Road Trip!!

So we rented a car in Puerto Montt, the rainiest place on earth and we've just spent 3 days camping in the lake region, mostly in the rain, walking through national parks and up snowy volcanoes. We're tired, cold, wet, stinky, hungry, and sunburnt, but loving it!


We finally did some wild camping without getting killed in the beautiful Chilean lake region, which is a photocopy of the rolling hills and lakes of Switzerland, complete with chalets and kuchen toot. There are more Germans here than in Germany and more cows than Germans.


We stopped in the wooden town of Pucon to walk through a national park and the next day we decided to climb up the active Volcano Villarica. It was the first time I've climbed up a snow-covered volcano, and so much fun!

We rushed up to the fog-covered crater with ice picks and all to get there before the storm. I've never seen so many shades (and smells from the smoking volcano) of white. After a few photos we ran back down the mountain, sliding down half of it on diaper-slidey butt things (according to Nadja). It was fun, sweaty, exhilirating, cold, exhausting, and completely worth it.

We spent last night wandering around trying to find someone's garden to sleep in and we finally found a kind Chilean who let us camp on his field. He even made us breakfast this morning! And even though it rained most of the night and we were 5 in a 4 person tent and we smell like old fish we are happy! Really, we are!