Some priority’s.
Resolve the wifi issue. It’s difficult to know the meaning of the repeated txt messages from the cell phone company. Are they about to terminate our supply? Are they trying to sell us something? So after packing up and saying good-bye to our reclusive neighbour’s beautiful border collie pup, we headed into the town.
A phone shop advertising Entel products, could not or would not help us. Directed us back to a supermarket…who were just as useless. However, a young assistant, after trying to help, suggested we head for the Entel shop several doors down the road. What a great idea..:)!
The Entel shop.
To the question, “do you speak English”? “No” came the curt reply, but within a minute or two he was explaining everything, well, nearly everything, we needed to know, in English. The upshot, we still had plenty of data left. How much? 10,000peso’s…whatever that is!!..:)
A cup of coffee and refueling Poki with diesel and we were on our way…but which way? After consulting the map and entering several options on the sat-nav, we decided to head back to Villarrica, then try and hug the several lakes in the area, rather than going back to the boring R5.
Between 39 and 40deg latitude.
The countryside and climate have changed dramatically. Gone the dusty roads in the towns and sparse vegetation. Also, the fine warm weather. After stopping by the roadside for lunch at 2pm, raindrops started. We are now camped 7k’s out of Los Lagos and since lunch the heavens have opened up. Clearly it’s been raining for a few days as there are big puddles, and camping is not looking so attractive. The question we asked ourselves, should we get a cabin for the night? Following that thought we followed a sign, ‘Cabana’s’ but true to form, there was not a person in sight and the cabins looked, anything but inviting. What is it with the hospitality industry here? Campsites, dirty, disgusting with little or no care, or maintenance, yet they want top dollar.
Tonight’s Swiss camp owners house.
How much the countryside has changed, and too, the perceived standard of living. From the dry desolate north, with a look of hopelessness in the people, to the tourist towns surrounding the lake areas with their opulent hotels and beautiful houses. Jen mentioned the feel of Pucon. Very much like Whistler in Canada, or Queenstown, in New Zealand. The fields, heavy with the greenest grass, crops, including rice, and fat cattle. Saw mills proliferate and also the stem size of the trees, has increased.
The people generally, are warm and friendly. The young people prefer to put wider wheels on their cars that stick out well past the body panels, or utilities, that they drive with abandon. There is a far greater civility on the roads, compared with northern countries.
Chileans love their flag. It’s displayed everywhere
I suppose then next big change, is going to be the roaring winds and bleak landscapes of Tierra del Fuego.
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