Cabanas Del Lago Hotel And Spa Puerto Varas

... but I do believe that only an Almighty God could be so awesome as to make places such as this for even the lowly of creatures to enjoy. You could hear peace whispering through the trees, and joy laughing in waves against every rock. We wait about 15 minutes for the last bus to Puerto Varas to arrive. Five city slickers reflect on their day in the wilderness. It was a good day and a perfect end to a long week

We take the bus to Puerto Varas and then ...

... on this one as it looked ming) we decline and hang out at the side of the road for a while. Eventually we pitched up at the waterfalls which were quite cool. Not the biggest but the lava formations were good and some very pretty views of osorno. So having fulfilled our objective of looking at osorno we left puerto varas and flew up to the atacama desert... ps: we are now almost famous. we were the first ever scottish people to stay at that b&b and he took our picture.aw.

NOTE!! My camera became all sorts of messed up when I got to Puerto Varas. I think some residual ash and sand got in to where it wasn´t supposed to, and it has been having trouble focusing. Some of these pics are really blurry...but I think the camera is behaving better now. I took a 7 hour bus to Puerto Montt in hopes of just flying out the next day in order to spend more time in the Santiago/Valparaiso/Viña del Mar area. Taxied ...

It´s been a while since we blogged, we know! But that is just testament to how busy the last three locations have been, Patagonia, Buenos Aires and Rio. We arrived at the campsite at midnight and dreaded the thought of having to pitch a tent in the dark with one small torch but thankfully the owner had set it all up for us and had even layed out our sleeping bags. Ujal´s excitement at being back in the tent made me laugh, we think were ...

... we went Whitewater rafting in river Petrohue. Our tour guides were a blast, and there was a cute Uruguayan family and two other Americans in the bus. I made the mistake of wearing a black shirt and was completely attacked by the horseflies when I exited the bus. I found out quickly that those suckers bite!! The Uruguayan father pulled out his thermos and mate within a minute of exiting the bus. (more about ...

... blue and was glistening in the light. We were surrounded by icebergs too which was wonderful, but a little worrying. We did lots of Titanic impressions of course. We saw a little lifeboat head out from the ship and wondered what it was doing. It turned out that a couple of members of the crew had gone out to chip some ice off one of the icebergs so the guests could have a whisky with fresh ice in the bar later. Nice little gimmick ...

... on time. We made it just in the nick of time, of course I was the nominated driver so I had to use all my skills to floor the pedals when we came to the entrance of the park, we shot through all laughing like school kids who had just out smarted the head master! We parked up at a local hostel. well it was more like a 3 star hotel, I'm not sure how they received plans for the Hostel, but it was huge and swiss, a bit of an eyesore ...

... our last night on board we were treated to a party. We had been told since we arrived that this would involve live music so we were imagining some traditional Chilean folk group. Instead we were slightly surprised to see Chris, the senior supervisor, set up his keyboard and bash out classics such as John Lennon´s ´Imagine´ and Pink Floyd´s ´Another Brick in the Wall´ with his strong Chilean accent. Very amusing ...

... in the blustering winds and took some photos of the giant but neither of us fancied attempting to climb her, bit out of our hiking abilities we thinks! Apparently ice axes and crampons are required for some of the vertical climbs which takes a meager 9 hours. Whilst wandering around the lake in Puerto Varas we had been passed by some four wheeled bike-cart type things, bugsy malone style, that caught our eye and so after ...