http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Chile , Los Lagos , Puerto Montt en-us Fri, 11 Dec 09 14:19:46 +0000 Fri, 11 Dec 09 14:19:46 +0000 I know my entries have been lacking in quality lately but on the road its just kina hard to sit wonder and worry about stuff. You doubt what you do at times inbetween curiosity and fright but little things keep you going like the slight peek through of sunshine in the middle of the day or the email from a beautiful girl you just got who you left in santiago but it makes it all worthwhile.. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-416931.html Right...here we go again we have lots to tell since we last wrote. After leaving Pucon we hopped on a bus which took us three and a half hours down the road to Valdivia a small German settled town just inland on the river. We only stayed for one night but while we were there we wandered around the local fish market where the fishermen were filleting their catch and tossing the scraps over their http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-384415.html hola So after a 12 or so hour bus ride we finally arrived in puerto montt. We arrived around 8am and had to check in at the navimag at 9am. so just walked over checked our bags and then walked around until we departed at 2pm. puerto montt is small town with not much going on. so not much to say about it. So the navimag trip was good. we were put in 2 bunks in a dorm type room of 22 bunks total http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-379164.html Puerto Montt is a town about 1000 kms south of Santiago. Our reason for heading there was mainly to work out a way down to El Calafate. We only planned to stay a night in Puerto Montt mainly because we wanted to get to South and being holiday season getting buses could be a problem. Everyone in Chile travels over 2 sets of 2 weeks and this was then Our hostel in Puerto Montt had a tour des http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-372651.html We were really indecisive about whether or not to take the navimag boat as we heard lots of mixed reviews about it. Basically the boat is a cargo boat which travels from Puerto Montt to Puerto Natalies in the very south of Chile the gateway to Patagonia. Apparantly the weather can be awful and you can spend the entire trip in your small cabin reading. For 600 each we were not sure if it woul http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-350718.html So we boarded the Navimag ferry. Possibly the most expensive part of our trip overall but as this region of Patagonia is mainly water and the are no roads heading back up north this really is the only way to travel. Billed as one of the highlights of Chile a 4 day and 3 night cruise and I use this word loosely through the Chilean fjords of Patagonia. Starting from Puerto Montt and ending in Pu http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-349666.html Wieder zurueck in Chile erlebten wir ein paar Wechselbaeder der Gefuehle. Innerhalb 1 Woche lachte und weinte unser Reiseherz.Wir kamen zuerst nach Puerto Varas. Hier lachte unser Herz kurzfristig noch. Tolles Wetter mit einem tollen Blick ueber den See Llanquihue auf den Vulcan Osorno empfingen uns. Als wir aber das Hostel bezogen fingen wir an zu weinen. Eine versiffte Bruchbude. Gut es war gue http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-348315.html Chile keeps on getting better and better. We are really glad that we have planned nearly a whole month here. It is a fantastic country especially if you like the outdoors. The Lakes district is about 12 or so hours south of Santiago. We took another overnight bus to get here and again slept pretty well. The buses here are really good and we have not even tried the Premium seats yet as they ar http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-347585.html Hello again friends and famEveryone here is ecstatic for the Obama victory. I am sure things have been crazy there the past few weeks. I can tell you that from this part of the world there is just as much HOPE as we have in the US if not more. There is a hope that there will fially be a change in the US international policies in regards to Latin America and the developing world in general. It wa http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-342974.html Day 114 Tuesday 21st October Finally I leave Puerto MonttWhen I get up in the morning I find out that there will be no hot water to take a shower until 12.30pm so go back to bed and read all morning. Reading a book on the impending fall of communism in China and its an interesting read at least but can't wait to get out of this city and hostel After finally taking a shower head along the h http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-340665.html Day 111 Saturday 18th October Returning to life as a backpacker with a bumpGet up ridiculously early so I can enjoy a bath before I leave......don't know when the next opportunity will be Pack my bags and get breakfast and at shortly after 9am its time to say goodbye to Estancia Huechahue. Jane drives me out to the road and Domingo one of the gauchos waits with me until the bus shows up at 9. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-336539.html Arrived here around 5pm. Looks like a nice port town. Went for a walk along the lake. Had dinner in a nice restaurant on the pier. I had King crab in spinach crepes Kay had the salmon. It went down really well with a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon reserva.19.11.08 We did an excursion that explained the diverse nature close to Calbuco volcano. We also had two Horticulturists from England. This made http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-327435.html Na het uitchecken uit guesthouse Canales del Sur rijden we naar Puerto Montt de laatste 25 km van dit stuk in ieder geval.Eerst maar eens inchecken voor de boot en dan de auto inleveren. Om de tijd te doden lopen we Puerto Montt een beetje door en gaan we in een lokaal cafeetje zitten voor een broodje en koffie. Na de nodige souvenirwinkeltjes zijn we dan toch weer aangekomen bij de boot waar http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-327281.html Mandag d. 7 Juli ChileKrte gennem demarker og skove. Virkelig flot i grnselandet mellem chile og argentina. Hele vores bil blev checket igennem. S er det ogs prvet.Endte i noget som nok bedst kan beskrives som vrende Danmark. Grnne marker som var mindre end i argentina. Som om vi var kommet hjem hvilket ville vre meget kedeligt. Fandt et motel en times tid fra den chilenske grnse som http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-303790.html This is a second attempt at a travel blog the first having been accidentally deleted by me in late March. Without notes or a backup I have done my best to recount my travel and experiences though perhaps with slightly less enthusiasm this round. Lets call this experiment my way of putting out into the public domain the highlights of this particular tour to both avoid repeating myself in emai http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-268276.html So we made it out of Cochomo with all limbs in tack but plenty of scratches to show for it. Oh and a pile of very very dirty clothes. My hiking pants will never look the same again forever carrying Cochomo dirt in the pores of fabric which is kind of nice or memory''s sake. Who needs photos when you can just collect dirt in your clothing instead. Scratch and sniff style. Haha. They do say that http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-267466.html Consider the mullet. No dad not the fish the haircut. Like any rare breed it has pockets of popularity in the case of the mullet these are East London Eastern Europe Australia the deep south of the United States and South America. In all but one of these places the mullet succeeds only in making its owner appear to be a cretin. The mullet can reveal a good many things about the owner inbr http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-259284.html Well we got to Puerto Montt on time with the Pachamamas and so we got tickets for the 4 day 'cruise' to use the word in its lightest sense to Puerto Natales. The ticket included all meals of which we got seconds most days dormstyle bunk bed in lowly C class they separated us from the A's in case we infected them with our low budgets and lectures or movies each day.On the way down we pas http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-255764.html The southern part of Chile is composed of hundreds of tiny islands and only a small strip of mainland. One of the best ways of travelling up the coast is via the Navimag ferry a big cargo ship that has been adapted slightly and I mean slightly to allow tourists to make the trip too. Other cargo included food scrap metal mattresses and sheep We bid a fond farewell to my almost namesake t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-254841.html Liebe LeserWir haben wieder festen Boden unter den Fuessen und sind darueber nicht mal besonders gluecklich. Unsere kleine Kreuzfahrt war naemlich aeusserst angenehm und sie haette fuer unseren Geschmack sogar noch etwas laenger dauern duerfen.Am Anfang war jedoch vor allem eines langes Warten. Da sich eine Woche zuvor ein bdquoUnfallldquo auf der Faehre ereignet hatte eine englische Schausp http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Chile/Los-Lagos/Puerto-Montt/blog-250019.html