Pucón, Chile - Polarsteps

Semana Santa, as Easter is called here, we "celebrated" in Pucón!🎉 A village known for its outdoor, adrenaline-pumped tourism as well as 'muy tranquilo' activities. We voted for both. ✌️ However, we postpone our primary plan to climb the vulcano. Right now the vulcano is active 🌋(if you read this, we survived!) and a climb on the vulcano means you have to stop half a kilometer below the crater. We asked the office why we would do such a trekking anyway, the answer 'because of the views on the village' made us decide not to go. Call us spoiled, but we have probably seen better views...😅🤭 (Sledding after the climb is another reason to go 🛷, but due to the lack of snow such fun would only last for several minutes) The same office also offered a canyoning tour, which we joined the next day! It started at a small stream, where we thought: "Is this it?" Following the stream it started with abseiling the first waterfall - and two more followed, all of considerable height. It was quite scary and super exciting. For the rest, it was not like sliding through a wild-water river, but it was a wonderful 'wade' through the stream in a small and high canyon! Cool stuff! 💦 On Easter day we stayed home: our shoes needed a day of rest, still totally wet from the day before💦. And Liselot needed some rest too, not feeling well. Fortunately, we got wifi+series ;) The last day in Pucón we had another activity on the program, the not-to-be-missed visit to the thermas geométrica. Because of all the volcanic activity there are lots of hot spring ♨️ in the area. This is the most scenic one. A series of boardwalks leads into a canyon and continue for 500 meters until a (unfortunately) cold waterfall. The boardwalks are surrounded by eighteen baths with different temperatures, varying between 33-45°C. It served as a good destination to relax, before we hopped into our next night bus to Valparaíso! 🚍

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