http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Chile , Los Lagos , Puerto Varas en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:35:55 +0000 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:35:55 +0000 We arrived in Puerto Varas after our 4 day stint on the Navimag exhausted from doing nothing. We had to spend the first day doing absolutely nothing. This is a lovely small town on lake llanquihue opposite Volcan Osorno in the chilean lake district a very pituresque area.We hired bikes on our second day and cycled 64km to a nearby lakeside town called Frutilla. We found a lovely cafe and shared http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-782518.html Une asado grillade est organise aujourdhui par le proprio de lauberge. Lors de mes passages jusquici lasado avait toujours eu lieu la veille donc cette foisci je vais pouvoir y participer et en plus cest gratuit. Annonce tous ceux quil rencontre pour 14h luimme ne commencera faire chauffer le barbecue qu 16h sachant que ses amis et connaissances narr http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-777194.html Me voici repartie vers le sud direction Puerto Montt o Delphine me rejoint lundi pour un mois. Et Puerto Montt il ny a vraiment rien de joli je lai bien compris. Donc ce sera une pause en chemin ce weekend Puerto Varas 20 min.Je vais peuttre ouvrir un autre thme lac et volcan Puerto Varas est une autre station balnaire situe au bord dun lac et non loin du vo http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-777192.html We left Argentina for Chile by taking the lake crossing from Bariloche Argentina to Pt Varas Chili. It is a multiple boat and bus trip that takes about nine hours. It was an absolutely gorgeous trip with green and blue lakes surrounded by snow covered Andes mountains. What is amazing is this area is the same latitude as Barcelona but has environment similar to the Milford Sound in New Zealand or http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-751854.html In this adventure we cross a border befriend German Psychologists and eat our own weight it tasty tasty seafood. Another stamp in the passport Chile. Eleanor admired the detail on the stamp and the fact that it has both blue and red ink very stylish. It took a while to get here as our proposed route across the Andes was Esquel to Chaiten and then the ferry to the island of Chiloe. However tim http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-751193.html Vacation of a Lifetime Conclusion not http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-749147.html What a difference a day makes Within 24 hours we moved from the warmth and beaches of Rio to the lakes of Bariloche with the snow covered peaks of the Andes Mountains in the background. From sunning ourselves on the beach in Rio to ruggingup in our jackets gloves scarves and beanies for a tour around Lago Nahuel Huapi and National Park we found the the chanage of environment quite dramatic. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-742259.html So goodbye Pucon and our hostel family there it was hugs and kisses all round when we left off on a 5 hour trip to Puerto Varas. More bad Spanish and we arrived an hour later than we thought we would the tour office we were supposed to visit was closed and we managed to trek the 15mins to our hostel to be shown to a room with a snuggling couple in a double bed in the middle awkward. Thinking http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-740640.html January and February are high summer in Chile when Chileans escape in droves from their cities smoggy sweltering Santiago in particular to enjoy their country39s extraordinary natural wealth its lakes its rivers its mountains its beaches.We39d never have guessed as much over the past 6 weeks howeverso out of the way is the Carretera Austral that only a relatively small handful of http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-696503.html Capatins log dated Wed 7th MarchWeather same as yesterday . Cloudy and overcast . Rain. Wind 4 occasional 3 falling. It39 s amazing to think that 24hrs after leaving Puerto Natales and navigating through the fjords no human habitation at all in this desolate yet beautiful land. The journey is 1460km 900 miles and I am wondering if we will see any other human life at all between here and our d http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-695374.html Bruce springsteen streets of philadelfia e o que oico enquanto comeco este post. Estamos neste momento a caminho da Argentina para Bariloche e sao 10 da manha 9 de Janeiro Segunda Feira. O ultimo destino foi Puerto Varas onde ficamos 4 noites mas embora pareca muito na realidade pouco fizemos por varias razoes. Primeiro chegamos Quinta a noite e saimos Segunda hj pelas 8 da manha pelo que http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-682164.html Hi peeps After Patagonia we went north to the lake district for 4 days Region Los Lagos which is located in the central part of Chile. This region is famous for its several extremsports possibilities. After a tranquilo first day on which we hiked to a pass near the Osorno Volcano it was really easy after what we did in Torres del Paine we decided to try out rafting... but not the usual http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-669223.html Puerto Varas was a smallish town on the edge of Lago Llanquihue. We found a nice hostel right near the lake. It was a bit of a walk from the bus station again the LP had lied to us and said the bus station was in town. It was not there was a ticket office there. There was not and never had been a bloody bus station. It did give us a chance to stretch our legs and see the outskirts of th http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-637846.html I was forced to spend a night in Santiago due to the revision of my flight back from Easter Island courtesy of LAN Airlines. It was not all bad as my friend Brian now works at a hostel in Santiago. I stayed the night there kicking it with him Jay and some other forgieners. The night of the fifth I bussed down to Chiloe. It was a seventeen hour ride. I must have slept well because all went smoot http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-611604.html Hello everyone. You must be thinking that we have dropped off the planet because its so long since we have been to our blog. We dont have much time today as we are off to some thermal springs in the Andes for a couple of days in a few minutes. We will update you on our adventures when we have more time. We have had some good times and some bad but overall it has been wonderful. We are bot http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-582372.html Feb 8So today this girls went bike riding. I woke up a little late so they were ready and went without me. It was good they got to have some girl time and I caught up on emails and packed most of my stuff up. When they got back we had some fruit lunch and Denisse and I booked a rafting trip. She had never been and her friend couldnt go so I went with her. It was the same river but a bit cheaper so http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-581037.html Hello everyone we are in puerto varas chile. it is considered part of the lake district in patagonia. i didnt go back to check when i wrote last time but i think we were headed to valparasio. what a cool town valpo was we stayed there for three days and had a great time we stayed at a cute little hostel with stained glass windows and an iron spiral staircase. it was run by three chilian men http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-563749.html Puerto Varas. When handwriting my journal I'd completely forgotten that I'd even been here I wrote that I'd gone straight from Pucon to Bariloche. That's how much of an impact this place had on me. It was a small town and if it hadn't have been raining or there had been something to do I might have enjoyed it more. Ha. We went to an amazing restaurant with great food and brilliant staff thou http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-533615.html A fews days at the tip of Patagonia to rejuvenate was next on our agenda...we travelled to the German settlement of Puerto Varas pop 32000. It was raining when we arrived but the lake view from my room window was still pretty stunning Our hostel was 5 older homes that had been connected by passage ways so we spent some time getting lost as we tried to find our rooms and then each other I was http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-521049.html 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 surround http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-520545.html