The Lake

Lakes & Volcanoes

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February 3rd 2009
Puerto Montt is a town about 1000 km´s 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 ... read more

South America » Chile » Los Lagos » Puerto Montt

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Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more