After breakfast we headed out on the bus for about an hour and twenty minutes around the lake shore line, stopping for pictures along the way, before we arrived at Petrohue National Park. Here we went on a 4 hour hike up towards the volcano Osorno. We were really lucky with the weather as it was warm and sunny, the day before was cold, cloudy and rainy and no one could see the volcano.
We had a really great walk, quite steep in places but worth the views. We were lucky to see the Magellanic woodpecker, Chimango Caracara and a Tufted Tit Tyrant!
We took an packed lunch and had that at the highest point of our walk, overlooking another beautiful lake and having views over to mountains in Argentina. After descending we walked back around a lake edge, where local people were fishing and enjoying the beach.
After our walk we returned to Punta Varas and after a brief tour of the town, went out for another great meal, steak and fish, washed down by a bottle of the finest red wine!
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