January 11th, I took a bus to go to Tortel, a small village whih only have wooden path (no streets on the ground). I got lucky ad actually managed to take a boat for the last part of the trip and arrived to Tortel by boat throuht the beautiful islands. I met 2 chilean guys on the boatwhich wee here to do some tourism prospections... The village is really unique and even if it was raining a bit, I found it really nice. Arriving by boat was a big plus cause I started at the end of the village where there are no tourist. It was actually much bigger than what I thought and had to hurry a bit my exploration of all the streets to catch the bus to go back to Cochrane. Once again the bus was stopping in super remote places where few families are living.
The next day I took a bus from Cochrane to Coyhaique where I stayed one night. I wanted to go directly to Cochamo from Coyhaique the next day but there are no direct buses and I actually have to pass by Puerto Montt to catch a bus down to Cochamo.
At the end, on January 13th I took a bus to Chaiten. The bus passed through the park of Queulat on a very bad road and bad weather but the vegetation is super dense and impressive. It realy looked like the jungle!! I met Ben, on american guy, on the bus with whome I stayed the next 2 days. He is doing some woofing around Chile. We arrived mid afternoon in Chaiten and found a hostel. He weather got mih better and we saw a great sunset on the city. Chaiten is really nicely placed with the ocean on one side (with otaris swimming around) and mountains with dense jungle on the otherside. And amon the mountains around, there is an active volcano which has smoke coming out of it; really nice!
The next day Ben and I took a bus to hike toward the volcano. Super nice weather when we left but by the time we arrived to the place with the view on the volcano it got all cloudy and we coudn't see anything. We met 4 girls from chile, 4 guys from chile, 2 guys from the US and a guy from Germany while waiting on top fornthe weather to clear up. We managed to see up to some fumes but couldn't see the complet top. And of corse by the time we got back to Chaiten it was possible to see the entire volcano... Still realy nice and we spend a good time with the 4 hiean guys chating for quite some time there. In the evening we met 2 Australians at the hostel who were gong down the patagonia with inflatable kayaks. Quite impressive adventurers!
January 15th Ben and I took a bus to Puerto Montt (faster than the ferry at the end and the ferry was all booked anyway). Super oong travel with a not so great bus. The ool thin was that we had to take 3 short different ferries. It was a great way to have breaks and amazin views! Ben and a Chilean guy plaed great music on one of the ferry making the trip even better. We ended up catching a bus to Puerto Varas from Puerto Montt and found a hostel there.
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