We all got up early and drove to another nearby German settlement. We left Daniel in Puerto Varas (not intentionally, he'd had enough of us) he was 30 and a man of few words. One of these guys who answers every question in a monosylabic yes or no. He was exceptionally skinny and didn't eat very much. Yeah glad to be rid of him, he wasn't contributing to the tour; his banter was non-existent. We then drove for hours in our dodgy tour bus which finally broke ...

Hi! So today we all had a lie-in until 9ish, had breakfast and hopped on our bus to Puerto Montt. This is a large city in the south that has amazing views of 2 volcanoes and also the country's biggest fish market. We arrived and to be honest, my first impression of the city was run-down, industrial and pretty ugly. The Chilean equivalent of Greenock. The city's economy is based on fishing so there are tonnes of seafood restaurants down by the docks. There w...

We got up early again! I need a lie-in!! We drove to the nearby Pangupulli Lake and walked along the lake shoreline. We then drove further south until we reached the historic city of Valdivia. We wandered into the busy, fish market and looked at the amazing range of fish and shellfish available. There were huge sealions eating all the fish guts that the fishmongers were throwing out. Therewere also Mapuche earrings and necklaces for sale. We checked into our...

Everyone got up at 6am and we all got changed into our gear at the adventure centre. We were then driven up to the base of the mountain. There were two Israeli/ Americans, Tal and Adam who joined our group. We chatted to them on the way up and they were a good laugh. We then hopped on a chairlift which took us further up the mountain. There were no safety bars on the chairlift and Nick was freaking out beside me. Once we reached the starting point, our Fre...

This morning I had a freezing cold shower!! We had breakfast and then hopped on the bus to Santa Cruz! It's a cool little town with a huge museum that was built by an obscure millionaire. This turned out to be the most wanted man in Chile (by the U.S. anyway) for dealing arms. He isn't allowed out of Chile or the Americans will get him. He has a fasconatong collection of Inca, Mapuche (Indigenous Indians of Chile) and guns! The museum had loads of guns, Nazi unif...