Osorno!!

Please ignore my font mishaps from the previous post.....I screwed it up and have no idea how to change it.

Instead of spending time trying to figure that out, I am going to post about our day yesterday instead because it was AMAZING! We arrived in Puerto Vares on Wednesday morning after a quick flight from Santiago. We spent the day wandering the town (its small) and went on over to a neighboring town, Fruitellar. The whole general area we are in is the Lake District of Chile, and everything about it is gorgeous. The view from the town includes two volcanoes, Osorno and Calbuco. Wednesday was a little overcast so the views weren't fantastic, but I was fine with that because the weather yesterday was unbelievable. 

We left our hotel around 9 and drove around Lake Llanquihue and stopped a little ways up Osorno. It was chilly to start but in about 15 minutes we had all ditched our top two layers. It was a steep 30 minute climb up...but immediately we were rewarded with amazing views. The clouds were off the top of Osorno and it's intact cone was visible during the whole hike. 

We took some time to take pictures and rehydrate
at the first rest point.  If everyone stopped talking it was dead silent...no birds, no animals.  And the sky was so clear....we were able to see many other neighboring volcanoes during the hike.

We continued hiking about an hour more until the we arrived where we stopped for lunch, overlooking a lake. The pictures from lunch weren't amazing....it was pretty hazy. But by the time we packed up and left it had cleared up a decent amount.....

We hiked down about 2 hours or so where our car was waiting to pick us up and headed over to the Petrohue waterfalls, a popular stopping point for many tourists. We had a quick look and then headed back towards Puerto Vares for a hot shower, dinner, and many drinks :)

Its time now to go board the Navimag :) More later....probably in about a week. Next up: cruising the Chilean Fjords and hiking the W trek of Torres del Paine!!!