Woke up this morning and thought, since I was so close to Puerto Montt I should probably go have a look and see if can get my ticket to get to Chiloe today. It was a pretty easy exercise getting from Puerto Varas to Puerto Montt a half an hour bus ride. There was a lot of construction on the way there though.
The bus stop was on the coast and it was in a run down shack type building, which wasn't that tidy but it served it's purpose. There was a board walk type of thing, going around the coast to the town centre. I walked this the entire way to the end. It was quite a picturesque town I have to say. There is a number of statues or head figures with the various Chilean heros on it. There was also a number of old train locos. I thought it was actually quite a wonderful way of a type of open air museum if you will.. It was actually quite a fresh idea on the old funny smelling buildings we usually associate with Museums and that only old people and stupid tourists that visit them.
The town wasn't really anything special I have to say. It was just a simple town with a main street, the lonely planet does have a point I guess it's a place where you don't want to spend too much time in if you have the choice.
There is a very cool guy across the road from where the bus stop is selling grilled meat.. He's the best when it comes to grilled meat I have to say. It's the best thing you'll ever have.. There's also a market a little way out of town but there wasn't much for me there given that it's mostly touristy stuff.. I didn't find it very interesting but I guess that's just me.
Went back to Puerto Varas and had some nibbles with Andrea and then we parted as she left on the bus and I stayed an extra night. Going to Ancud tomorrow..
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