The best vacations I have ever had

One of my favorite trips was the one I did with two friends, Gabriel and Pablo. At first there were four of us, but a friend had problems and had to come back the second day :(. We went backpacking to the south of Chile. It was a month long trip during the summer of 2022.

We start our trip in Puerto Montt and from there we go down to Chiloé. Our first stop was Ancud, then we did our first trekking, which was very long and exhausting, but at the same time very beautiful, from Duhatao to Chepu, we walked through the forest between mountains (Chiloé is the coastal mountain range) and then through the edge of the beach to then reach Chepu, but not before crossing the river of the same name, all this between intermittent rains. It is an unforgettable walk that I highly recommend doing, yes, without so much weight in the backpack, because you are going to walk for many hours, beware that the mobile signal also goes away.

Then we had a one-week stopover in Castro, where we stayed with a friend who took us for a walk to very beautiful places, Queilen was one of those, there I saw one of the best sunsets I've ever seen. With him we went to Cole-Cole, an inhospitable beach where we saw many animals, especially birds, even a penguin reached the seashore, we also saw whales in the distance.

Then we crossed from Quellón to Puerto Cisnes and started our way back to Puerto Montt through the interior of the country. We were in the Queulat National Park, Puyuhuapi and Laguna Los Pumas -I highly recommend going to this place, it is a beautiful lagoon surrounded by trees and in the background you can see the Melimoy hill, also the ground is not sand or stones, it is fallen leaves, for which is soft and, the water is warm!-.

Then we went to Futaleufú, where we met many people, actually throughout the trip we met many people, but in Futa there were many more, I think it was because we stayed 5 days, it is a place that catches you; from here you can go to Laguna Pinilla. 

Our last great trekking was in El Amarillo National Park, in its southern part. We walked towards a huge snowdrift, with Gabriel we approached until we touched it, it was great (although I think it is illegal shh).

We finally took a ferry from Chaitén to Puerto Montt, there we spent our last night with a couple of cousins ​​who lived their first night, that was a crazy coincidence.