Our 6 hour trip on the bus was well taken care of with a hefty amount of sleep (I wonder why?!) ... and watching Transformers on the tv - IN ENGLISH! (very rare!  Most of our viewing options so far have been old Steven Segal & Dolph Lundgren movies, in Spanish & generally with no subtitles). Peurto Varas was a really nice town, righ...

We flew from Punta Arenas to Peuro Montt where we had great fun in broken spanish with the rent a car man. Dan had organised the car hire but between our spanish and his english none of us knew what was going on when we collected it. We headed from the airport to Puerto Varas about half way from where we were due to pick Sarah and...

A short bus trip across the Andes from the Argentinian lakes distict found us in the Chilean lakes district - apart from there being lots of lakes, the main difference is that on this side of the Andes there are volcanos as well.  We stayed in a cabin on a lake next to Volcan Osorno - a perfect conical shaped volcano, which made for some sp...

Well I´ve now been away from home for about 3.5 months, yeah i know went by fast eh? I hope everyones enjoyed the photos, theres also stories on travelpod.com user name senorbrian. Anyways When im not exploring new cities paragliding in the andes, or climbing active volcanos in southern chile, Chances are, Im spending an Insain amount of time on...

We left Valdavia and headed further south stopping first in Puerto Montt.  Puerto Montt is the departure point for places further south including the Torres del Paine and Puerto Natales where there are breaking glaciers and lagoons.  Unfortunately as we have no cold weather clothing or the time this is the furthest south we a...

We decided to head to Puerto Varas as we fly out of Puerto Montt tomorrow and the airport is not too far from here.  Puerto Montt is supposed to be awful so we headed for somewhere with better reviews. The bus journey took about 2.5 hours again.  The time flew by as we met another English person, Steven who was on his own and we got ch...

Puerto Varas is a small little city close to Puerto Montt.  All the books recommend it over the busy Puerto Montt.  The town is situated on a lake across the Volcano Osorno.  It would be absolutely beautiful, if we could see it among the low clouds.  (Actually, we did get to see it for about 5 min and took the opportunity to ...

After another long day of travel, this time by air, we had finally arrived in Chile. It was good to have flown this time but 3 transit stops in between did take it out of us. Two of those stops were in desert cities in the middle of nowhere and we were quite annoyed in having to get off the plane at the first transit stop to have our hand luggag...

Another 6 hour bus journey further south took us to the town of Puerto Varas, 1000kn south of Santiago.Temperatures have dropped, its time for two fleeces. Puerto Varas is a typical alpine town located on the shores of Lake Llanquihue, founded by Germans in 1845 .....so great chocolate to be found! If it wasnt so cloudy and wet there are 2 ...