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Could be an Andean or an Austral Negrito

I thought there would be adventure, I thought there would be danger, I thought it was maybe a little bit like Skull Island (King Kong), but it turn out to be a roundabout on the outskirts of Puerto Natales!

This is highly useful and you can shoe horn it into any conversation or just shout it randomly…… Just say the initials SOCKS as fast as you can and if you have a natural flair for languages it might sound like ‘es o si que es’, which means ‘it is what it is’.

They say there’s no need to go to Puerto Montt because there’s nothing to see. It’s a working town with little for the tourist but we went with very low expectations and were pleasantly surprised. This was mostly because the sun came out which was unexpected. We needed to be here because of the very

We had a spare day in Puerto Varas and we used it to visit a place up the coast of the lake called Frutillar. This translates to strawberry tree and was named because of the wild strawberries found in the area. Having spent an afternoon there, we didn’t see a single strawberry let alone the

The capital of Chiloe is a town called Castro, a place we had planned to stay for a few days but what with the wind and rain we decided on a day trip from Ancud. The guide books had originally sold this place as a ‘must see’ destination however we had started to read between

So far we have avoided getting wet (rain I mean, not swimming). This came to an abrupt halt when we got the bus the Chiloe. The rain came down heavy and the wind howled. The bus rolled onto the ferry with visibility so bad we hardly noticed we were on the water. 20 minutes later

We had booked a hotel in Puelo which was 6km from the hot baths. It was more difficult to find than expected. This was mainly due to the fact that the idea that it was 6km from the baths was the only information we had. With no WiFi and no signal we had to use

From the cabin in the woods (in Ensenada), we drove 80km to new accommodation in Puelo. What no one thought to mention was that 30km of this twisty mountain road was unmade. Still, we plodded on in Chrysler. The reason to get to Puelo was that we had an afternoon booked at the Termas del