Our friends in Puerto Montt

There is not much to say about Puerto Montt (the town we went to after Pucon). It's a town with a port. Nice strudels though.

Our stay there was made special by a lovely Gonzales family. We met up with Nestor, the friend we made in Santiago and a native of Puerto Montt. He showed us around the place, took us to what is probably the only rock bar in Puerto Montt to check out a very inventive Chilean band, all decked out in silk pajamas.

We got a couple of side trips in before we caught the boat south to Puerto Natales. We went to Puerto Varas, a beautiful spot on the side of a lake next to a Volcano. We even managed to trek up the volcano (well a bit of it!) We also went to Chiloé, a lovely island just 30 minutes by boat away, but much further away in feel with weird people and far too many churches. The island is a starting point of the might Pan-American Highway that end somewhere in Alaska. That is cool, eh?!

After all that tramping around we were invited to meet Nestor's family, who were amazingly welcoming and lovely people who like Yugoslav movies, Kusturica and No Smoking Orkestra. That certainly started the conversation going. Wicked!.