My adventures in South America

January - April 2020
I am gonna take you with me on my adventures. Unfortunately you gonna join me halfway through my journey, as I didn´t know about this application before.
Have fun and see what beautiful South America has to offer!
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  • Day 28

    Motorbikes and beers in Chile Chico

    February 12, 2020 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    It’s time to do some Couchsurfing again. I am staying with Cristian who has got his own “Parcella” just 2km out of Chile Chico right at the beautiful lake “general carrera” which is the second biggest lake in South America and is divided into two. The other half is in Argentina and there they call the lake “Buenos Aires”.

    Cristian is a really good company too and he has got a motorbike so when he comes back from work he takes me out to places with amazing views and beautiful beaches in the area. We had a super fun time together and also he has got a horse that I was allowed to ride 😋 and every night we were sharing beers. There is a really good one, a little bit sweeter called Maqui. That’s my new favourite one next to the Calafate beer. ✌🏼
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  • Day 30

    Party in Guadal

    February 14, 2020 in Chile ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

    Yaaay, finally Mona has arrived in Chile Chico. We met in Pucon and we said we wanted to hitchhike the Carretera Austral (Ruta 7) together.
    We wanted to start in Chile Chico, but the Carretera Austral is gonna Start a bit more west.

    Cristian from Couchsurfing told me that there was a festival in Puerto Guadal which was on our route. So we started hitchhiking there, which we successfully did. The nature and the scenery on the way was magnificent. We passed beautiful turquoise Lagoons and drove right next to the lake General Carrera all the time. And with all the Mountains in the background it all looked magical!

    We finally made it to Guadal and put our tent up next to the lake. We decided to do some free camping. I love camping!! 🏕

    The festival started as soon as it got dark and the local people danced the “chamame” which is the traditional dance here. I got taught it too and it’s super fun but also very exhausting as you’re doing little jumps all the time. 💃🏽😂
    Afterwards there was another band of three woman that dressed like ABBA with a cowboy hat. They were AMAZING! We laughed so much and had so many beer and at 6am in the morning we finally returned to our tent to get some rest 😂
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  • Day 34

    Exploring the area around Guadal

    February 18, 2020 in Chile ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

    On the festival we met a gay guy called Ricardo and he invited us to stay in his house for a few days. To use his hot shower and warm bed. We felt really blessed! He and his friend Beatrice were treating us so well!!

    He showed us the area, we went to beautiful waterfalls, tried to see some marble caves, which was harder to get there than expected (😂), he showed us his workplace, which is a beautiful lodge directly located at the lakefront and he and his workmates drove us to the national park Patagonia. The scenery was stunning and we felt like we were in the film the hobbit. Also, in this one part there were around 100 guanacos in one place. Guanacos belong to the family of llamas 🦙🦙 sassy animals they are 😂 but they look so funny while chewing, I love them!
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  • Day 36

    Visiting the Marble Caves

    February 20, 2020 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    We finally made it to the Carretera Austral and made a stop over in Puerto Río Tranquilo, where we planned on visiting the Marble Caves. And wooow, it has definitely been worth the 10 Euros!! It has been truly unique as I have never seen something like this before. The water was abnormally light blue and clear. You could see to the ground, although it was so deep the water. I was fascinated by the stones and how they reflected beautifully in the water and everything was glittering in sunshine ✨ it’s been a truly magical tour!!
    Now we gonna go on hitchhiking to Cerro Castillo, hope we will make it, there is some concurrence standing already in the streets. 🤞🏼
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  • Day 37

    Cerro Castillo

    February 21, 2020 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    Whoop, we easily made it to Cerro Castillo with some tax collectors 😂 we never have to wait more than half an hour to get picked! Lucky us, travelling as two girls!

    We were planning on going into the national park to do some hiking but you have to pay more than 20 Euros to enter for one day. So we decided to just do some walking around the area and enjoy the sunny days. ☀️ still, Cerro Castillo is beautiful. A tiny village but with amazing views of the mountains and apparently perfect for climbing.
    The sunsets were super pretty but the night skies were magnificent!!! You can see the Milky Way perfectly, it is really worth to get up at night at some point! 🌌
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  • Day 39

    Little stop over and spending moneeyyy

    February 23, 2020 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    So we hitchhiked to coyhaique. But we didn’t have anything planned to do there, so we thought we might go into town and have a look around. And when you do that, you usually spend the most money 😂 so I ended up buying a thermos, a new jacket (as I have always got freezing cold at night in our tent) and some more little stuff. But the best thing we did, was to go into that Cafe of a German owner, called Holzer. That was the most delicious cake I had in ages! I’m still thinking of this cake 💭
    And Mona made a new friend, called Lucie the cat, on our camping side. 🏕
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  • Day 40

