A few weeks ago, I finally made it to Valdivia, which is actually a somewhat known destination, in contrast with many of my other travels (it scores a whole five pages in my travel book...or four and a half, at the very least). It's a pretty university town surrounded by various rivers and little islands with old fortresses. Sure, they have older ones in Florida, but they're not too bad here in Chile either. It's slowly growing more commercialized - there's a huge casino - but it's definitely still got that charm, without the Beaver Creek feel I got in Pucon.
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