We had a quick stop in Santiago before heading here. Surprised positively. Nice street art also, great parks and exhausting cerros! But not much to tell, we walked around and went totally bananas in the market. So many different fruit, veggie and nut stalls.. We did our first (and last) walking tour, too much history and too little stories.
Pucòn. Paradise in low season, but I can see this place being totally crammed during Jan/Feb. Right by the lake Villarica, amazing volcano just half an hour away, three different national park around. You won't be bored here.
First we thought we would climb the volcano. Snowy cone and you can actually see lava from the top. Villarica errupted in March 2015, keeping climbers away for the next nine months. After that the price increased to 130$ which is pretty harsh just for a daytrip. We desided not to do it. Had amazing daytrip to El Cañi park, perfect snowy day in winter wonderland. Hike was steep but it was totally worth it, view from the top was superb! I only wished I would have had snowboard to come down :) We took a tour to Geotermatics ,one of the top 10 thermals in the world! Amazing, such a beautiful place. 16 pools with water around +40°C. Three hours went so quickly watching the stars and lying on the pools.
I feel old, boring and uptight. Really. I don't like backpacker hostels anymore with young people partying, but more than that I really can't stand weed smokers. And here (as in all latin-america) everyone smokes! I needed to escape our room to avoid people from our hostel, which made me really feel lonely when everyone else where laughing for stupid jokes, which weren't that funny unless you were high. Three very ill slept nights and walking all day longs isn't a very good combination.
