We (being my friends Kelsea, Honni and I) started our journey a bit tired because we stayed out dancing all night the night before but we had plenty of time for napping because the bus ride was about 5 hours. We are still unsure of why the bus couldn't drop us off in the actual town, so we started the journey on the side of the highway but were soon hitchhiking/walking ourselves into what we hoped was the right direction. Chileans keep proving to me that they are genuinely kind people because we were soon picked up by a really sweet music teacher who dropped us off in the town plaza. The stars aligned again because the hostel that had been recommended to us just happened to be sitting there waiting for our weary selves to walk right in and take over. We dropped our stuff off and began our grand adventure.
Puerto Varas is a lovely little German establishment that is right on a gorgeous lake with a view of two large volcanoes. We awed and oohed over the view for quite a while and then decided to try our hands at being voyeurs and checked out the neighborhoods. The architecture was unbelievable. It was straight out of a fairy tale, what I picture Hansel and Gretel to be like (before the witches and cooking of children, etc) and there were various houses offering freshly made kuchen, pies, and cakes. It may be heaven on earth.
We stumbled upon this ridiculous looking home turned into a museum(Pablo Fierro Museum). It looked like a Tim Burton creation, but it said it was free and who am I to pass up a free museum? We walked into the most bizarre world of trinkets, antiques, paintings, and drawings. We were completely clueless about who this eccentric genius could be and dumbly asked, "Who is Pablo Fierro?" We were expecting him to be some dead guy, but alas he was the living breathing man in front of us. He led us around, told us about his vision, and let us wander around his world. He was so incredibly kind and had the most gentle eyes. We wandered around and I picked out some decorations for my future home (which leads me to a far more loaded question, what should I do after this adventure? I am open to most suggestions, I can't believe I just asked that on my blog, my mom is going crazy trying to gather all her suggestions).
We ended our near perfect day (the only blunder being we were nearly attacked by a gang of stray dogs) by dancing our hearts out and relishing in the beauty of Chile.
We spent Saturday wandering around Puerto Varas and falling victim to the many handicrafts, I can't resist handmade sweaters for my nieces, especially not when the women are telling me that it will look so cute on them. I know they have no idea what she looks like, but I also know that my nieces are darling in anything, clearly I am still justifying my actions.
We also went on a beautiful walk along the river to the next town over. We also stopped along the way to admire the houses and were offered a tour of one of the houses. It was gorgeous and made us all wish we worked for House and Home so we could tour gorgeous lake houses all the time.
I know this is a bit lengthy, but I am clearly in deep love and cannot stop myself.
Unfortunately I was completely absentminded and forgot to buy batteries so I have very few pictures, but check out pablofierro.cl and enjoy the few photos I have.
At the Pablo Fierro Museum.
I fell in love with this home (that is a volcano in the background).
This church is awesome and made out of corrugated tin, I'm sure the priest loves giving his homily during the rain (and yes, it does rain a lot).
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