Our bus to Puerto Natales (back in Chile) took 6 hours including a very frustrating border crossing where the authorities confiscated my apple! Despite this being the 3rd time we've crossed into Chile I'm not getting used to it - we'll miss Chile but not the border crossings. We arrived in Puerto Natales just in time to find our hostel and make it to the free Torres del Paine National Park talk at Erratic Rock hostel. The information session lasted for nearly two...

After arriving back on the mainland from Chiloé we drove back to the Lake District and stopped in Puerto Varas for some excellent lunch including a massive piece of chocolate cake in a beautiful cafe. An hour further east took us to a place called Ensenada where we wanted to stay. The town (if you can call it that) is nothing more than a few places to stay, restaurants and nothing else but it's situated on a beautiful lake and right below the amazing Osorno volc...

Driving south from Frutillar, the road ran out and we had to catch an expensive ferry across to Chiloé. A bridge is being built but we were five years too early. We drove south for quite a distance then turned west and along a bumpy gravel path through pleasant countryside to the habitation of Chupe where we hoped to stay the night. After driving carefully along the gravel for quite a while, we decided that it would be best just to stay one night, with the other...

On our second car day we headed east back through the Osorno and towards the lakes and volcanos. We, or maybe I should say I, was on the lookout for a German Brewery but when we eventually found it it wasn't open for another hour. I couldn't convince Katy to wait till 1pm, by the side of the road, so we continued onto the town of Entre Lagos and found a brilliant place to stay on the lake with a really friendly host, Maria. She recommended we eat just down the ro...

We sadly left Pucón and its volcano behind and caught the three and a half hour bus to Osorno. There is nothing special about Osorno apart from it was the cheapest place we found to rent a car from. We were really excited about having a car, for a week, to explore the Chilean Lake District. So excited that Katy named our VW Gol, Gonzales. (We thought we were going to get a Golf but ended up with a Gol but it was a great car.) I was a bit lacking in confidence as...