{"id":1733,"date":"2010-12-15T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box2067.temp.domains\/~atinytri\/puerto-varas-and-frutillar\/"},"modified":"2018-12-13T16:53:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:53:56","slug":"puerto-varas-and-frutillar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atinytrip.com\/puerto-varas-and-frutillar\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Varas and Frutillar"},"content":{"rendered":"
We arrived in Germany, oops, I mean the Lakes District, greeted by clouds, rain and wind. From the Puerto Montt airport (where M was first off the plane), we picked up the car rental and immediately continued on to Puerto Varas. The small town is a tourist mecca and despite that we had trouble getting information about what to do and where to stay. Eventually we found ourselves in some wood cabins away from the rain. The afternoon we spent driving around to see the “architectural tour”- some of the first houses of the German settlement in southern Chile from the nineteenth century (and yes it does sound more interesting than it actually was). We ascended up the Cerro Phillip (hill) to see a tree-obstructed view of the area. Unfortunately the volcano views eluded us behind the clouds and we still had no idea in which direction we should be looking. So we tried to visit the next closest “picturesque” town- Llanquihue (pronounced Yan-kee-way). But the highlight of that town was a colorful cemetary and a Nestle factory- so we cut our losses and headed back to our wood cabin.<\/p>\n
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