Pucon Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Pucon should be on your list of top places to go for an active vacation. Located in pine forested countryside that is studded with mountain lakes and majestic volcanoes and, when I was there, almost perfect sunny, warm but non-humid weather. Pucon has a black sand volcanic beach on the shore of one of these lakes, that is crowded with Chile's yo...

Yesterday morning I arrived in Pucon after a 12 hour overnight bus ride from Vina. I am staying in a hostel called Donde German that is about a 10 minute walk from downtown. Pucon is a town at the edge of Lake Villarica and a short drive to the Villarrica Volcano. This trip provided many firsts for me. I had my first ride in a Chilean charter bu...

In Santiago I found out about the Pachama (mother earth) backpacker bus, which covered quite a few of the highlights on the route south and seemed like a nice alternative to the local busses. Ollie, my new partner in crime, and I joined the bus, the first destination beeing Pomaire, a small coastal town with black-sanded beach. Unfortunately the...

Chile is a country of order... things actually work and transport runs on time! People dress conservatively, are not as friendly as their South American counterparts, the food is terrible and most things are rather expensive compared with other South American countries. Those things aside, the green countryside was a welcome relief arriving from...

Go to Peacefrog Summary Page ___________________________ After 4 days of bad weather, without even seeing the volcano, this sunday was meant to be a slight possibility of hiking up there, followed by another 4 days at least of bad weather. There is a huge storm on the Pacific sending waves of clouds to the continent. Saturday night, I went to se...

Our next destination was Pucon. Pucon is a little town in Chile that just happens to be right next to a huge freakin volcano called the Villarica. For some reason I was the only one that got a little freaked out about being so close to the volcano but I just had to deal with it. The hostel that we stayed at in Pucon was a really fun one. It is r...

Today would be a 7hr bus ride to Pucon from Puerto Montt, a bit of a milk run as we were stopping at many small towns along the way. Nadine would be climbing Volcano Villarrica without Theo, as his leg injuries were still causing him a lot of problems.

Pucon is stunning - a massive lake and a perfect snow covered cone shaped smoking volcano. We got the bus there (nearly got off too early in Villarica which is about 20k down the road - we had our bags off and needed to bang on the door of the reversing bus when we realised!). Pucon seems to be the adventure sports capital of the region - raftin...

Woke up to sunrise over the mist and mountains as we approach Pucon. We arrive on time and try to find our hostel, Donde German. Dave´s sis, Jane, used to work here and hence knows German and Marie Elena, the owners, very well. The hostel is fab, feels just like home. We have our own little cabinlike room each with lovely beds, tv and bathroom c...

Hey everyone... Sorry to take so long to write a new blog. It's actually great to be harassed by people to write a new one. I've been avoiding writing a new entry because I was feeling really annoyed with this site. I still haven't been able to get the rest of my Peru pics up yet, but that is most likely because of the computer we have at the ap...