This also is South America: Fjords and forests like you would expect just in Scandinavia or Sweden. Dolphins came along with us when we took the beautiful ferry trip to the national park "Parque Pumalin" east of the island Chiloe. (mi)

A fondly designed biofarm close to a picturesque located camp ground. No, this is not the national nature conservation. This is the privat property of Douglas Tompkins, a multimillionaire from North America. He created here on more than 1250 Square miles the worlds biggest private nature protection area. We thought, that the park is so remarkable that we want to introduce it in detail. (mi)

Parque Pumalin offers gorgeous hiking pathes in a nearly unaffected nature. Several days we hiked in Parque Pumalin with our friend Simone, who came from Germany (!) to visit us. We thought that forests can't be more beautiful or ranker. Here we also made two amazing tree pictures.á (mi)

The hiking pathes lead you along mountain sides where countless creeks flow down to end up in beautiful waterfalls and mountain lakes. However the hikes are sometimes quiet exhausting! (mi)

The famous Carretera Austral, the continuation of the Panamericana in the South of Chile also guides through the rain forest of Parque Pumalin.
Yes, you are right. The bicycles are missing! The trip to the Little South we did by bus and foot. But we missed our bikes much because the backpack have been really heavy. However we probably wouldn't have had fun on the washboard road. (mi)

January and February are here the only two nearly rainfree month. When we've been there at the end of February it started getting really wet. People here are used to three or four times as much rain as we have in Germany. How good, that hostels like this in Chaiten south of Parque Pumalin still have this comfortable old wood burning stoves. A convenient place to enjoy a hot cup of mate tea while you are drying and getting warm again. (mi)

South American equanimity: the failunre of the breaks of the bus nearly has been our early end on the serpentines in the mountains. In the nick of time the helper of the bus driver threw big rocks in front of the wheels of the bus to stop the vehicle. But only the "gringos" got cream-faced, the other passengers waited calm or helped the busdriver quiet relaxed to repair the breaks. (mi)

Futaleufu is the name of the village and the river, which wows all canoeists and rafters. Unfortunately we have been a little too late there and so our planned raftingtour didn't take place cause of the rain.
Furthermore Futaleufu is a good place to extend the visa by doing a short trip to Argentina. We stayed exactly 10 minutes at the border and then went back to Chile. (mi)

The mirror lake "Lago Espejo" really looks like it is named. At a little hike around the lake a small dog followed us spontaneously. At the end he didn't want to leave us! (mi)

What is the best to do when you have contineous rain and have to stay in a little village waiting for the ferry? Go for a swim! Nicolas, the famous tour guide, accompanied us on his charimba while we took a bath in the hot springs. (mi)