San Martin and the seven lakes route.... and snow! After catching the bus through the rain from Villa, we were met with a soggy San Martin de los Andes. We had hoped to do some walks in the mountains here, but it didn´t look promising (bitingly cold rain is not the best walking weather). Waiting it out overnight did not result in any improvement.... we woke up to snow! And it turned San Martin into a wonderland! We spent most of our first day waiting it out in...

24km of fresh air and fantastic views! The views on the pass from Chile to Argentina promised great things and boy did they deliver. We fell rapidly in love with Argentina very soon after the bus dropped us off in Villa La Angostura. The Argentinian lakes district is incredibly beautiful and we were lucky enough to see it in both glorious sunshine and wintery snow! The glorious sunshine was had in Villa La Angostura. We spent the day walking along a peninsula i...

Casa de Yoga! Yes, Tim has done his first yoga class! But more on that later. First a quick update on how we got here... We travelled from Valdivia through Puerto Montt, a large town in the Chilean Lakes District that the guidebooks literally describe as the perfect place to find transport for the next place you´re going to! Its basically a port town with links to Patagonia and up to the North of Chile. But we had a fantastic lunch here at a local cafe. The Ch...

The world´s biggest cake! It was 59m long and is officially the largest cake ever baked according to the Guiness Book of World Records. Today we visited the bakery that made it. Lucky for us they ate the cake after they baked it, otherwise it´d taste pretty mouldy by now! Also luckily for us there were numerous scrumptious treats for us to try.... caramel biscuits, lemon merangue pie, oat cookies with chocolate chips, honey cookies, fruit pie.... mmmm. Perfect...

Ice axes are fun.... Today we climbed the Villarrica Volcano (with Aguaventura - the best in Pucon). It was tough going and took about 4 hours to reach the top. (And all of about 30 minutes to get down again, but more about that later). The day was perfect with plenty of sunshine and just a sprinkling of cloud. I´ve never been that hot in the snow before! We started the climb at about 9am and decided that since the sun was out we´d skip the first section and ...