...
Lake Llanquihue
... in driving on the wrong side of the road...we stalled a couple of times and then finally made it out of the maze that is Puerto Varas (all of six streets to get lost in) and off we went round the Llangquihue lake towards Volcano Osorno. We stopped at each ...
Puerto Varas
We were only in Puerto Varas, Chile for 1.5 days, so we had to make the most of it. I have been wanting to do some Canyoning for a while and apparently this was the place to do it. Lara, Jess, Dawna, Max and I all got wetsuits, helmets and ...
Tierra de volcanes
... 's pasar la frontera el paisaje cambió completamente para pasar a ser de los más salvaje y frondoso. La cosa pintaba bien. En Puerto Varas, nso alojamos en un hostel muy simpático donde conocimos a dos chicas de Santiago (de Chile), Antonia y Nacha, ...
Puerto Varas
... in Puerto Montt and we got a transfer straight to the bus station. Its a bit of a dive so we jumped on a bus to Puerto Varas which is 30 mins north. Puerto Varas is a sweet little tourist town next to Lago Llanquihue, the second biggest lake in Chile. ...
Peacefulness and Tranquility
Every day I say to myself that it cannot get much more beautiful than this and then it does. I have to say that our planet earth is the most amazing and mindblowingly beautiful place and I have only scratched the surface. I wish everyone ...
Jane's scribbles
... scary but the driver was fantastic and it wasn't as if there was any other traffic to worry about! Finally arrived at Puerto Varas, colonised by the Germans in the mid 1880s (no, they were invited in by the Chilean government) and at first ...
Stranded in Puerto Varas (but enjoying it)
When we were hiking around the Torres, we chatted to a couple who highly recommended Puerto Varas, as a beautiful alternative to port town Puerto Montt. Since they were from Chile we took their advice and were really pleased that we did. Puerto ...
Ticket Sellers and other abominations
... (have dropped Chiloe due to cost and time issues), then go for a bike ride in the afternoon. But no bus goes there from Puerto Varas. So I decided on Bariloche (bigger town, can go on from there to San Martin). The first company (the biggest one!) ...
Petit village entourre de volcans
Du repos et de l'acrobranche pour se degourdir les jambes apres 4 jours en ...
About to leave wet Chile
... then bus across the border again to Argentina and the city of Bariloche. Another 2 nights in a self contained flat at P.Varas prior to leaving Chile was not hard to cope with either. The rain has been a blessing as it has given our bodies a well earned ...
Crainy
Oh lordy! I just wrote a whole new entry and this computer decided to delete it, it´s like a retarded sloth so sorry for my bad typing. Anyways, as you may have guessed from the title, it´s cold and rainy in this place- not too nice! also, its a ...
Euer Feedback
Liebe Leute, Vielen Dank fuer euer zahlreiches Feedback via Kommentarfunktion oder Email. Freu mich sehr von euch zu lesen :-) Beinahe wollte ich das Blogschreiben wegen Einseitigkeit schon einstellen und stattdessen Massenmails fabrizieren... Mehr als ...
The volcanos just keep coming!
... viewing options so far have been old Steven Segal & Dolph Lundgren movies, in Spanish & generally with no subtitles). Peurto Varas was a really nice town, right on the edge of the massive Lake Llanquihue, with two active volcanos in easy view ...
We can see a volcano out our window
... wet to walk outside but we did have a lovely lunch there. It was close to 6pm by the time we arrived in Puerto Varas. This little town, in Chile, is situated on the edge of Lago Llanquihue. It was such a shame that the weather on the crossing was not with ...
Puerto Varas
... between our spanish and his english none of us knew what was going on when we collected it. We headed from the airport to Puerto Varas about half way from where we were due to pick Sarah and Blaithin up the following day. This is a pretty little ...
Volcano Town!
... net and it was the space station... so bright too, I haven´t seen it that bright from Scotland before...) It passes over tonight again - Scotland as well so keep your eyes peeled! So Puerto Varas gets the thumbs up. Nice place, nice beer and nice ...
Puerto Montt/Puerto Varas
... young boy of about 3 who danced and sang for us in the market, we jumped back on the bus and headed an hour further up to Puerto Varas. This is quite a nice little town and the hostel we had was good too. Until, that is, we were asked to leave for making ...