23:30 - This morning we had a lazy start. The bus picking us up for the airport was not due until 11.15. Just as well as after getting back late from Chiloè I was up late uploading the pictures and Sunitta was more chatty than normal and kept asking me questions...she has yet to understand that if I reply in monosillables I don't really want to talk and I should learn to tell her to shut up. Anyways, after breakfast I repacked my luggage and went down to the sup...

00:00 - A very long and wet day today! We left the hotel after breakfast at around 8am and have just got back to our rooms. We were driven by Rafa (our driver for the last two days) onto a ferry about an hour away from Puerto Varas. It's on the Atlantic Ocean side. The ferry takes about 20/25 minutes and then you land into Chiloè. I had great expectations for the day, as the island is very pretty and all the houses are built with wooden shingles and are all in d...

22:00 - We left Pucon early this morning on a public bus in the direction of Puerto Varas on lake Llanquihue (one of the largest lakes in south America). We arrived a little earlier than normal and after dropping off our luggage at the hotel we went for a quick empanada and then onto the Vincent Perez Rosale national park to see some rapids/falls. Water on water as it has rained all day long unfortunately. It would have been a lot prettier in the sun I'm sure. T...

23:00 - Mmmmm... So... Egged on by Phil and Sally during the Pato Andino trip, I had actually signed on for climbing to the top of the Villarrica vulcan. One of the most active vulcanos in Chile but perfectly safe to climb. On a good day you get amazing views from the top of this perfect cone. So off I went at 6.15 this morning to meet Claudio at Summit Chile. He was to be our guide and by the end of the day my walking stick :-). Me and Tina (from Finland and a r...

23:00 - We left Santiago this morning for Pucon. We flew first to Temuco and then drove through Villarica to Pucon. We got there rather late at about 3.30pm and Toby hadn't been able to keep in touch with the rafting people to see if they were going to do a 5pm start, so I had to let the rafting go... I had told him on the first day at the briefing, so I was rather disappointed and opted to go to the hot springs with 4 of the others. I also had some difficulty fi...