Pucon Stories


Arrival in Santiago, down to Pucon

After leaving Auckland at 8pm on 18 October we arrived in Santiago 10.5 hours later at 2.30pm that same day! So we actually went back in time and had Saturday twice! I have never crossed an international date line before and we both ended up with pretty bad jet lag. So tired during the day but then couldn´t sleep until about 4am, it took us about 4 d...


Completo

So, this is how the simplest of plans can go hideously wrong. The plan was this: eat a tasty hot dog. So, at the bus station, we order hot dogs. So far, so good. A substantial looking 8 inch white roll, has a regular hot dog sausage added to it. Again, no problem here. And then the serving lady moves over to the toppings, and proceeds to insert w...


Amy and clair do rapids

We decided we were not sore enough after volcano trek and horse riding that we would do some more adventures. George and Clair chose white water rafting so scared little Amy was forced to agree. Nico hooked us up with his mate Phillipe who is our newest adopted little brother. So in tassie like weather we headed for the river and stripped down to wet bi...


sore bum

morning after volcano hell, scraped ourselves out of bed to ride in a horse. George from team austraia also joined up for adventure number 2. George got the slow horse, clair got the psycho horse and Amy got the good one. marko (we think) our guide only spoke spanish was a champ. Straight out onto the road dodgin cars then off the track into the hills ...