Author: neil
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Puerto Montt, CL to Contao, CL
It was hot. Already by the time we had loaded up and left our little holiday house, shorts and a t-shirt were all I needed. We had extended our original 14-day booking to 16 days, mostly because that’s when there was space on an upcoming ferry (though partly because a couple more days of stationary…
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Ensenada, CL to Puerto Montt, CL
With our AirBNB’s driveway connecting to the highway, we just continued straight along the route we’d been on yesterday evening, back into the left-side bike lanes that inexplicably* continue for 25 more miles along the south shore of Lake Llanquihue to Puerto Varas (*my guess is that it again has something to do with the…
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Peulla, CL to Ensenada, CL
In Peru, we frequently said “if this was in the US, it would be a National Park!”, for places that didn’t even have names. Chile, by contrast, has been much more active in designating National Parks, but there still seems to be little-to-no tourist infrastructure built into them. So although it’s surrounded by Vicente Pérez…
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Llao Llao, AR to Peulla, CL
Today we were crossing back into Chile by a very unique route, one essentially developed by a company called Cruce Andino, and they’re the sole operator that will ferry you across three different remote mountain lakes (connected by two essentially “private” gravel road segments) before reconnecting with the road network in Chile. Even better, this…
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Dina Huapi, AR to Llao Llao, AR
As we were heading out, our friendly and curious host (technically the father of the person running the AirBNB listing) stopped by to see us off. He even gave us (well, me) some bananas for the road! As always, we wish we spoke better Spanish so that we could properly communicate, but it’s also satisfying…