February 8, 2011
For several days we are in Pucon, Chile!, But we went so busy that we had our time on any entries. Today, however, we did a lighter day without long trips, which turned out to be completely accurate, because today is so hot that you can barely breathe, which is not conducive to physical effort. And now just started to thunder and rain, so maybe a little cooled down.
from entering Chile there was no problem, it took us even less time than in the transit bus. We we went of course taken over documents on the fulfillment of the car, especially since everything was in English, but at the end of some clerk took the paper from us and smile, crumpled up and threw it into the trash, because it turned out to be completely unnecessary.
So, we are in Chile and follow the trail of volcanoes. The first night we had in the tiny village of Ensenada, which indeed the surrounding volcanoes, most of them, moreover, active from time to time (luckily for us, not now.) Nam favorite was the volcano Osorno, who looks the most classically beautiful snow-cone, although they did not smoke. There we were able to see it in all its glory on the first day, when we went over the waterfalls Petrohue and Lake Todos los Santos, but the next day the whole been revealed, and We were glad of his views all the way to Puerto Varas, where We stopped for lunch and shopping. In Puerto Varas we found cafes also a familiar sounding name "Mama", where Anna tried to cake mommy, a delicacy bet. You could also buy his own chocolate production, and logos bet there are a krakowiaczka and krakowianki. We thought someone from maintenance will speak Polish, but none of that. Later, in Pucon, we met a very nice Poles in Australia, through friends who know the owners of this cafe and it turned out that they do not have nothing to do with Poland (though often to her workout), and the name was created due to copyright problems with the English version. But it's still nice, especially with the drawings hanging in the middle of the Polish cities. Then we moved
to Puconu, very focused on tourist village at the foot of the volcano Villarrica constantly fuming, which we could admire the way already, especially since we went to tour widoczkami, but it is partially dirt road, whom there is no shortage. But our car, despite its small size (Renault Clio) is performing bravely and then under each gore on the most bumpy ride.
Pucon overwhelmed us, the numbers of tourists, we feel right at peak season in Mielno or Leba, especially that there is even a beach, a black for a change, but probably equally crowded like ours in the summer, as shown by the amount of garbage left in the evening, because only at this time odwazylysmy at her go.
Escaping from the crowds so we went to the first day of the National Park Huerquehue, where we ran a ground mole, and unfortunately the road, but somehow we got. We went on the trail leading to the lakes, from which you can also get nice views of the Villarrica volcano and its surroundings. Us a little while, our Lonely Planet przewwodnik cheated because it was written there, the trail is 7 km and the transition of the whole colic takes 4 hours. It turned out that it is four hours one way!, And it also goes a very long uphill from a considerable height difference zigzags, so zasapalysmy August incredibly, no and no we did the whole route, because too late we went at him, but even so we have a very liked and views, and lakes, and characteristic of the surrounding trees, known as Araucaria, a monkey tree, such as if a Christmas tree, just a little different.
Yesterday we went to the Villarica National Park, which lies on the slopes of the volcano. Us a little disappointed in the Park organization, since the guard, who took money from us (as usual fee for foreigners is almost two times greater than for the "natives") had no or maps, or even not able to indicate to us some nice route to polazenia. The only thing we suggested it cruised to a ski resort on the slope of the volcano (which is a lot of fun to go there in the summer, I do not know), or take a trip to the caves volcano, which of course are private and need to pay extra. Luckily I managed to find out when entering the camp, the caves near the trail is also a nice trail called craters, from which you are pretty views. We could of course be very ambitious (and have a lot better condition and much fatter wallet) and decide on the entrance to the top Villarrici, where you can look in the crater, but it's probably not our party, especially with starting at 5 - o'clock in the morning. Moreover, I do not regret that because from what I've seen by a telephoto lens, the crowds are gathered there, and we we had the whole trail to yourself. A trail was very nice, ran up the partly through the forest, and partly after the lava solidified, in the distance you could see the remaining area mountains and volcanoes, and over us smoked Villarrica.
Today, as I mentioned, dalysmy yourself to play and we went only to the Ojos del Caburgua waterfalls, where he was spinning a lot of people, but we were a little przeszlysmy up and down, which in today's heat was enough for that, so as nice sweat.
Tomorrow we are already back to Argentina, admiring another volcano, Lanin, in the national park of the same name. We do not know just how it will be overnight, because we could not book anything this time on the Internet, but because we have a car, so probably something we can find, even if it was supposed to be farther from the center. So again in the way!
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