Casa Hexagon Chaiten
Calle Rio Blanco 36 Chaiten, Chile
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Chuffin huge flies!
Photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3 7544&l=4a0c1&id=551865803 Wed 23 Jan The bus ride up the Carretera Austral to Chaiten was really lovely. We mainly drove through Queulat National Park, then a couple of stops at Puyuhapi and La Junta. The road again was gravel but was in pretty good condition - hardly any potholes. We were …
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Boat ride - Quellon to Chaiten
We meet Detlef, Diana, Klara, and Thilo at 2:30pm and load our bicycles onto their RV. We ride with them over to the ferry and find it very strange to be in a moving vehicle again -- it's a good thing the trip to the boat isn't very far or Yannick might get car sick! As we board the ferry, we say goodbye to Chiloe Island and the Southern terminus of the Pan-American Highway.
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Volcano factory
Chile feels a lot like the states in many ways, but as we continue south on the Carretera Austral (the Southern Highway) it's getting more and more remote, and feels like we’re in a foreign country again, with chickens in the road and random sights like a shirtless guy with a giant cabbage under his arm. The route travels south along the rugged Pacific coast of mainland Chile and requires a few ferries to cross fjords, we also waited about an hour while ...
Pumalin: Senderos to nowhere!
Friday morning we set off in reasonable time to do one of the longer walks. The walk said about two hours each way up to a viewpoint of a huge volcano and then on to a campground at a lake. What the info didn't tell us was that it was almost straight up the mountain. Ascending steep steps and slippery wet ladders made of wood we climbed past several nice waterfalls through thick dense rainforest.
After struggling up for about ...
Flirting with volcanoes again and Pumalin at last
The next day we had to pass through the devasted town of Chaiten. This used to be one of the main ports in the region but several years back it's namesake volcano erupted and buried half the town under volcanic ash. The place has barely started to recover and many of the town’s houses are still derelict or buried under a couple of feet of ash. To make matters worse the volcano is still dangerously unstable ...
