Pucon and the Volcano

Pucon's a nice little traveller friendly town in the Chillean Lakes District. Apparently it gets unbearably busy here in peak season, but lucky for us we arrived in the off season, found a nice little campsite close to town (with WIFI!!) and ended up staying for a little while.

Most activities in Pucon revolve around the volcano, so the first thing we did was to climb it. We were lucky to get good weather and made it all the way to the top. The views were pretty amazing and it was great to look down into the crater.

The day after, the climbing company had thrown in free tickets to some thermal baths nearby so we took a drive out through some beautiful countryside to go and revive our aching bodies.

We decided to ski while we were here as it was the last week the chair lifts were operating for the season and worked out pretty cheap (approx $100AUD for ski and snowboard rental and lift passes for the day). I was feeling pretty rusty not having skied in a couple of years, but Mai was killing it snowboarding like a pro.

While we treated ourselves to a couple of meals at restaurants, I think the meals we were cooking up on the camp stove and BBQ were even better. All in all a good stop on our journey.