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Tuesday 5 January 2016

28 December 2015 –Caburga, Pucon and back to Temuco

After a lovely sleep-in and leisurely breakfast, we left Maison Nomade and headed up to Caburga to see the Lake.  Shockingly, the local government authority are involved in some useless infrastructure project at the lake foreshore that was completely blocking the usual view and access.  Poor shops etc on front of the lake.  I can’t imagine anyone doing anything different than what we did – turn around and leave.

We headed to Playa Blanca, where you can get another view of the Lake, walk along the edge etc, usually without much in the way of company of other people.  The solitude and views are wonderful.  On this occasion, it was a circus.  Perhaps because of the town foreshore works, there was an abundance of cars, new parking arrangements (in a paddock) that we had never seen previously, all for exorbitant sums (for Chile) of 4,000 pesos to park your car in a paddock.  For that price, one would expect a fancy carpark, toilets and so on, rather than the debacle we found.  Again, we left.

Back in Pucon, we wandered the streets for a while, trying not to twist ankles when stepping off the footpaths.  When we tired of window shopping, we found a pizza and pasta place for lunch, which made a nice change.  Afterwards, we wandered over the road to a dessert café type place called Kuchenlandia, where I indulged in my favourite Chilean dessert of Merengue with raspberries.  Gosh it was good.

Sugared up, we headed back to Temuco as uneventfully as it is possible to be.  I managed to hand back the car to FIL (father-in-law) without any additional marks on it than there were when we left!

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