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To get to Puerto Varas, we had to fly into Puerto Montt airport, and were transferred by car for 45 minutes to Puerto Varas by a woman trying to sell us every tour under the sun. We stayed at the Vicky Johnson guesthouse, a lovely old place with massive high ceilings and a massive living room to read in. The town of Puerto Varas is very picturesque and we sat by the huge lake enjoying the surrounding views of snow capped volcanoes and local dogs and kids splashing in the lake. We briefly checked out the casino which was not great and did some laundry in the rather dull town. Adventure sports of kayaking and rafting seemed to be the thing to do here.

So the next day we were picked up in the morning and driven 45kms away to the town of Petrohue where we were set up for our kayak trip on Todos los Santos lake (also known as emerald lake) with our guide Isabel, a Swiss immigrant who was a great guide and a strong kayaker. We shared the bus with the 6 white water rafters, who had a great time and I wished we did that as well. The sea kayaking was amazing though and while there were heaps of bugs on the lakes edge, once we were out there it was perfectly calm and tranquil as we spent two hours getting the perfect vantage points of the surrounding snow capped volcanoes, the most spectacular of which is the massive Volcano Osorno it was a great way to spend a sunny morning in the lakes district of Chile.

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