Puerto Montt Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Upon returning to Puerto Natales, i found myself in Kawashker Backpackers Hostel...a genuinely friendly and nice little hostel run by Omer.

After the W, the only thing to do was eat, rest, eat, rest...well, you get the idea. Steak, chicken, steak, chicken :-)

Having now come all the way down south, the only was is up. There are fou...

Puerto Montt is a cool, authentic port town in Patagonian Chile and basically the last stop before the southern tip of Chile. I booked the Navimag ferry for a four day cruise through the Chilean fjords and spent a day eating seafood, buying seasickness pills, wine to smuggle onto the ferry, and kicking around the port and the fish market.

Rain. Arggggh. This wasn´t supposed to happen. Landing in Puerto Montt we got our first rain since our very first day in New York at the start of this trip and frankly it wasn´t welcome. Having been stung by the increased expense of Chile compared to Bolivia and Peru (20 pounds a night rather than 8!) we decided to stick with the casa familial o...

So Puerto Mont was just a very quick stopover on the way to Enscenada in the north but we did have a lot of fun here with Laura, with whom we stop travelling here, and Caroline finally does some work and gets paid! Not going to bore you with the hideous decor of our very weird hostal, or try and explain another food we had which was basically an...

Monday December 31st 2007 Party ? It didn't happen. This morning we woke to a drizzly grey sky and no land in sight. The gulf south of Puerto Montt is very wide. And so this continued all morning, with little to see, as land was very distant. This was the only part of the journey that for us became a little tedious, and the birds could hardly be...

We boarded the ferry "Evangelistas" in Puerto Montt, where the 4 day journey through the Patagonian channels and fjords, open seas and past glaciers began. The scenery was spectacluar, and photo's don't really do it any justice. We spent many hours up on deck looking at the coastline & islands, or in the bridge making sure the captain was do...

NAVIMAG is a cargo ship that got wise to tourism in the 90´s and retrofitted their cargo ships to carry passengers as well as cargo. Our journey also had live cargo; horses, sheep and cattle. It is approximately a 3-4 day journey, depending on the weather, between Puerto Natales and Puerto Montt. Our ship was built in 1971 and was capable of car...

It seems so long ago that I finally jumped on the Navimag Ferry! As we were boarding I was busy chatting to Sascha and Claudia from Germany about our cabin numbers when I hear "Hey James, WHICH cabin are you in?". I turn around and it is Marc and Ramona, !! my favourite Swiss friends, who I met on the Torres del Payne trail, and again at the fu...

There is one thing that never seems to change in Chile, no matter how far south I travel - their love of 80´s music. On the bus ride to the island of Chiloé, I was listening to the likes of Lionel Ritchie and the theme song to The Never-Ending Story. It´s as though music outside of South America never progressed beyond 1991. They seemed to parti...

Argentina was a tough place to leave, but one of the last things we did in Bariloche was to reserve a room a nice hotel room in Buenos Aires (thanks to our hard earned travel reward points) for a few days surrounding the Chrismass holiday, so we took some solice in the fact that we knew we would be returning in a few weeks time. We had reserved ...