070106 - "There's bugs everywhere! I cannot enjoy the hike at all this way!!!"

Puerto Varas, CHL - Next stop on our route was Puerto Montt. But luckily, in Pucon, they recommended us to go to Puerto Varas (which is only 25km away) instead.

Puerto Montt is the mayor port in the south of Chile where the cargo boats go to Puerto Arenas in the far, far south. It is not really a -- how to say -- good-looking city, which we got to see for ourselves one afternoon.

Puerto Varas, on the other hand, is a small town on the edge of Lago Llanquihue from where you can see Volcan Osorno rising to the sky on the other end of the lake.

The second day we spend in Puerto Varas we decided to take a bus to the falls of Rio Petrohué and walk from there the remaining 6km to Lago Todos Los Santos. Well, as it is not only high season of vacation it is also season for some special bugs that are said to exist only between the end of December to the 20th of January. They are a real pain in the a**. Constantly zooming around one; gradually becoming more and more to the point where one just cannot take it anymore.

After we left from the falls (where the bugs were already bothering us) and walked about 350meters our "boiling point" was reached. We stopped a car that gave us a lift to the lake; strolled around there for a bit.

Instead of the proclaimed hike we intended to do we decided for "Plan B": visiting Puerto Montt.