Puerto Varas

... and the Chilean Wine Country, ring in the New Year at the exclusive Vina del Mar coast, head south to the Lake District near Puerto Montt, then continue to Patagonia to hike and tour in Torres del Paine National Park. A few of us will then board the ...

... change.  A driver met us at the airport and transferred us to the beautiful Hotel Bellavista in the small neighboring resort town of Puerto Varas.  Upon checking in to the hotel, yet again, we had the best room on the top floor in the right ...

... 1 heure pour passer la douane (comme d habitude, les douaniers chiliens font du zele et countrolent tous les bagages), nous arrivons a Puerto Varas, un charmant petit village de vacances au bord d un lac avec le volcan Osorno en guise de panorama. L ...

... nbsp; Still it was a nice walk and took us up to the top of a hill that overlooks the lake and town.  In Lonely Planet, Puerto Varas was described as the up and coming town in Chilean Lakes District.  It still needs to do a fair bit to live up ...

... a little nicer. We had booked ourselves into a hostal & were lucky to be given a flat-like room with a little kitchenette. Since Puerto Varas (and all parts of Chile for that matter) is expensive, we decided to make use of the kitchenette in our room to ...