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 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:42:15 +0000 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:42:15 +0000 Here we are in Frutillar we have had two days here for a bit of bike and body maintenance.Below are blogs from Mike V Bones and Gerardo.Cheers RoscoHola aqu estoy otra vezPuerto Guadal to CoyhaiqueLeaving Puerto Guadal we were immediately into a bumpy dirt road which turned out to be a short cut onto Ruta 7 Carretera Austral which was actually not that much less bumpy. This was the route http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-457916.html From Castro we took a bus directly to Peurto Varas skipping Puerto Montt which is an unattractive place with little to see or do.Happily the weather was being kind to us again when we arrived it was cold but clear and dry we can live with that. Like all of the lakes and rivers in this part of the world the water here is beautifully clear and clean but very cold although amazingly we did see http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-452536.html We are in Pt. Varas Chile right now. Just visited the most beautiful riverwaterfalls I have ever seen. Saltos de Petrohue...jet boat was closed because it has been raining A LOT and the river was raging. That means snow up high and so we are heading to Santiago on the night bus 11 hrs to try and catch the storm in Valle de Nevado. There is so much in Chile that we havent been able to se http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-428452.html OK this is little Germany with the beauty the road the moto and the perros.. oh and the beautiful woman I left in Santiago to see all this.. but we are still talking CHEEEECK IT OUTTTT Puerto Varas Frutillar and Lago Llanquillue.......... http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-416961.html Hi thereWell we arived in Puerto Varas on Wednesday morning after crossing over the scenic snowy Andes Mountains by bus. We left Bariloche at 8am very very sadly and crossed into Chile. The bus was supposed to take 7 hours but we arrived into Puerto Varas at around 12pm gaining an hour as Chile is one hour behind we suspect it didn't take as long as intended because they probably take into http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-405512.html How big is Chile Before this trip I had an idea that it was skinny and long with no real sense of size other than it was not too big. In actuality it is huge I ended my last post saying that there were 2 volcanoes just outside my hostel and around the corner. That is not entirely true sorry There are actually 4 volcanoes. Before we left we had a beautiful sunset view of all four of them at http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-403533.html I think a great way to sum up where we are is that I can not compare it to anything I have ever seen before. It's not really that different its just a conglomeration of other things like what I would imagine big Southern Plantations looking like if they were located in Northern Oregon near the coast that produced immensely dense SubTropic rain forest or something. I mean really it is crazy stuff http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-402853.html We left Argentina for Chile on a bus that crossed over the Andes in brilliant winter sunshine. As we got closer to the Chilean border grey clouds covered the sky and a light ran began to fall. The first place we visited in Chile was a small town called Puerto Varas which stands on a lake with a couple of volcanoes on the farshore. Unfortunately low cloud and mist covered the volcanoes. They http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-400498.html From Bariloche we crossed the Andes and the border into the final country of my trip CHILE. The Andes are beautiful and snow capped and apparently Chile is the Volcano capital of the world. Volcanos are everywhere including two near Puerto Varas our next stop on the journey.Puerto Varas is about six hours by bus from Bariloche. On rgw map it looks like a straight line but the roads obviou http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-399167.html 1st day on Navimag we checked in at 9pm we all got herded to the shiprooms got sorted out and an orientation in the lounge room then off to bedmy roomies are David from Switzerland and British docotorSimon who just volunteered for Doctors without borders in Chad and Niger.The next morning woke up to use the toilet see some beautiful colors in the sky nice sunrise i thought went back to bed http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-393629.html On sat Ill be flying to PUNTA ARENAS and Im so excited because it means that i'll finally be in SOUTHERN PATAGONIA...my dream place of all times. Eventhough i'm going in the wrong season it certainly means hardly any tourists Maybe I can have the mountains all to myself. But I guess that means having to hike alone. I hope not. Claudia and maps don't mix too well so I guess I ll have http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-391425.html Puerto VarasWe arrived in Puerto Varas Chile yesterday after a very scenic bus trip over the Andes from Bariloche.Our plan was to climb the Osorno volcano at least up to snow line but the high cost for a compulsory guide prompted a change of mind.Instead we managed to communicate well enough to catch a local bus to the town of Petrohue and a lake called Lago Todos los Santos. A very pleasant cr http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-383467.html Dear Friends last week end I went with some friends to Huilo Huilo area located in the Lake Ditrict we spend the weekend there the reservation is just lovely and counts with many different trekking trails inside.We stay in Hotel Baobab which is just different ad count with all the confort you imagine inside of a bilogical reservation. We book the hotel plus other arrangement with Protourschi http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-378534.html For a change I thought I would give the gospel a miss and enlighten you to a few other developments over the last week......So expense number 1. We received a lovely email from our campervan company highlighting that everything was not well with our New Zealand account. In fact there was an outstanding balance that was owed to them and inturn owed to the local bill. Yes after driving a spo http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-378285.html Heute habe ich bei perfektem Wetter meinen ersten 2870er bestiegen Genannt Volcano Villarica war dieser Berg ueberdies noch ein aktiver Vulkan mit Gletscher. Bei traumhaftem Wetter kann ich die Alpinisten gut verstehen das so etwas zur Sucht ausarten kann. klarer Himmel Sonne und es war sehr sehr warm auch fuer mich War mit einer sehr kompetenten franzoesischen Touragentur unterwegs mit e http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-368231.html Although this says Puerto Varas its the closest place on here to where we actually were for this entry which was Petrohue. The journey from Ancud to Petrohue took 3 buses and a ferry taking me back to the days in Central America where you had to take multiple bus journeys to get places I'd got quite into the habit here of jumping on a bus and ending up exactly where I wanted to beAnyway we http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-366148.html Hello from Steph. I'm making a guest appearance at writing the blog so it may not be up to the usual standardsWe have had a really good time since leaving Ushuaia and have made up for all the overnight bus trips and dodgy hostels with a bit of comfort starting with the Mare Australis. This was a 3 day cruise to Punta Arenas in Chile on a smallish boat with 132 passengers from 19 countries i http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-365092.html Ein herziges Doerfchen mit ca. 30000 Einwohner. Viele Chilenen verbringen hier Ihre Ferien. An Restaurant's und Kaffee's mangelt es nicht.Einen Tag verbrachten wir am Strand des Sees bei angenehmen 28 Grad. Am anderen Tag fuhren wir mit dem oeffentlich Bus nach Puerto Montt um diese Stadt zu erkunden. Ausser der Hafenanlage mit den Fisch und Marktstaenden gibt es hier absolut nichts zu sehen.Wir http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-364830.html Pri odjezdu z Puconu nam v autobuse pousti neuveritelnou japonskou komedii s fotbalovou tematikou neco jako kungfu fotbal kdo nevidel neuveri velmi vtipne hlavne ale asi pro Japonce. Jedeme na rozhrani dvou narodnich parku do mista doporuceneho jednim Americanem ze Santiaga. Mame jeho dokonale propracovany navigacneinformacni letak s preklepy takze uz na autobusaku vypadame jako paka kdy http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-359927.html Day 639 28.12.08After a pretty uneventful bus ride of sleeping reading and a bit of Harry Potter we pulled into the bus station in Puerto Varas by mid afternoon. As a former German Colony Puerto Varas has maintained a very different look and feel to other towns in South America. The architecture is the first and most obvious difference with coloured shingle clad buildings lining the streets g http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Varas/blog-358527.html