I'm in Chile!: Pucón

Ok, well here's some pictures! Finally!

Pucón is a cute little tourist-y town about 12 hours south of here, built on the edge of Lake Villarrica and nearly at the base of Volcan Villarrica. The buildings were all wood-and-stone lodge kind of construction. It was nice to get away to someplace quiet for a weekend of nature!

The first day in Pucón, after making our excursion reservations (volcano climbing, horseback riding, rafting, and canopy were all optional... I did the volcano and canopy), we visited several waterfalls

and a lake

and finished up at some hot springs, natually heated water pumped up from under the volcano.

That felt nice, although the weather was cold there- like real November!

Then all the girls in my cabin (5 of us), plus three other girls and Zan's dad made dinner together! Our original plan was cook-out, but as we forgot to buy charcoal we settled for oven... we made chicken that we marinated in teryaki sauce while on the tour, spaghetti, salad, and brownies! yum! That was nice. Yay for ISA-paid trips being in such nice accomadations (we had a two-story cabin!)

(Notice I'm eating with a spoon... our cabin, like I said, was for 5 people. lol)

On Sunday, most of the group had signed up for canopy, which is like zipline, so we went to do that in the afternoon. The place we went boasts the longest canopy in South America, 4 lines (and 2 practice lines) for a total of 3km (~1.8 miles)!