Chile Part 2

Well part 2 it begins.. I'm currently in a little tourist town called Pucón about 9 hours south of Santiago. It was an overnight bus ride from the big smoke. Ok you might find that my writing is better in this post for now (those of you that complained about the last one would appreciate this I guess). Well not to tell you about Pucón yet but tell you about what happened in Santiago before I came. Well the as I said before it was an overnight bus from Santiago, the bus was scheduled to leave Station Alimeda at 23.45. I knew this would be quite late to try and catch the train from the hostel, as there was a big concert on that night so I booked the taxi for 11. Giving me an hour to get there, but as it is Chile they tend to think that time is not of the essence. So I waited until 23.25 for the taxi and finally it arrived and by this time there wasn't too much traffic on the street. But this delay gave me only 20 minutes to get there. I learnt how to say the word for fast fast fast and I kept on saying it to the guy "Rapido, rapido, rapido" and man I'm never saying that to a chilian taxi driver again. He drives even worse than me seriously, on little tiny streets similar to those in ponsonby he was going maybe 150km/hr. I was scared i only say maybe because I looked over his shoulder to see what the actual speed was, only to find that the speedo doesn't actually work as it was showing 20km/hr. Anyways so they do get you there on time but it just might make you piss your pants.

Ok so onto the more interesting stuff here. I have been in Pucón now for around 2 days as the weather has been quite horrible and I have not been able to do much. Lounging around the hostel planning my trip has been a highlight, and also the girls that run to hostel make it really easy to waste away the days. One is from Quebec City in Canada and the other is from Bonn, Germany. So as many of you will know I'm somewhat in heaven. Anyways, enough of that. I went to the Hotsprings here in Pucón last night it wasn't bad but it wasn't on par with Rotorua for the price I guess but it was interesting to see how tourism works in another country. I think I might have caught a cold from having to walk 150m from one rock pool to the other, but I have to say it was immensely enjoyable given that you were allowed to bring your own alcohol to drink in the hot springs. Oh just as a side note my god.. the grog here is cheap as peanuts seriously. A bottle of 770mL pisco which is the local spirit brew is around 33 proof. It was 1700 pasoes which is around NZ$6 it's amazing so I have been drinking that all the time it's amazing I don't think I want to leave just for that. LOL.. But I better be quick about finishing this post as the laptop is about to run out of juice. Ok so I've covered pisco and the hot-springs we shall move on to my most favorite part of any country "FOOD".

So I said I was going to cook 1 meal a day since I'm out of the city, so i've been cooking breakfast at the hostel. Today I cooked sausages and Eggs for breakfast, since I wasn't used to using gas I nearly singed my eyebrows off trying to light the stove which wasn't that funny although it was an experience. Anyways after I finished cooking this perfect meal in the pan I went to take it out and the stupid handle is broken on the pan so it swiveled and burned my hand so stupid human reactions decided to flip the eggs straight in the air and onto the ground. So after all that hard work I ended up losing most of the eggs I cooked 4 and ended up with maybe 1.5 needless to say I wasn't happy at all but I guess you gotta learn somehow right. Ok now on to more good parts of my food experiences. Here in Pucón there is a restaurant called Rap its a local burger joint, if you will and they serve the best burgers in the world I would go as far as to say. Last night I had a chicken burger which I will get again tonight for dinner. It was 2700 pasoes which is reasonable I guess in NZ$ think burger fuel but 2 times larger and with double the filling like an entire avocado, half a lettuce, half a chicken and tomato and all the chili you want. My god that was just heaven and for me a big boy with some would call an endless stomach, I was stuff and could nearly not walk out of the place to get home. It was wonderful and there's more wonderful to come yet. I found this old lady on the street that sells mixed vegetables in a bag, my god she's the cutest lady you can find apart from my grandma of course. I didn't have enough change to buy the bag which was 600 pasoes I only had a 10,000 note and 500 change I gave her the 500 and some loose stuff and she gave it to me without even asking for more. Anyways long story short I felt bad so when I finished buying stuff at the supermarket and got some change I gave her the rest of what I owed her and she was so surprised. She was even more surprised when today I went back to her little stall and bought another bag and this time Emma the girl from the hostel was with me and she helped me ask her for a photo she looked so happy, you could be mistaken in thinking that she just won the lottery. I love little old ladies, they're just the cutest thing. Anyway I think I've bored all of you enough, and I will apologize for this again as I'm in a little town there isn't much in terms of cable buying facilities so I have not been able to grab any of the photos off my camera so no photos in this post "Sorry" but I will try my best to get some photos up as soon as I can and my mac has just informed me that I have 10 minutes until I'm out of juice. So.. I better go and do something with me life and get back to being a professional traveller. Take care all of you.. Maybe I'll be bitten by someone soon, I am in an area full of bees and the land where PDA is more normal than sheep shagging. Ok if you don't know what PDA stands for look it up or it'll be in my next post. Ciao