    New and good acquaintances

    February 24, 2020 in Chile ⋅ 🌧 11 °C

    Oh, I am such a fan of hitchhiking. Especially here in the South you get to meet so many lovely people that are interested in you and want to hear a lot about your country. Today we met Javier. He was the first car that passed us, so we were literally waiting less than a minute.
    He wanted to take us to Puyuhuapi, but first he wanted to visit a friend shortly. Arriving at his friends house he told us to get out of the car too. We got warmly welcomed by a family that lives in the middle of nowhere on a farm and got invited to “Almuerzo” what is like lunch. They had an Asado the night before, so we ate the left overs, which were A LOT and the mum made some fresh salad and we had some beer. They were such a lovely bunch of people. After lunch Mona and I were allowed to ride their horses, ahhh it was so much fun, we felt a bit like Bibi and Tina haha.
    Also they had chicken and a lot of dogs and four puppies 🐶
    After three hours we left their place and got back on the road. After a while it started raining, so Ja Ieper offered us to sleep in his house, so we don’t have to sleep in the tent while it was raining. Furthermore, we changed our plan to go to puyuhapi and went to Puerto Cisnes, which is a little harbour town, and we saw a lovely sunset. 😊

    There are so many awesome people out there!
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  • Day 42

    Hitchhiked 407km and white water rafting

    February 26, 2020 in Chile ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    So the landscape we’ve been surrounded by the last days was always kind of hillish with mountain ranges and short grass. Now we got into vegetation!! We sat 2 hours in the back of a pick up, while driving the worst road you can imagine. To our right and left there are high mountains covered in green trying to reach the clouds that are mystically wrapped around their tops.
    It was fun, even though it was super cold after a while. But it definitely was an adventure!
    In La Junta we had breakfast and then we went on to villa Santa Lucia to hitchhike to Futaleufú.

    Futaleufú reminded me a bit of Pucón. It is very touristy but not too touristy, so that there is still a nice atmosphere. We decided on doing a full tour rafting tour, because apparently Futaleufú is one of the best places in South America to do white water rafting. And it truly is! I can confirm now! We had so much fun and also our group in our boat and the guide was perfect! We had so much fun going through the rapids and the water splashing on all sides! We were even allowed to go swimming and one rapid we were allowed to swim as there are no stones. Also we jumped off a 4m altitude cliff! It was so so so much fun!! One of the best days!
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  • Day 44

    Hello Chaitén

    February 28, 2020 in Chile ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    This morning we hitchhiked to Chaitén. We were quite unlucky at first until two men that work for a salmon company picked us. In Chaitén there is the volcano Chaitén, that erupted in 2008, so all the houses are pretty new in the little town.
    The next morning we planned on hiking to this volcano. We still needed to hitchhike for half an hour and got lucky, because tommy was there and said he would drive us. He immediately started speaking german with us, as he lived there for 4 years with his girlfriend Lotta. Before he drove us to the volcano he showed us a place where we could see dolphins and then we went to a beautiful beach called Santa Barbara where he currently is building a new house. He asked us if we wanted to work for him, as they have a small tourism business and also a food truck Café. Mona and I didn’t think that long about it and just said yes. So he gave us Lotta’s number and said we should just show up when we finished our hike.✌🏼😂

    The hike itself was super cool but also very steep. It was cloudy firstly but then the clouds disappeared and we had a perfect view! You were even able to look over the sea to Chiloe, incredible!

    After our hike we showed up in the food truck, such a cool place! Really looking forward to start working there for one week. Tomorrow is gonna be our first day.
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  • Day 45

    Saturday nights

    February 29, 2020 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    Today was our first day in the food truck. There’s such a cool vibe and all the time good music. I felt super comfortable from the beginning on and I realised that I missed a little bit to be actually working. Just to get a bit into a daily schedule.
    We closed the cafe at 1pm today as the weather was so great and we went to a little local festival for a while with good food and juices. Afterwards we went to the beach of Santa Barbara and went actually swimming. Gosh, that was fricking cold, my skin felt like I had pins and needles after I got out of the water and the sun shined on me. But it was a really good refreshment and it’s so nice to feel that salty water on the skin.
    Sara, another girl that worked in the cafe, Mona and I were allowed to stay in the house in Santa Barbara right at the beach for the night. We had beer and wine and good music. That’s all we needed to enjoy our night 😂💃🏽🍷
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