Per fi ens venen a buscar, són les 6 del matí i anem en bus cap al Volcà. L´entrada al parc és una petita pista de paisatges interessants, làrix i lengues. Aquestes hores no es fa gens fàcil estar desvetllat, pero els paissatges em fan poc a poc obrir els ulls. Tenim un guía i ens explica com portat el piolet i com hi pujarem, no hi ha molta neu...

Crossing the beautiful scenery of the Andes I arrived in Puerto Montt on the Chilenean seaside on Sunday afternoon. The town was nice, but nothing special, so I only stayed for one night and went on to Pucon on Monday. The area between Puerto Montt and Pucon is known as the Lake District, so I drove past a million of beautiful lakes on the journ...

Tuesday 10th - Went into town after breakfast with Amanda (Irish girl) to check out tour prices and see what's about. Pucon is quite pretty, but it's really small town - only really one main street with masses of tour companies, restaurants and outdoor clothing type shops in it. There's an active volcano in Pucon which is supposed to be amazing ...

Back to business. I take the morning bus to Parque Huerquehue, an hour from Pucon. They run several times per day in the summer but are on a reduced schedule now. I ask the tourist office, bus ticket office and bus driver what time they return tomorrow. 3 different answers. I go for the driver's response. It limits what I can do on a 2 day trek ...

So... I'm sure Pucon has a vast array of delights to offer, but my main reason for going there was to try my hand at skydiving (courtesy of my kind parents and grandad for my birthday). I came down with flu the day we travelled there and was feeling too cr*ppy to do much for most of the four days, but reckoned that jumping out of a plane wouldn'...

The drive from Santiago to Pucon wasn´t as long as we thought it would be, so we got into Pucon at about 4pm. There were lots of trees so we could set up camp with Shade for the morning. Leanne went to find out prices for trekking the volcano (there is an active volcano just behind town, which you can climb to see lava...supposed to be amazing),...

We left at 7am from Santiago. We visited a winery on route and I think its fair to say that even though it had premium grand reserve written on the bottle it was definitely a wine that need 10 beers proceeded before it. No one really purchased any wine as everyone was pretty much disappointed. We arrive at Pucon just after 8pm so everyone was ve...

Hi! So, was the 14 hour flight worth it for the view of the Andes as we flew into Santiago. Steve says no but it was pretty spectacular (he was a bit annoyed because the air hostess had run over his foot). Staying in Pucon "the adventure capital of Chile". And we´ve already climbed our first Volcano...smoking and everything. Mt Villarica 2800m. ...

I had heard theat buses in South America were a bit rough, however they seemed to be comfortable to me as the scenery is lovely and movies are played the whole time. After my first infamous overnight South American bus experience I found myself in the beautiful lake district with a huge snow covered volcano pulsating over the town. Steam from th...

Hola amigos! Just a quick post as I type this in a busy internet cafe on a keyboard with an elusive question mark. To my right through the door I can see Villarica, the 3000m volcano which is smoking away. Climbed this yesterday. Not bad. The views of the lake district of Chile and its forests were impressive, and the climb up quite a good work ...