Back in Chile now after a bus ride from Usuaia. Have spent a couple of days in Punta Arenas to stock up on camping stuff and the on to Puerto Natalis to head into Torres del Paine national park for 5 days walking and camping.
Was a beautiful trip, did manage to stub my toe really badly on day two though and had trouble walking the rest of the way!! Worth it for the views though.
Since then we have taken the Navimag boat trip up from Puerto Natalis to Puerto Montt. A couple of days in Varas near the Osorno volcano updating this site and visiting the Alerces Andino National Park, lots of hugh trees here but we only managed to find one, should have gon on a very expensive guided trip I guess.
Next was a few days in Valdivia, a coastal towmn with forts to protect the Spanish invaders from invaders. Good brewery there too called Kuntsmann, great honey beer.
Next was on to Pucon, from here we climbed the mighty Villarrica Volcanoe. This was about 1 5 hour climb from the top of the ski lift to see the active crater at the top, amazing seeing the lava bubbling right in front of you. Then you get to slide back down in the snow so going down takes about an hour!!
Then on to Valparaiso, one of Santiagos satelite beachy areas, the town of Vina del Mar has much better beaches and feel to it. Nice place, bloke who ran our hostel ripped us right off for a ride back to the bus station though!!!
After this we headed back into Argentina to the wine region of Mendoza, greta place, met up with John from the Antactic trip there for about a week of visting the mountains, and lots of winery tours and general boozing. Bought a coupke of bottles of seriously good wine for even better prices!!
From here we made our way to Peru.
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