Hotel Natura Patagonia Puerto Varas

... Pookie was odd (Crackhen from a previous blog) but she had nothing on Ella. I call her Ella because this buxom bird stood out from all the rest. in Spanish Ella (pronounced AA-YA) means she or her, but the name Ella brings a picture in my mind of a robust, no nonsense sassy woman like Ella Fitzgerald. Her feathers were frazzled and disheveled making her look much larger than normal. I don’t know how she came to look that way but the look matched her ...

... police here are scary looking (ie they have guns) and everyone under the sun (even park rangers) seems to wear stab vests (doesn't inspire confidence, does it?!) but this particular man was the least scary looking police/security man i've ever seen. Wee and with a stab vest that looked like you've put on too big a life jacket and it sticks up to your ears type thing, he kept smiling at us as we waited on the bus. Eventually he spoke to us (well in spanish) and we ...

... city a more green place to live. (Just giving you ample opportunity, Jean, to give us **** for being hippies!) Cruising on our bikes in Bellavista (translates to beautiful view) We dropped by a tour at one of three houses of the famous poet, Pablo Naruda ...

... wouldn't fit in the trunk so we had to put the back seats down to make it fit. We made it to Puerto Varas in about 1/2 and hour. It is a cute lakeside resort town with views of the Osorno and Puntiaguado volcanos. The lake district is cooler than Santiago since it is the start of the Patagonian region and about 2 1/2 hours south. However, the sun is extremely strong there due to the depletion of the ozone ...

... of mussel shells that littered the beaches where we camped... Some interesting camping too. On the second night, due to difficulty finding a campsite and not familiar with the tide timetable, we had to move the tent to higher ground in pouring rain. Even then, Esther was awake most of the night worrying about being washed away. Then it was an early start on a couple of the days as we discovered that to avoid battling ...

Finally managed to drag ourselves away from Bariloche and got ourselves to Puerto Montt. We arrived on Saturday and our boat didn´t leave until Monday so we had a little time to look around the area. Managed to find a lovely little Hospadaje for a really good price then headed out to explore. Puerto Montt didn´t have much to offer other than lots of shady bars and shifty blokes. "That´s the thing about port cities..." kept coming out of our ...

... werde ich mich auf Nahrungssuche begeben. Vielleicht erlege ich einen Strassenkoeter! Mal sehen! Ist auch teurer als ich dachte! 6000 Chilenische Dollar kostet das Hostel die Nacht, das sind etwa 10 Euro... im Lonely Planet steht was anderes.... Naja!

... niet alles hebben... Maandag 17 maart 2008 Ik vind het nu wel jammer dat de boottocht gedaan is. Begon er al aan gewoon te geraken, aan dat luieren! Om 10u zoiets zijn we in de haven van Puerto Montt aangekomen. Het is een mooie zonnige dag, je voelt het verschil goed in temperatuur tegenover het uiterste zuiden van Chili. Puerto Montt is de hoofdstad van The Lake District of the Xth region. Chili is ingedeeld in regionen, van I (helemaal het noorden) tot XII ...

... paskapommittajia puissa. kyparalle kayttoa siis. eli paikalliset merinmetsot majailevat palmuissa sankkoina joukkoina ja kakkivat pahaa avvistamattomien altakulkijoiden paalle jos hyvin sattuu. osasimme onneksi varoa eika vahitellen mekkalan takin. pitavat nimittain kasittamatonta aanta, aivan kuin lauma mielipuolisia sammakoita olisi kivunnut puuhun. paatin opetella kyseisen aantelyn ja se alkoi jopa jo sujuakin. tiiatteko muuten etta on karkausvuosi tana vuonna? no mekin tiedetaan ...

... well expensive for what it was. so we decided to change hostels but that was a bit of a mistake: we went for cheap but we got a basic hostel - fine. But the kitchen couldnt be used as it was so unhygenic to use... And the people who stayed there were pigs, treating the place like a poohole, leaving the kitchen and bathrooms in a state... They ...