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On the road at last
... night indoors.
Next day dawned bright and sunny and this time we did 400 miles with no problems, and found a nice little camp site at Puerto Octay, one of the German settlements from the 1800s, next to a huge lake and overlooked by two three snow-capped volcanoes. Volcano Osorno is very similar in appearance to Mt Fuji in Japan. The Lake setting was very beautiful. The only thing that
spoilt the day was some ...
The land of myths
... But nonetheless I have now seen a Palafito!!!
We then spent a day in Dalcahue and anchoa! We had lovely weather and I got to see dolphins and some more churches!!! The one great thing about Chiloé is the fresh fish whih we indulged in to a great extent!
Next stop Pucon, land of the live volcano or as my mother remembers it puke town where the volcano throws up on you!
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Von Pfahlbauten und Streunern
... unseren Ranger zu den anderen sagen: "se van a Cole Cole pero son de Suiza. No hay problema" (sie gehen nach Cole Cole aber sie sind aus der Schweiz, kein Problem):-) Wahrscheinlich hatten die in juengerer Vergangenheit so einige vorzeitig ermuedete Touristen via Pferdchentransport herausholen muessen. Unverstaendlich, denn der Weg entpuppte sich zwar als streckenweise ermuedend, da er auf Sandboden direkt am Strand entlangfuehrt und gegen Ende so einige ...
Penguins on Chileo
... fly birds" and "Humboldt penguin".
After seeing the penguins we had a long drive to reach our hostal in Castro. We spent 2 nights at this very nice hostal…….they call them Palafitos which means houses on stilts, for obvious reasons. Shortly after we arrived, a group of five Japanese "20 something's" came in. As far as we could tell they were doing a video of their trip to Chile…so out came the REALLY BIG video cameras and lights as ...
Wk 7 Slowly making our way back
... the army challenged the local football team to a match on the field!!! Proof positive or not; anyway after the match the players and spectators were all invited to walk the field to reinforce the knowledge that it was indeed another return to normal use of previously restricted ground.
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