David decided to sleep in this morning while Maria went for an early breakfast at Cassis with Carlee and Andy. The breakfast menu was good - a croissant filled with Philadelphia cheese & smoked salmon, eggs with bacon, orange juice and real coffee; and all that was just for one person. We needed to get some Argentinian pesos before we head back to Argentina again and were hoping to get a decent exchange rate in Puerto Varas. But there were no Argentinian pe...

After a quick breakfast we headed out across town to the bus stop for the 8:30am service to Petrohué and Parque Nacional Vicente Pérez Rosales. The park protects 251,000 hectares including numerous celestial lakes and snow-capped volcanoes dominating the skyline. The weather was beginning to clear as we drove around Lago Llanquehue before heading inland towards Petrohué giving great views of lake and mountains. We hopped off the bus 6km before th...

We were heading back to Puerto Varas today. We had booked front row seats on the 11:40am bus so we had luxury of a lazy morning at the hotel. The bus journey was comfortable and we had slightly better views because the sun had finally come out. We had arranged to return to Casa Azul so it was easy to retrace our steps from the bus station, through the back streets, to the hostel in a few minutes. It was pleasantly warm in Puerto Varas and we were able to walk...

The alarm went off way too early, the sun was only beginning to rise but it was a beautiful clear day and we were in two minds as to whether we could have taken the cruise/bus trip instead of just the bus. We were saving heaps of money not doing the cruise, but there was still the doubt that it might have been awesome. Too late to change our minds though, our taxi arrived as promised at 6.45am to pick us up and take us to the bus station for the 7.30am Via Bari...