Pucon, Chile


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March 4th 2009
Published: March 19th 2009
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After Millawapi, we took a bus 2 hours from Conaripe to Pucon, Chile, another small, pretty town in the middle of the mountains on a lake called El Lago Villa Rica but MUCH more touristy. It is just on the other side of the volcano Villa Rica but much closer to it. A LOT to do here and a ton of tourists... again like in Iguazu there are SO many Israelis and we hear Hebrew just about everywhere w... Read Full Entry



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El Volcan Villa Rica

in the morning it is very cloudy so we could only see within about 200 ft around us
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El Volcan Villa Rica

first 1,000 or so meters of the trek looks pretty much like this
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El Volcan Villa Rica

the top of the volcano
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El Volcan Villa Rica

summit with the volcano in the background
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El Volcan Villa Rica

view... very high up in the sky in the clouds
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El Volcan Villa Rica

planes go cruising right over the top... i think they take tourists to see the volcano
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El Volcan Villa Rica

Bo at the bottom of one of the shutes- the way we got down the icy part was by sliding down shutes on our butts- SO much fun... it took 4-5 hours to hike up and only an hour and a half to go down
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El Volcan Villa Rica

to top it off, we saw a Condor as we were coming down the volcano- they are only found in the Andes mountains in Chile, Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia- really pretty... and HUGE- this picture does not do them justice in terms of their size



19th March 2009

That's awesome! The volcano and ice trek looks like your at the top of the world...beautiful views! It looks like a challenging trek...you guys look great! Love the pics...miss you! Hi to Bo and Amos...love, mom

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