Exploring Pucon

Pucón's location by a lake and volcano, along with its relatively stable climate, especially in summer, make it a popular tourist destination. It offers a variety of sports and activities, including water skiing, snow skiing, backpacking, whitewater rafting and kayaking, horse riding, natural hot springs, zip line rides, skydiving, and guided ascents of the Villarrica volcano.

We got up and had breakfast before heading into town to have a look around. Our first impressions from last night were confirmed. It's a very European-feeling town with lots of expensive designer shops and bijou cafés and restaurants. We enjoyed a walk around, but it's not really our sort of place!

We went to have a look at the public beach. It has black volcanic sand and wasn't somewhere we wanted to sit!

I then went in search of an optician. We found one who did a great job of fixing both my pairs of glasses and didn't charge me a penny! We also bought a Chilean SIM card in the hope that I can use it to contact the bank.Read more