We arrived in Pucon (Chile) on the night bus from Santiago and the first thing that emerged to us was the giant steaming Volcan Villarrica!!! This meant only one thing.....Summit Time... The peak rises to over 2800 metes and steams most of the time.
We were waiting for our friend Johannes to arrive so we could do some trekking, what transpired was that late October is too early to trek around Pucon and you really need to be here in December, oh dear!
However the Huerquehue national park was half open so we headed out confident we would be fine....
The first hour of the walk saw us walking along a beautiful lake with forest lining it.
The walk starts around 400 - 500 meters and winds its way up through several look outs around 1000 meters and then up to the snow line!
We really didn't expect to find that much snow but in places it was still up to 1 meter deep..
At the top of the pass there were three large lakes, some covered with ice still and others crystal clear and reflecting the images of the mountains perfectly.
The national park also helped us realise we're definitely happy with the new camera!!!
Due to the worsened weather (clouds now covering the volcano) we are going to head south again tomorrow and then on Friday join our ferry cruise through the fjords to our most southern point in Patagonia.
Needless to say we didn't climb the volcano, maybe on the way back up :-)
Also we wonder if this volcano explosion will hinder our views too? We are going to pass it on the Navimag Ferry!
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