070101 - From Santiago to Pucon

Getting up the next morning wasn't easy, but I thought to fight the little hang-over I had managed to get with a little run in the park. Therefore I lifted myself up at 10am and kept on going for 2hours. Felt nice afterwards, but still (or now even more) tired. The rest of the day I was just hanging around in the hostel as Eva and I had a bus to Pucon late in the evening.

We left Santiago around 11:45pm and arrived in Pucon almost 8hours later. As we chose the cheapest bus there I felt like being run-over by a truck again. And my knees, which had been bothering me since the climbing accident, felt terribly. No chance for any activity but walking around town a bit that day.

Pucon is situated in the so called Lake District (comprized by 12 lakes of different sizes as well as waterfalls and snow-capped volcanoes) on the southeast corner of Lago Villarrica. Between New Year to end-February the town is overly crowded and expensive. We found a nice hostel (Backpackers Hostel) with the local guide Claudio.