Geo: -50.33, -72.3When I arrived to El Calafate on January 24 at 9 PM I was really hungry but had no more money to buy food and all ATM's in El Calafte were out of money... So I went to a pizzaria where I could pay with credit card and had some vegetable soup and an omlette with champignons. Afterwards I went to my hostel and arrived there at around 10:30 PM. I was very tired, my body was exhausted and my legs sour from walking in the heavy wind earlier in El Chaltén. The guy working in the hostel was an idiot : he talked like he's the smartest person in the world and you're stupid, he was incompetent, giving few and short infos and very unpolite... :-( He told me that the minitrekking-tour on ... read more

Geo: -41.256, -73.0065After my tour to La Junta, I went - like promised - to Llanquihue to visit my new friends Rosa, Javier and their son Joachim Vargas. I arrived at the right bus station but unfortunately couldn't remember which street it was, so walked around the streets for half an hour asking everybody if they knew my friends. These people where mostly from Santiago just visiting their family and didn't know anybody in the neighbourhood but one family was really kind and called Rosa and sent her some Whatsapp messages since I had no wifi, but Rosa was no to be reached... At some point I put on my (expensive) internet and sent her a whatsapp that I'm waiting for her at the lagoon. Half an hour later she finally got the message (she had ... read more

Geo: -42.558, -73.9468After a great lunch in Llanquihue, I took a minibus to Puerto Montt and there a bus (Cruz del Sur) to Ancud. My plan originally was to go to Castro and I bought a ticket there, but I had some time in Puerto Montt before my bus left and so I called the travel agency in Castro to see at what time leaves their tour to the Tantauco Park that I wanted to visit. Actually I saw on TV that there were lots of people in Castro this weekend and I was a bit afraid not to get a place in the tour or in a hostel. The hostel was no problem, they had free space, but the travel agency told me that all tours were full this weekend. I was shocked and a ... read more

Geo: -40.17, -71.35On Sunday 10th of January I take the 7:30 AM bus to San Martin de los Andes, which shows up around 7:45 AM. In Pucón there is a bicycle race and the road is blocked fir more than 2 hours, but never mind, we're not in a rush, 8 or 10 hours in the bus, who cares! ;-)At least in that time I can review all Lonely Planet says about San Martin de los Andes, la ruta de los 7 lagos and surroundings. I think 1 1/2 days are much too short but maybe I'll find a nice tour which permits me to see as much as possible. Otherwise I'll try to rent a car and do it on my own.I just read in my book "eat, pray, love" about this all consuming "controll-freak" ... read more

Geo: -35.6751, -71.543After one night in Santiago, I left in a rush (I overslept and had to sent a mail before I could leave...) to get to the Reserva National Altos de Lircay. To get there, I took a 3 1/2 hour-bus to Talca and a 2 hour-bus to Vilches Alto. It wasn't that easy to find a bus going there because nobody knew which bus was going there, but in tge end I was so lucky to find one. The bus-tour was long but the worst was yet to come : a 2 km more or less steep hike to the Administration of the reserve. As if my bagpack wasn't heavy enough, I had to rent a gascooker and food at the bus-stop (the first is imposed by the administration, the second because there is ... read more