Visit The Lake District, Chile
The Lake District is an impossibly pretty region of the bluest waters, white-tipped volcanoes, waterfalls and ancient forests, perfect for gentle hiking, bike riding, fishing, relaxing in thermal pools and languorous cruises around fjords and glaciers.
The Chilean Lake District, Puerto Varas
If you study a map of Chile’s midriff, you can clearly see why the Lake District is so called.
Landscape
The network of blue shapes begin in the north at Temuco and stretch over 300 kilometres south to Puerto Montt, which is where the gentle lakes end and the landscape changes into the harsher face of northern Patagonia.
The Lake District is an impossibly pretty region of the bluest waters, white-tipped volcanoes, waterfalls and ancient forests, perfect for gentle hiking, bike riding, fishing, relaxing in thermal pools, languorous cruises around fjords and glaciers and the enjoyment of fresh air and good food and wine.
Places within The Lake District
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- Pucon is the popular and stylish epicentre of all activity in the northern lakes area.
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- This region’s airport, in the town of Puerto Montt, lies almost exactly half way between Santiago and Punta Arenas and this is the ideal point at which to alight for several days in the southern Lake District, whether you are then continuing down to Patagonia or journeying east into Argentina.
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