I forgot to mention another interesting point about Argentina - they use the same plugs as us!
We had an early pick up - the bus was late - to be driven to the port for the start of our trip into Chile. Our bags we loaded onto the boat and that’s the last we saw of them for a while! We were on a small catarmaran (about 70 people) and we headed into a narrow waterway surrounded by mountains. The scenery was spectacular but it was very windy and wet if you stepped outside. The trip lasted about one and a half hours. We then disembarked and had to wait for an hour before catching a bus.
We were definitely in an isolated area of the nation park surrounded by mountains and water. A walk ended with us basically dashing for the only building, a cafe, as not only was it hot but we were being 'attacked’ by what I call 'horseflies’ - nasty brutes! The bus eventually took us through the rainforest to another tiny jetty where we boarded another small boat. The 40 minute trip was through snow topped mountains and icy waters fed by a glacier.
When we alighted from the boat we had to go to passport control as we were leaving Argentina. Passport stamped but still no sign of our bags although we were assured that they would be in Chile! On to another bus with a 29km drive on dirt roads though the Andes to the Chilean border! This set Valda and I to thinking about all the strange border crossings we’ve had in our travels and this may have been the longest between immigration posts! We did pause on the way to photograph the glacier.
We finally came to an old building and lined up for our passport to be stamped and hey we were in Chile! We then had to identify our bags, yes they were there, open them for a a cursory search and then we walked to our hotel. This is the only hotel in the area and is lovely - lots of wood, big fireplace and overlooking the mountains. There are a few cattle grazing but there is little else. It appears that there are only 120 people here and we met four of them at passport control!
A pleasant lunch led us to wander outside but not for long because the nasty flies, Valda is calling them killer bees, surrounded us in hoards and we looked complete idiots with our arms thrashing from side to side to stop them landing on us! Luckily we have a great room overlooking the mountains so enjoyed a couple of G & T’s whilst looking at the view. As the sun went down it got cooler and it was so great to be listening to the croaking of frogs rather than sounds of our modern world.
Early afternoon we taken to the next boat for our trip through the Chilean Lake District. The trip on the boat was awesome with spectacular scenery. We had great views of three volcano’s - all supposedly dormant! One looks like Mount Fuji! After docking we caught a bus which finally reached our destination of Puerto Varas.
We are on the lake with mountains and the volcanoes in the background. The sun is shining and the sky blue although there is a wind coming across the lake and it can be cool. The locals are swimming around in he water where the temperature is between 17C -20C!
Last night the sunset and moon cast red shadows over the snow topped volcano - it was beautiful.
hotel
View from room
We had an early pick up - the bus was late - to be driven to the port for the start of our trip into Chile. Our bags we loaded onto the boat and that’s the last we saw of them for a while! We were on a small catarmaran (about 70 people) and we headed into a narrow waterway surrounded by mountains. The scenery was spectacular but it was very windy and wet if you stepped outside. The trip lasted about one and a half hours. We then disembarked and had to wait for an hour before catching a bus.
We were definitely in an isolated area of the nation park surrounded by mountains and water. A walk ended with us basically dashing for the only building, a cafe, as not only was it hot but we were being 'attacked’ by what I call 'horseflies’ - nasty brutes! The bus eventually took us through the rainforest to another tiny jetty where we boarded another small boat. The 40 minute trip was through snow topped mountains and icy waters fed by a glacier.
When we alighted from the boat we had to go to passport control as we were leaving Argentina. Passport stamped but still no sign of our bags although we were assured that they would be in Chile! On to another bus with a 29km drive on dirt roads though the Andes to the Chilean border! This set Valda and I to thinking about all the strange border crossings we’ve had in our travels and this may have been the longest between immigration posts! We did pause on the way to photograph the glacier.
We finally came to an old building and lined up for our passport to be stamped and hey we were in Chile! We then had to identify our bags, yes they were there, open them for a a cursory search and then we walked to our hotel. This is the only hotel in the area and is lovely - lots of wood, big fireplace and overlooking the mountains. There are a few cattle grazing but there is little else. It appears that there are only 120 people here and we met four of them at passport control!
A pleasant lunch led us to wander outside but not for long because the nasty flies, Valda is calling them killer bees, surrounded us in hoards and we looked complete idiots with our arms thrashing from side to side to stop them landing on us! Luckily we have a great room overlooking the mountains so enjoyed a couple of G & T’s whilst looking at the view. As the sun went down it got cooler and it was so great to be listening to the croaking of frogs rather than sounds of our modern world.
Early afternoon we taken to the next boat for our trip through the Chilean Lake District. The trip on the boat was awesome with spectacular scenery. We had great views of three volcano’s - all supposedly dormant! One looks like Mount Fuji! After docking we caught a bus which finally reached our destination of Puerto Varas.
We are on the lake with mountains and the volcanoes in the background. The sun is shining and the sky blue although there is a wind coming across the lake and it can be cool. The locals are swimming around in he water where the temperature is between 17C -20C!
Last night the sunset and moon cast red shadows over the snow topped volcano - it was beautiful.
hotelView from room
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