Valparaiso 19.04.-22.04.11 I was a bit upset and confused when I arrived in VALPARAISO. First of all as it didn't work out to stay with anyone in Santiago and secondly as Hector kindly offered me his nice flat for Easter and the staff from the Ecohostel invited me for a BBQ on Thursday! But as it was too expensive to travel back and as I wanted to continue my travels I decided to spend my EASTER 2011 in MENDOZA in Argentina. In Valparaiso I took the l...

Santiago 15.04.-19.04.11 When I arrived at the bus station in CHILLAN I was very lucky as there was a bus straight away to SANTIAGO at 5 pm! The bus ride took six hours and I arrived at 11pm at the huge bus terminal in SANTIAGO. Luckily I had a mobile, phoned the ECOHOSTEL from the bus terminal and finally checked in at 11.30pm. I had two invitations to stay in Santiago, one with Catharina a Couchsurfer in "Barrio Brasil" and the other from my...

Chillan-Valle Las Trancas 13.04.-15.04.11 It was just after 3pm when I arrived in CHILLAN. Chillan is a town of 180.000 inhabitants and there is really nothing spectacular to see apart from the ESUELA MEXICO, which was donated after the earthquake 1939 by the Mexican government and the Mercado Central. So after I have checked into the "Hostel Canada" I made my way to these two interesting sights. The next morning I took the local bus to VALLE ...

07.04.-13.04.11 Pucon On Thursday, 07.04.11 at around 4pm I arrived in PUCON. I left Osorno with a cold I felt quite weak when I checked into the Hostel "EL REFUGIO". PUCON lies on the foot of the massive VOLCANO VILLARRICA (2.847m) and the beautiful and big lake LAGO VILLARICA. Pucon offers a bit for every tourist…..hiking the volcano, rafting, horse-riding, thermal springs or just enjoying the beach. First of all I walked to the Hospedaje whe...

03.04.-06.04.11 Puerto Varas / Saltos del Petrohue Julian, Perrin (from Montpellier in France) and me arrived at 10pm in PUERTO VARAS where we checked into the HOSTEL MAWENKA. The next morning when we got up it was raining. So we had a long breakfast and did some emailing. After lunch we took the bus to PETROHUE where we intended to walk around the LAGO TODOS LOS SANTOS and hike for a few hours inbetween the VOLCANOES OSORNO and PUNTIAGUDO. Even though t...