Villarica travers - Our first trek in South America, this time...

Well, as you can all imagine, not long after arriving to a place that offer treks we did one - The Villarica traverse. This trek surround the Volcanic mountain Villarica. At first it sounds just like the Tongerero circuit we did in New Zealand. But, the views in the trek were spectacular. Every couple of hours we saw different views and colors.































The trek can be done for 2-5 days. We did a 3 days trek. Both nights we slept next to a beautiful lagoons.

First night:











Second night:







Dinner:





Izick at work...







I must say that compare to treks in New Zealand this trek was quite easy, and if I say so, it is!!!













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Viarika Travers

South America, Here we come...

After 3 days in Costa Rica, we had a flight to South America.





It wasn't easy as it sounds. Our final destination was Santiago de Chile in Chile, but on the way we had a stop in Lime, Peru.

The stop in Lime was quite short, but it was nice seeing this airport for the second time after 6 years, and you can't believe the changes.
According to the airports it seems that Peru is not a third world country. But, I'll tell you that when we will be there, I can't wait to go back.

Finally, we arrived to Santiago at 2:00 in the morning. Izick didn't want to go to the city and find a nice hotel (you know Izick), since he didn't want to pay for the night.

So, we had a LOVELY night at the airport...









In the morning (8:00) we took a taxi from the airport to an hotel (Rio Amazonas).

At first, we had a bit of a shock, since Chile is not as cheap as we remembered South America. Also, you can't really say that Chile is the typical South America, as Bolivia and Peru.
The people looks European, everything looks like a European country, the fashion, the food and the environment.
I think it something that only a person who have been in South America can say.











We didn't spend much at Santiago, since she doesn't offer much, except good exchange rate and cheap Internet, everything else is quite expensive. (35$ per night in a hotel).

After 2 days we took a night bus to Pucon. A nice touristic town.
We had a worm welcome when we got there from Gina at Nature house (People who traveled here 6 years ago knows it as Ali and Shay place).
Gina is a Indian Chilean who become jewish. She speaks Hebrew fluently, which is very helpful.

Pucon offer several attraction for the common mochiler (backpacker).
We did some of them...

Central America - Costa Rica

Ola, Como Esta? and for the English speaking, Hi, How are you?

As you can imagine we started our second leg of our trip, which is South America with a short stop in Central America. It started with a flight from LA to Costa Rica (which is in Central America).

Apparently, LAX is not as vibrant as Tel Aviv airport!!!
We got to the airport at 23:00 for our 2:30 flight and at this hour nothing was opened in the airport so, we had to wait anxiously to our plane's meal. Finally, after long wait without no drinks we board on the plane.
It started like any other normal flight, we got our drinks after an hour and suprisingly our dinner was chips. Yes, this is what you get when you pay ONLY 700$ for a ticket in copa airlines.
Not long after having our "satisfying" chips, we had an emergency landing. Calm down, nothing dangerous or frightening happened, just one of the flight attended just fainted all of a sudden. So, after only 1 hour in the air we where back on the ground in Mexico.
(Well, for at least we can say we had another stop on our trip around the world). The stop didn't ended by just letting the flight attendant off the plane, NOooooooooo, we had to wait for about 3 hours with no news or any information about our delay. If it was an Israeli airlines with Israeli people on it, it wouldn't ended nicely.There were only spanish people, which seems to be much calm. Thanks god we didn't had any connection.

Finally the second take off began, after 3 exhausting hours. For at least we got another chips.

From here we had 3 more hours till we got to Costa Rica. The arrival to Costa Rica was quite smooth.
We took a taxi from the airport to our hotel, hotel Pacande (3$ which were paid by the hotel). The hotel was quite cosy.

We didn't see much of Costa Rica, since we staid there only for 3 days, but we are going to fix it when we will return to LA. We will have 2 weeks in Costa Rica.