We took off in our rental car today to circumnavigate Chile's second largest lake. Lake Llanquihue. First stop was Fruitillar Bajo, a town with a very Bavarian influence, those Germans used to get around! We came across their replica towns in Namibia as well, here is another one in Chile. We stopped here for kuchen and coffee - and it was delicious!
Next stop was Las Casadas, after driving a very bumpy road for a few kilometres, then walking for about half an hour over precarious fallen log bridges, we reached a superb waterfall with a sheer drop of at least 50m pounding straight into a small pool - definitely worth it though we had no idea what to expect.
We then continued around the lake, with Volcan Osorno as our back drop, stopping at little villages along the way until we reached the volcano itself. It's known as Chile's Mt Fuji as it looks incredibly similar, it has the same symmetrical shape with snow topped peak.
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| Locals and Volcan Osorno |
On our way up in the chairlift we were discussed how blissfully quiet it was until we could hear someone talking loudly coming towards us in a chairlift. The voice sounded familiar, and when we realised who it was we were amazed. About 11 days earlier when we crossed into Chile there was a young Swiss girl on our bus who didn't draw breath for the entire 8 hours bus ride, we felt sorry for her travelling companion at the time, but here they both were, and motormouth was still going!
After finishing our Osorno visit we didn't have much time to get the rental car back, so we drove at top speed back to Puerto Varas., overtaking the numerous Sunday drivers at every opportunity. Also along the road there were lots of local families picking berries, we think they were blackberries because we had seen them around, though we could be wrong.
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