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...

We had planned to take a trip to Chiloé National Park and fortunately the weather had improved, it was still a bit overcast but at least it had stopped raining. We made our way across town to the rural bus station and managed to get the last seats on the 10am bus just as it was pulling out. It took 1.5 hours to drive across the island to the park on the west coast. We passed through nice countryside, small villages and along the side of Lago Cucao. The wea...

Breakfast in Hotel Esmeralda is served on the 4th floor with huge windows giving a great view to sea and the church. The view was not so great this morning though because it was still raining. Breakfast was quite good by Chilean standards. Apart from the Nescafe coffee, we were given yoghurt, toast, ham, cheese plus a couple of cookies and a large slice of cake. We met Carlee and Andy, as arranged, at 11am at the Rural bus terminal to take a bus to Achao on Isl...