Rolo on Tour

Temuco, Pucon, Puerto Varas and the island of Chiloe. What can I say about these places? Well, it was not too exciting FOR ME. But it’s not the problem of those places, as they all lie in beautiful surroundings. The problem lies probably more in the fact that I’m already travelling for quite a while, so it is hard to find new things that excite me that much. It is now often like this:
Oh, there is a nice volcano. Ah, have been to too many of them. See, there is a nice lake. Well, lakes I have seen plenty. Wow, there are some beautiful waterfalls around. Hmm, another waterfall…
You get the idea: It is getting difficult to always encounter completely new experiences. But I am not complaining about it, as it´s probably just part of travelling, isn´t it?
Some things are still enjoyable, though:

Yes, it was already beer o’clock

So I was quite happy to get some distraction by doing a ferry trip from Puerto Montt to Puerto Natales, which was supposed to take us 3 nights. As I have never been that long on a ship and the movement used to cause me some sickness in the past, I bought some pills to fight that before entering the ship. Well, what I did not know about those pills is that they also make you sleepy and so the first 2 days you could often find me like that:

Sweet dreams are made of this

I probably slept as well, while other people were busy taking pictures like that:

Splash!

Also we had some delay, as the ship was stopped for nearly a whole day – it would have been to dangerous to go into the open ocean at that time. So we got an extra day of sitting around and doing not too much – the weather being rainy and cloudy almost all the time. Only the last day was nice, sailing through the fjords of Patagonia and enjoying the time outside.

Fairplay is important, kids

Teaching some famous combinations

Safety first

Jugglers never get bored anywhere!

Finally we reached our destination in Puerto Natales. After waiting what felt like ages we could leave the ship and the rest of the day was spent trying to organize everything for the next day: The national park Torres del Paine was waiting…

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