Hi! I'm in Puerto Varas - it's wednesday today and we got here Monday afternoon and are leaving lunchtime today to go to Pucon. Puerto Varas is 20km away from Puerto Montt which is one of Chile's important Ports. It's also very close to Chiloe Island where we went yesterday to see the Penguins! We got a bus there and a ferry to the island. It was a really strange mix - rolling hills and meadows with lots of grazing cows and sheep, an amazing coa...

Hola! Well yesterday we all went on a tour of the mountains and lakes around us. The bus picked us up early - 8:30am and we got back about 7pm so its was a full day excursion. It was optional but we all decided to do it. We were on the bus for a lot of the time but we stopped quite often at lookouts and to stretch our legs. We also did 3 hikes/walks, all about an hour or so. The first one was quite steep and went up a hill to an amazing waterfall - I forget the...

Hi! Well the photo is from Chile but that's what it looks like around here anyway.. I met up with the tour on Wednesday and just spent another day looking around the city. There's 12 in our group, plus a tour guide and 2 trainee tour gruides, but as I'm doing a combination of tours, people will change at each capital city. But there are 4 people that will be with me until I get to Lima. Went to a barrio (suburb) called Palermo which is where all the...

Hi! Well the photo is from Chile but that's what it looks like around here anyway.. I met up with the tour on Wednesday and just spent another day looking around the city. There's 12 in our group, plus a tour guide and 2 trainee tour gruides, but as I'm doing a combination of tours, people will change at each capital city. But there are 4 people that will be with me until I get to Lima. Went to a barrio (suburb) called Palermo which is where all the...

HiOk, I take back what I said yesterday.. Today I walked around and got to see a very different Buenos Aires. When I wrote yesterday I had only been to the bank and back, and the streets were literally bare but then in the afternoon I walked around this area - San Telmo - and had a look at the antiques market, which was amazing, so much jewellery, vintage handbags and shoes I could have happily bought but I restrained msyelf. I also walked down to the area by the...