Porto Montt and Frutillar, Chile

Our port today was Porto Montt. We’ve been here before and already visited the famous Osamo volcano and Porto Varas on Lake Llaquihue so we teamed up with our friends Geraldine and Thomas who’d also been here before. We hired a taxi to take us to the lake area about a half hour away to visit Frutillar, a small town also on Lake Llaquihue.

This area was settled by Germans in the 1850s and the towns are slices of Germany in Chile. It’s a lush agricultural area known for dairy farming. With the lake and volcanoes as a setting, it was so picturesque. We loved it.

We then headed to a quirky gallery/museum in Porto Varas that Thomas and Geraldine had visited in 2020. It’s the passion project of Chilean artist Pablo Fiero. He began converting this old lakeside property into its current eclectic form in 2002. He was there to host us!Read more