Pucón

Pretty Pucón. After another 12 hour bus ride 🙄 (I'm so over them) I finally got to Pucón in Chile. This place is super nice, it reminds me a lot of Mt Fuji in Japan as the town sits in the view of the volcano and is surrounded by lakes too.

The whole reason for coming here was to climb the volcano because it's still active and you can see lava at the top, but I'd heard from a few people that the clouds were so low that some people had to turn back only half way up the volcano and didn't see the lava/ get their money back (it costs about £100) so I thought it was too risky and decided I will climb a volcano in Central America instead. 🌋

When I got to my hostel I met Sam and we decided to go to one of the thermal springs the next day. We shopped around for a deal and managed to go to one of the cheaper thermal springs and when we got there it was virtually empty and we had the whole place to ourselves. It was (a less than luxury) spa day of thermal pools, lunching and red wine. My perfect day. Over lunch time we found out we had mutual friends and had even been a the same birthday party together 😂 this world is seriously too small. In the eve I was sad to say bye when he left for Santiago but hopefully we'll meet up again.

Next day I met up with this Swiss girl Sarah who was on my bus from Bariloche to Pucón. We decided to go and find this waterfall which was about 5km away. It was funny because we got within 20m of the waterfall and could hear it, but couldn't find it because there were no signposts and the map they'd given us was really inaccurate. We walked past the place a good 5 or 6 times and had nearly given up and decided to walk back to the town when we bumped into two Americans, and then 2 locals who gave us a lift and showed up to the waterfall (which we would have never of found without them). After that we hitched another lift back to town as we were exhausted. It was a 6hr walk in the end.

Next I'm off to Santiago which I'm sooo excited about as I'm staying with a friends I met in São Paulo and were going to BRUNCHHH. Been hyping about this brunch ever since Rio. 🙌🏼Les mer