Puerto Varas and Myststerious Chiloe

Less than a week until Lollapalooza in Chile! The countdown begins and im super stoked for this upcoming weekend, but there is still more slated and lots that has happened since last post..... I am in the town of Pucon, the base camp sitting under Chile's most dangerous and active Volcanoe, Villarica, which exploded hot creamy lava last week over the surrounding area. I got here after spending the we,kend in Puert Varas, an old German town just west of the Andes and north of the port town Puert Montt, which is also sanwhiched between a lake and two volcanoes, you can see that in one of the pics.  Yesterday, i took a full day tour of Chiloe, the magical and mysterious island just off the coast in the Pacific, and also the end of the great intercontinental highway we call in San Diego "The 5". On the island they have really cool buildings, the houses one one side of the road are built on top of the water. Guess they like to maximize their space. After that tour I immediately jumped on a red eye bus up the five to Temuco, from where I had to ditch the bus at 3:00am and hacer dedo (hitch hike) into Pucon. I realized after a while its probably quite creepy/horror filmish to be hitchiking in the middle of the night, so it was a quick power camp next to the interstate and catch a ride 100km into Pucon. On tap for today is some level 5 rapids and a hot springs sesh in the evening with the hostel. Then onto Concepcion tomorrow! Here are some pics of the last couple of days. Puert Varas tops, Chiloe bottoms