Pucon

We arrived in Pucon in Chile with the intention of going up to climb a volcano. The Wednesday on which we arrived was very grey and gloomy. We went to shop around for a good price on an excursion up to the volcano. Apparently it is necessary to have a guide with you. Frankly, that sounds fair because I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to mountain climbing. Unfortunately, everyone was telling us the same thing: the weather will be really bad for the next couple of days, so no one will be going up. We all agreed that we should probably wait a couple of days to see if the weather cleared up.

In the meantime, we needed to find something to occupy ourselves with. There really is very little to do in Pucon, other than climb the mountain. The only other thing that sounded amusing was the hot springs. We had been told that there was one spring where the let your bring your own drinks, so that's the one we went to on Thursday. It was actually a very enjoyable day. The weather was really nice, but we could not climb because the weather on the mountain made climbing too dangerous.

On Friday we were once again told that climbing would once again be impossible. We had had enough of the town by that point, so we decided to go down to El Bolson in stead.