From Puyehue NP to Bariloche

After admiring the wonderful waterfalls at Petrohue, we headed to Puyehue National Park, whose abundant vegetation is another example of a temperate rainforest. We spent December 9th hiking in the national park, where we also spent the night in a well-maintained camping site. The dense forest and waterfalls of Puyehue NP are charming and off the beaten track. Spending the night in a rainforest is a unique experience, during the night you can hear a lot of noises made by monkeys, birds or insects, and looking at the starry sky through the porthole in the camper's ceiling deepens the mystery of the jungle even more. The next day we crossed the Chile-Argentina border heading to Bariloche.

Planning our travel itinerary requires analytical work and patience. A problem I frequently encounter is that although the internet provides us with an avalanche of information with every “search” I do, much of this information is either completely useless or advertisements for tour operators... No wonder, in the age of tik-tok, little information is of good quality, especially well-made maps. People are encouraged to take guided tours, not to think of their own personalized routes. Even “Lonely Planet”, a book aimed at solo travelers, with which we undertook our first backpacking trips in South Asia twenty years ago, abounds with information from various tour operators (and even "woke-concepts”!), but there are few accurate maps.

The travel route from Puerto Montt to Bariloche can be seen here: https://de.mapy.cz/zakladni?planovani-trasy&amp…Read more