Chile

We arrived in Puerto Varas after a 6 hour bus ride, Jess and I have been named the Swedish blondes...it`s great. We put our bags in a taxi from the bus station while everyone else walked!...GAP paid of course!
We went out for dinner and then back to our dive of a hostel. It was like having a shower under a waterfall, cold and very cave like, it was dark in there!...I was shivering so much. Yesterday we went on a trip to the island of Chiloe, a bit further south in Chile. We went to a gorgeous beach place with noone around and went out on a boat to see penguins, they were so cute waddling around and falling into the water. It`s been pretty cold here, but the sun was shining. It was so cool to see penguins and otters in their natural habitat. We had freshly caught fish for lunch, seabass and hake...it was lovely. Considering that the penguins were a 3 hour drive away on a different island Puerto Varas is the disappointment of my trip so far. It has a beautiful lake and a volcano to the back of it, a great view. But little else to do and the worst accommodation so far. The best thing about the accommodation was the big feather duvets!
We then took another 7 hour bus journey and arrived in Pucon. The sun was shining and it was rather warm carrying our bags up the street. We got to the hostel, and it`s really cute. It has a real homely feel to it, and big feather duvets again! We went to book excursions last night and I got wound up with the whole group thing again, it took so long! I didn`t end up getting my dinner until 10:45pm...wasn`t impressed. Not feeling great at the moment, had a sore throat and feeling a little runned down...must be all the hard work I`m doing!! Booked on to go up the active volcano tomorrow, they give you all the snow shoes and stuff, so it will be challenging, but evry exciting! Supposed to be going rafting this afternoon, but I really can`t make up my mind if I want to do it. It`s pretty cold here today, my hands are like ice typing at the moment. Not sure getting cold and wet is going to do much for my sore throat. Anyway, I`ll go now and make up my mind....laters