Blogs from Villarrica Volcano, Araucanía, Chile, South America - page 3

what a nice (wooded) town......there is more trees in the buildings than in the land....really every house,shop,table,chair,street sign and even traffic lights are all made out of wood.....wierd for a village so close to and active volcano----lol........i (ian) have a really bad flu...and a lot of resting was done here.....j on the other hadn (nothing new here) went out and about.....did the climb up the volcano....came home buggered....we then hired a car and went out to the hot springs....oh so nioce and relaxing........right now we r getting ready to get on a bus ( TUR BUS) (and if it was the same as the one we came down on yippeeeee was so nice like buisness class)!!!!!! and this is the end of our round south america leg.......off to santiago then on a lan chile flight to ... read more

Summary in english: We arrived into Pucon - very touristic village with probably only one highlight - volcano Villarica (very nice). We have not found anything to do here (the path was closed because of snow, everything expensive) and on the next day after our arrival there was nothing to see because of clouds. Z Los Angeles sme sa presunuli do Puconu - miestnej turistickej mekky. Ale nevieme preco je taka popularna, asi len kvoli roznym adrenalinovym zmonostiam, ktore nas az tak nezaujimaju, my sme skor chceli nieco pochodit, ale tu je jedina poriadna a ta bola momentalne zavreta kvoli vela snehu. Navyse do parku sa treba dopravit nejakym taxikom, co je drahe, takze asi ani to by sme nevyuzili aj ked by sme mohli. Sopka je pekna :), ale to stoji len za kratku zastavku. ... read more

Wed. 28th Nov· Monday was a travelling day; an early start to the coach station for 8.30 for the long journey into Chile. The border crossings took time. However the mountain scenery of the Andes en route was stunning. As we were travelling I could see the snow by the roadside, though we had not long come from spring time temperatures. The transformation when we crossed into Chile was dramatic, the landscape changed from scrubland to lush and verdent grassland; there was also a lot of evidence of a better economy: more luxurious houses and newer cars on the roads. Apart from the border corssings we had only one stop before reaching Osorno. I took advantge of that stop to use the services there, however I had to pay to use them; they would not accept ... read more

Don´t cry for me Argentina! That´s it for this beautiful country with so many different landscapes and cultures. We are now in Pucon, Chile.... Hometo an active volcano. Which we climbed... Will tell you more about it. After leaving Bariloche, we head to the Chilean border. While on the bus, we are told we have to finish our food before we get to customs, as the Chilean authorities do not like that you take any meat products, veg or fruit. Too bad... We had a bag full of apples, lemons, bananas to get through to take across to Chile, so we had to stuff ourselves after having our breakfast in Bariloche. The only problem were 2 lemons... What to do with them? The driver suggested we smuggled them and hope for the best. According to him ... read more

Now I'm finally off to somewhere that has been recommended to me time and time again by travelers heading north, Pucon. The town of Pucon is the base for many outdoors activities, especially the ascend to the crater of Volcan Villarrica, the reason I was going. Unfortunately, there were no direct buses between Chillan and Pucon that I could easily find, so I ended up taking a bus to the city of Temuco, changing bus terminals and catching another bus onto Pucon. This ended up being a more costly option, but at least I didn't have to wait around until mid-afternoon to catch a bus out of Chillan. On arrival in Pucon, I had no idea where I was going to stay but did have some ideas and then I was approached by someone from ... read more