Coyhaique Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Coyhaique is not very high on most people's "Places to visit in Chile" lists. It is the largest concentration of people in a region that's plagued with interminable, snowy winters, perilous mountain passes, and assailing Patagonian winds. And, oh yeah, last week the region experienced an earthquake that hit 6.2 on the Richter scale. In short, it...

Hey people! we´ve started the Carratera Austral few days ago, Buses and Hitchhiking we left Argentina and we understood why people like Argentina more :) we met more people that Hitchhike the Carraterra (don't forget your towel. ;)) tho they had less luck then us, they wasted a whole day trying to get a lift... it´s really nice until now we did ...

After two weeks of small and even smaller towns, finally we got to a real city! There's even a home-center here! After wondering one day among the amasingly full shelves of the city's supermarkets, we decided that we are ready to go on. As we couldn't find anyway to escape the Caratera and return straight to Argentina, we bought a bus ticket to ...

06-03-07 After 3 months fishing through Patagonia with barely a gringo in sight, I finally met a gringo fisherman. This guy was not your regular fisherman. Captain of the Autralian flyfishing team when they won the world championsip in 1999. Pat knew all the whats, hows, whens and wheres of fishing. He liked a beer and was good crack. And like m...

We leave Chile Chico feeling refreshed after an excellent breakfast with home made jams at Hosteria Patagonia. We walk down the main and only street in town and prepare ourselves for a long bus journey to Coyhaique. At 8am there is a flurry at the tourist office cum bus station, when a minibus appears together with a wad of bus tickets one of wh...