Puerto Varas Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Sunday22nd March Santiago to Southern Chile by bus "Pachamama Bus". The bus picked us up 9am , it was a 12 seater bus and the passengers were backpacker types- 2 couples , one from Switzerland and one older couple from Australia ( interestingly from Kalamunda Perth WA) , 2 girls from Melbourne Australia and a young Irish couple. It was nice gett...

The next day we decided to take the hire car to Chile, just over the other side of the mountains from Bariloche. Just over the other side is still hundreds of kilometres away in these gigantic countries so it did take most of the day. On the way, we stopped at another beach that was beautiful beyond belief. The weather has been so sunny and warm...

I arrived in Puerto Varas on Monday with Cecile, a Swiss girl that I met first in my Hostel in Puerto Natales and then on the Navimag ferry, and a few guys that we met on the ferry. Puerto Varas is a real tourist town, but full of Chilean tourists as opposed to gringos! It´s really pretty, set on the lakeshore with mountains and volcanic peaks o...

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...

Feel a wee bit dizzy just now! In 10 days visited 4 different cities in Argentina!! So on a bit of a whirl wind tour at the moment trying to squeeze in as much as possible before heading to Antarctica and then north to Central America on the 19th Dec! So yesterday I took a boat/bus combo tour across the Andes to Chile! It was a really clear morn...

It was another interesting trip on the bus over into Chile. I had been umming and ahhing on wednesday as to whether to stay in Bariloche for another day or make the move, as I really liked the place. But when I woke, it was once again raining and I figured it was probably a good opportunity to get on the road. The rain did not stop the whole 8 h...