Pucon – Tourists, a Lake and a Volcano Pucon is a major tourist town in Chile. The small town is loaded with restaurants, cafes, outdoor adventure tour companies and healthy dose of cold weather equipment shops. The tourist masses are a mix of foreigners and locals, all millingaround a beautiful town that sits by a…

The capitol of Chile and possibly the easiest city I’ve come across to simply walk around. Everything is in walking distance, however that may not be saying too much as there really isn’t a lot to see and do in Santiago. It’s certainly a nice city,in a very westernised way, but there’s not much particularly…

Valparaiso, or Valpo for us locals, is the countries cultural capital and a UNESCO city. As I’ve mentioned previously, Chile defies being what you’d expect from a South American country and Valpo turns that up a few notches. Sitting on the Pacific Ocean it is a major port city and the bulk of the city…

Rest Stop in San Pedro de Atacama San Pedro is strange and unusual town. Out in the Atacama desert it’s the launching point to visit the Salar de Uyuni from the Chilean side of the border, or the finishing point if you’re running that circuit from Bolivia like I had done. It’s a good way…