A journey of over 12 hours…sailing on 3 lakes and riding 3 buses. Woo hoo!

This area has 283 days of rain annually, so very lucky gal to be seeing sunshine and clear views all day!

Firstly stopping off early in the morning to see Petrohue falls, with the beautiful Osorno volcano dominating the background. 

The Calbuco volcano that erupted last year created lots of local damage, including the walkway to the falls. Lucky me, repairs were completed last week allowing us to visit. 

Then, sailing on Lago Todos Los Santos surrounded by volcanos (Osorno, Puntiagudo) and other national park mountains. Very beautiful. 

At Peulla, 4 brave women (2 from Argentina, one from Costa Rica and I) decided to sign up for a helicopter ride over the Andean mountains crossing over the border between Chile and Argentina. What an amazing view! My favourite snaps are of Puntiagudo in the distance and a glacier with a waterfall of ice spilling down a craggy mountainside.  

We went through Chilean Immigration and briefly farewelled pisco sours!

To transfer to Lago Frias, a bus ride past the Tronador volcano. Awesome. 

Lago Frias was pleasant and gave us our last view of Tronador. 

After going through Argentinian Immigration, we were off by bus to the last lake for the day, Lago Nahuel Huapi. Huge and surrounded by craggy peaks, but not as speccy. But a lovely ‘ceremony’, with the captain blowing the boat’s horn to honour Perito Moreno, who discovered the lake and is buried on an island in it.  A last bus ride to our hotel!  Exhausted and exhilarated all at the same time.