On the way to the south of Chile: Valdivia / Puerto Varas / Scenic flight from Puerto Montt to Punta Arenas

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From Pucon we went on to Valdivia. A small student city, where many young people live. There we couchsurfed at Juan's place. He was literally providing us more than just a couch. He was even cooking salmon for us - typical for Chile 😉 So all the way it was really nice to stay at his place and to meet him and his friends. We had a lot of fun hanging around, joking and of course seeing what happens in the nightlive of this lively city. So thank you once again Juan for these two days in your house in Valdivia! And thanks as well to Juan and his friends for the great laughs and... for the patience with my modest spanish knowledge 😉

Afterwards we went on to Puerto Varas - also a nice city on the Lake "Todos Los Santos" ("Allerheiligensee"). There we realised how big the influence of Germany and Austria on this region is/has been. By the way there we met Padre Jose Neudorfer from Neukirchen/V/Austria who has been living in Chile for some 50 years and showed us well around Puerto Varas.

On Easter Sunday we took a flight from Puerto Montt to Punta Arenas. We had a great weather and thus it was a really scenic flight over the southern part of Chile with a stunning view over its fjords, sounds, glaciers, woods and plains.

So Punta Arenas, a city with a somehow arctic flair, was more or less our starting point for the southern area of South America called Patagonia, stretching over Argentinia and Chile. Here the temperatures are rather cold and we did not go to Tierra del Fuego as it lies even further in the south (the most southern point in the world beside the nearby antarctica!) and therefore faces even lower temperatures.

Greets from the deep south!
HenC

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Photos

Coming to Valdivia
a rather small very nice student city.

Kunstmann - a German beer brewed in Valdivia
more or less as a result of the colonial times

this one´s looking really drunk!
too much of Kunstmann probably ;)

Homero´s Sandwich - Los Simpsons are very popular in Chile
(@ Andrea: i hab eam wieder gfundn! duerft eam recht guat gehn dem Homer ;)

Couchsurfing at Juan's place
Juan (in the middle) was giving us a nice home. Some of his nice friends Felipe (left) and Walter (right) were coming over too.

Couchsurfing at Juan's place
Chrisi, Rene, HenC, Felipe

The hot-dog house
... on the way home from the club a classical must-have: "un completo" - a hot dog with roast onions, avocado and sauces! - Me gusta mucho! :)

Street soccer in the cage
...that´s were talents are born

Coming to Puerto Varas
nearby "Nueva Braunau" - due to the german/austrian influence in this region - but why especially Braunau??