A bit of Villarrica

Not the most promising of starts but the forcast is good and after waiting for 30minutes suddenly the volcano appeared. Don decided to go for it but Clare elected to skip the volcano and go for a cycle with Will and Mel.

The transfer to the volcano takes you up to the carpark for the ski centre where we walked up the gentle ski runs and then on up the hill. En route the weather was very changeable from stunning sunshine to heavy snowfalls. When the sun shone there were fantastic views out to Lago Villarrica and over to the neighbouring volcano - Jaiva. Sadly having got up to about 2000m of the 2847 required to reach the top the clouds came in and we had to turn around. A real shame but going downhill was basically a fantastic sledge ride right down to the ski centre. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Clare´s cycle: we followed a similar route to that we went on a couple of days ago but this time with fantastic views of the mountains. After about 15km we decided to try to find Lago Caburgua, after climbing and climbing up the steep slope for about 4km we decided to check whether we were near the lake by popping into a local house. The dogs mating beside us and then one peeing all over Will´s handle bars added much to our journey and when the owner of the house looked totally baffled and pointed in the opposite direction for the lake we decided it was time to have some downhill fun!

That night we enjoyed a posh, Arabian, dinner as a slapup end to our time in Pucon.