Picturesque Ancud sits on a curving bay that can capture your heart as surely as the finest symphony. 

Getting here was interesting, though. We're up at 4 to catch a taxi to the Santiago airport for our flight to Puerto Montt, then being ever thrifty and still reeling a bit from our splurge in Merlo, we take a backpacker's bus into Puerto Montt to the bus terminal, then another bus that will take us all the way to Ancud, which actually isn't all that far, but involves a ferry crossing.

Now we're standing around at the Ancud terminal about to flag a taxi to our hostel when a very kind señor asks us if we have a place for tonight, and when we tell him yes, we're staying at 13 Lunas (13 Moons) he explains that all we have to do is cross the street.
 
There was our hostel right there. Well, that was easy.



The afternoon was spent walking around town.