Volcan Villarica and the food of Pucon  Trip Start Apr 14, 2010
Trip End Apr 16, 2011  Loading Map Map your own trip! Map
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District, Wednesday, March 23, 2011  Now, after our multiple
volcano extravaganza in New Zealand we had thought that we had
had enough of lugging our way up to the top of them and so had
no particular plans to climb volcanoes in Pucon. However, on the
bus across from Barriloche we met an English couple and an Irish
couple who were both planning on climbing a volcano called
Villarica and had heard it was a really fun trip. It was about
this time when the bus swung around a corner (we were in the
panoramic seats at the top in the front) and a huge, white
tipped, smoking volcano muscled into view. We both took one look
at it, glanced at each other and knew immediately that we would
do it. It was just too there to not climb it.  So, the next day
we all were fitted out with some climbing kit, bundled into a
minibus with a bunch of guides