So we have finally made it to our last day of our Pachamama tour and we headed back to Santiago. Maeve and Liam have become accustomed to sleeping or entertaining themselves on long rides.

We left Puerto Varas in the morning. We took a scenic route around Lake Llanquihue to a town called Frutillar named after the strawberries grown locally. Frutillar is a quaint town with less than 10,000 residents. It does attract tourists in the summer. We parked the van and walked a bit on the coastline to the main part of town. The Volcano Osorno was still covered by clouds, so we never got that view. These are the parts of Chile we would miss if we only traveled through major towns. 

Puerto Montt is a big port town (over 150.000) that is honored with the location of Chile's biggest fish market. It appears to be a struggling community mainly because there is not enough housing for the people who work there. We were told the government is trying to help by building more low income housing. The 1960 earthquake destroyed the port, so there is a more modern port now. The weather was fairly drab when we arrived, so that didn't help our impression of this town.