Region de Los Lagos Vacations, Region de Los Lagos Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

So I arrived in Puerto Montt on Monday afternoon, pretty much an entire week before my ferry was set to leave for Puerto Natales. This was rather unfortunate because there is absolutely nothing to do in Puerto Montt. About the most exciting thing to do is go to the two big shopping malls, the newer of which is quite nice, complete with a cinema, food court, and very modern stores. Other than that, there isn´t much in the sprawling disordered city. I decided to escape to the island of Chiloé…

  After arriving in Puerto Varas, I scoped out the two recommended hostels - Compass del Sur and Casa Azul.  I did a walk by, and decided on Casa Azul.  It looked (and is) very homey.  It´s literally a house that I share with the owners, and a handful of other guests.  We share the kitchen, living space, etc.  I have a small single bedroom.   I spent the afternoon exploring the very small, German-influenced town.  But it was pretty dark and wet, giv…

Despite arriving at 8pm in Puerto Varas, we had a really nice New Year´s Eve.  Despite on arrive being told "There is a BBQ tonight......" (HURRAY!!!) ".......But you had to have purchased food and the shops are now all shut" (BOO!!!!) we managed to find somewhere tha didn´t look as suitable as some of the resturants that were all booked-up already.  However, despite looking like a bit of a high-street UK bar, it delievered at fantastic 4 course dinner with all drinks included (al…

Not much to say here.  I spent all of 6 hours here and a good portion of that uploading photos. We were dumped out on this trashy looking port city at 8am.  We walked around looking at nothing until the internet opened up at 9:30am.  I do credit Puerto Montt for having the fastest internet in all of South America.  I did  have a quick reunion with my Dutch roommate from Bariloche who ended her volunteer work and headed here to take the Navimag back the opp…