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Location Date South America 
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Location Date Santiago 1483660800 Vina Del Mar 1483574400 La Serena 1483228800 Taltal 1483056000 Tocopilla 1482969600 Pica 1482796800 Iquique 1482624000 San Pedro De Atacama 1482364800 Antofagasta 1482019200 Bahia Inglesa 1481932800 Termas De Socos 1481673600 Castro 1452124800 Puerto Montt 1451779200 Hornopiren 1451692800 La Ensenada
1451433600 Anticura 1451347200 Puerto Varas 1451088000 Easter Island 1450742400 Hanga Roa 1450569600 Termas El Sosneado 1420502400 Punta Arenas 1419724800 Serrano Glaciar 1419638400 Torres Del Paine 1419552000 Puerto Natales 1419379200 Puerto Hambre 1419206400 Salto Del Laja 1389225600 Volcan Llaima 1389139200 Curacautin 1389052800 Angol 1388880000 Laguna Del Laja National Park 1388793600 Lota 1388620800 Concepcion 1388534400 Termas De Chillan 1388448000 Chanco 1388188800 Quinamavida 1388016000 San Clemente 1387929600 Reserva Nacional Radal Siete Tazas 1387756800 Sewell 1387584000 Pichilemu 1387497600 Coya 1387411200 Rancagua 1387324800 Isla De Maipo 1387238400 Providencia 1387152000 Calera 1387065600
Today was a transit day. Senora Fox passed as we were having breakfast but she didn't stay.
We decided to travel via Puerto Varas today to pick up shopping for the next four nights. It has reliable supermarkets, whereas Ensenada only has village stores and we didn't know what Hornopiren has. It's also New Year's Eve tomorrow and then New Year'sDay and everything tends to shut, even restaurants.
The journey to Puerto Varas was uneventful and we stocked up at Lider. Ensenada is about a 30 minute drive from there. We were staying at Cabana La Sauce (pronounced Sow-say) but though there were lots of Cabanas advertised on the road we couldn't find it. We asked at the petrol station and then at the Carabineros. The police officer was very helpful but we couldn't understand a vehicle he was describing. It turned out it was the Flintstone's car!
With the help of a restaurant worker we found our cabana. It wasn't quite what was advertised. Behind a well kept Mini-supermarket was a large house, mainly abandoned and behind it, a small cabin that look like it used to be the servants quarters. It was freshly renovated and spotlessly clean but really only one large room with beds, a kitchenette and bathroom. The view of the volcano that Booking.com sported turned out to be from the neighbouring restaurant. The back yard was a meter deep in volcanic ash, mostlikely from the eruption of Calbuco earlier this year.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-ame rica-32476797
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-ame rica-32429214
Still it was only for one night. We moved the dining table from the house to the parking lot which gave us magnificent views of Volcan Osorno on a sunny evening. The woman who worked in the supermarket and who had given us the key did not but an eyelid when she retired to her quarters in the big house. It looks like she lives in one room at the back. (Many homes in Chilean tourist areas are holiday homes and have caretaker staff who live is small cabins at the rear.)
We had meant to visit some local waterfalls but the fact it took over an hour to find the cabana meant we called it a day.
We decided to travel via Puerto Varas today to pick up shopping for the next four nights. It has reliable supermarkets, whereas Ensenada only has village stores and we didn't know what Hornopiren has. It's also New Year's Eve tomorrow and then New Year'sDay and everything tends to shut, even restaurants.
The journey to Puerto Varas was uneventful and we stocked up at Lider. Ensenada is about a 30 minute drive from there. We were staying at Cabana La Sauce (pronounced Sow-say) but though there were lots of Cabanas advertised on the road we couldn't find it. We asked at the petrol station and then at the Carabineros. The police officer was very helpful but we couldn't understand a vehicle he was describing. It turned out it was the Flintstone's car!
With the help of a restaurant worker we found our cabana. It wasn't quite what was advertised. Behind a well kept Mini-supermarket was a large house, mainly abandoned and behind it, a small cabin that look like it used to be the servants quarters. It was freshly renovated and spotlessly clean but really only one large room with beds, a kitchenette and bathroom. The view of the volcano that Booking.com sported turned out to be from the neighbouring restaurant. The back yard was a meter deep in volcanic ash, mostlikely from the eruption of Calbuco earlier this year.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-ame rica-32476797
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-ame rica-32429214
Still it was only for one night. We moved the dining table from the house to the parking lot which gave us magnificent views of Volcan Osorno on a sunny evening. The woman who worked in the supermarket and who had given us the key did not but an eyelid when she retired to her quarters in the big house. It looks like she lives in one room at the back. (Many homes in Chilean tourist areas are holiday homes and have caretaker staff who live is small cabins at the rear.)
We had meant to visit some local waterfalls but the fact it took over an hour to find the cabana meant we called it a day.
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