The next day we headed to Puerto Montt where we had a wander through the handicraft markets and had nother seafood lunch, we then 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 ne...

20th January - Puerto Varas We had to come back to Puerto varas for an overnight so that we could catch the Navimag cruise tomorrow. We stayed at the same hostal as before (Casa Azul), so everything seemed very familiar. In the evening there was a free outdoor concert in town featuring some excellent flamenco music and dancing. On the bus from B...

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 Argentina, using a boat crossing over crystal blue Lake Todos Santos. I came here to climb Volcano Orsono. ...

Our flight landed 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. Over looking the lake is Volcan Osorno, an impressive cone shaped volcano. Wh...

Yes, we´ve been spanked. We have "hire bicycle" bottom. No-one told us that 9km into the cycle the road would turn into a perpetual cattle grid. So we left Pucon a few days ago and took a long distance bus to Puerto Varas. Kat was feeling a little tired and emotional following the sunburning incident (KM - I look like the Elephant Woman with bot...

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 people were all really nice and it just feels like a friendly small town. I went on a canopy ride, which...

i was a lucky son of ***** 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 a huge lake surrounded by volcanos and a river that can be explored. also the earth is covered...