Pucon and Concepcion

Here are somepics from Pucon and Concepcion.  Concepcion was great, i stayed with Luca, a friend of a friend, who lives in Concepcion and he showed me a great time.  There was a 9.2 earthquake in Concepcion in 2010 andthe city pretty much was an everybody for themselves situation for a week.  But the structural engineering is so good here in Chile that thw city looked in great shape. You couldnt even tell there was a major catastrophe here just five years ago.  Concepcion is a great city, full of young people, it is a big college town....not one that many tourists frequent, so it was very sweet to stay and hang.  I wish i could have stayed longer.  Anyways here are some more pics.  Last one is us eating the best empanadas in the world! From a small shop on the side of the road about a half an hour outside of concepcion, whole in the wall or ______ as they say here.

 Villarica volcanoe, that exploded a week ago, from outside my hostel, in Pucon

The center of campus of universidad de concepcion, a private and very high regarded university

Art gallery room inside art exhibition

Inside the art exhibition at universidad de concepxion...mural in the background was a gift from mexico to the chileans to represent unity of all of the american countries

Me at a secret laguna outside of concepcion

The country flower, a very rare find, but one that my friend Luca was able to spot