Casa Hexagon Chaiten

Apres une longue attente sur le ferry, pendant qu ils chargent les camions, on part avec 2h30 de retard a 17h30. Sur le bateau, je retrouve les 3 cyclistes rensontres auparavant, la suisse que j ai rencontre plusieurs fois sur Chiloe et un israelien synpathique. Malgre le vent fort et frais, le paysage de montagne enneige, nous fait rester sur le pont. En s approchant de chaiten, on apercoit la fumee du volcan qui a provoque l ...

after i got to puerto montt i bought a ticket to the ferry going to chaiten, and spent the day in the city because the ferry was a 1 am the next day. as i got on it i fell asleep and woke up at 8, and we arrived to chaiten at about 10. chaiten is a small village in the middle of no where, and most of its people were evacuated about 6 months ago ...

Coyhaique - Chaiten 22 Feb al 01 Mar 22 Feb Saliendo de Coyhaique paramos en un mirador cerca de una granja eólica industrial. Imaginen el viento en esta parte del camino. Una vez en el valle de la Reserva Nacional Río Simpson disfrutamos mucho del paisaje. Un valle cerrado, paredes de roca verticales y altas, bosques tupidos y hermosas cascadas. Además, nada de viento! Lo único es que tuvimos que pasar por un túnel en la carretera! Colocamos las luces de las ...

Chaiten We left Fu on Monday morning, completely ignorant of the status of our ferry 'booking' for Wednesday to Puerto Montt. We had originally thought it would be ok to spend a couple of days in Chaiten as there is a nice park there created by American millionaire (and hence resented by some). But now we wanted to get moving as it had taken us three days to get here, and our best case scenario was almost another three full days. Perhaps the ferry company owns all the accommodation ...

... into the sunshine: Mark to a bit of the Pumalin park leading up to a glacier and me to the Termas el Amarillo hot springs. It was a peaceful spot right next to a river. There were three man-made pools of different temperatures but there was also natural holes where people could smother themselves in the finest, softest grey-brown mud. My skin felt pretty soft after wards. After a few hours we went to pick Mark up from Pumalin, which is a private park set up by ...

... the weather would be like today and she said she had heard it would be rainy. We checked out and took a few fotos of the araucaria tree before going downtown to get cash and food for lunch. We found a cash machine in a drugstore which seems to be pretty standard in Chile. With Liz at the wheel, we headed north on Ruta 7. A couple of kilometers out of town, we picked up two Chilean guys hitchhiking. One was from Valdavia and the other from Antofagasta. They ...

... enough to get on the boat that day, i don't know how, it was really just a stroke of luck. The guy taking tickets must have felt bad for me or something, but all i did was ask him if there was any way of getting on the boat without advance reservations. He told me to go to the booking office, and i told him that they told me the boat was full, he told me to go there anyways and wait for him, so i did, and ...

... mins later we were sailing away to Chaiten! The boat journey was boring and they replayed Hitch the movie 3 times in various languages. I chilled out on the deck for the majority and was so gad to get off the boat when it docked in Chaiten. We headed for the bus station but there were no departures anywhere till tomorrow so we are stuck here in this little nasty town of Chaiten in a nasty campsite with no even ground and loads of rocks, eating nasty food, with a ...

Chaiten is a small town of 3,300 in Patagonia Chile. The main reason for our "express" visit to chaiten was MONEY. We traveled 140 kms over land in hopes of finding a bank machine to access funds. Chaiten seemed like our best bet. The chappa took several hours and passed through stunning scenery including LagoYelcho. Upon our arrival we were ecstatic to find a bank, and a machine. Unfortunately, the only bank would not ...