After leaving the Futaleufu valley, we made our way back north, said goodbye to our beloved Bariloche, and crossed the frontera in a unique way into the Los Lagos section of Chile. This area is full of lush green valleys, in contrast to the dry plains of Argentina, and the area is full of sweet volcanoes! Turns out, in this middle area of the Andes, most of the big mountains are in Argentina, and Chile has volcanoes and smaller, but more verdant, mountains (Chile being on the wet side of the Andes) - and volcanoes- a chain of them forming the eastern boundary of the ring of fire around the entire Pacific. Starting in the very Chilean town of Osorno, we spent a few days around Lake Llanquihue and the tiny town of Puerto Octay in
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