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Hello from Pucon....................we have been here for three days and are heading north again tonight. Pucon is a beautiful town on the edge of a lake overlooked by an active volcano. In the 1993 lonely planet it advises people not to stay in Pucon as it is too dangerous and although it smokes on a regular basis it has been a while since it errupted. Even saying this though there are warning lights all over town and posters indicating what the different warning lights mean.
All though there is obviously a large possibility that the volcano will errupt hundreds of tour agencys offer hikes up it to tourists so you can peer down into the smoke and look at the bubbling lava below, and of course we decided to join the tourists............ It was one hell of a climb straight upwards and unfortunatley when we were over two thirds of the way up the climb had to be cancelled due to the ice. Even though we had crampons on if you had slipped you would have fallen all the way to the bottom.
The next day, being my birthday incase you`d forgotten, we woke up and had a beautiful breakfast and then had a walk around town streching our aching legs from the hike yesterday. It is very cold here so we spent most of the day grabing hot cups of coffee and eating nice hot meals. In the evening we cautht a bus out to some hot spring and spent 3 hours sitting outside in these beautiful natural hotsprings drinking beer until gone midnight. Unfortunatley the town has almost shut down for winter so we headed off to bed and will have to save the partying for later.
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