After about 18 hours on the ferry with a lot of rain and a long night (we only had normal seats and just behind me an old man snored terribly), we finally arrived in Quellón and surprisingly it wasn't raining for once... As it was already in the afternoon, we decided not to go on that same day, but to look for a hospedaje, which we found easily and there we met another Swiss couple, Ramona and Mirko, that we already knew from the ferry... We spent a wonderful evening with them, eating local salmon prepared by our host and chatting a lot. The next morning we prepared for another day of rain, but an extremely nice surprise awaited us, it kept dry all day long! So we started to cycle north on the Panamericana, that down here isn't really a highway yet... Even though most of the street was paved, it wasn't an easy nor very beautiful ride, almost the whole stretch between Quellón and Castro is under construction, so tons of construction trucks passed us... But we made it to Castro the same day, and coming down to the city we had a beautiful view over the bay that looks more like a lake than like the sea!
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| What looks like a lake actually is the sea... |
Castro itself is a very nice little city with its famous purple and yellow wooden church at the plaza and its also very famous palafitos at the coast. We only stayed there for a night, but we went out for some traditional seafood dinner...
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| In one of these palafitos we spent the night we stayed in Castro... |
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| The famous palafitos of Castro at low tide |
The next day we continued our way to the north shore of the island. In the morning it was terribly foggy (but dry!) so we didn't see anything. After a while it started to become more hilly which made it harder to advance, but as the weather got better it didn't bother us too much. It again stayed dry all day long, we even caught a glimpse of the sun, which was amazing! On our way we passed two more of the very typical wooden churches, unfortunately they were both closed, so we only saw them from outside...
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| One of the many wooden churches of Chiloé |
Once we got to Ancud, the city at the north shore of the island, we cycled to the Hostal Nuevo Mundo that is located at the Costanera and where we could see the sea from our beds :-) The weather got really good for a while, we enjoyed the sunlight on the playground just outside the hostel for a while before we went to the city center to visit the local church (this one was open, so we saw at least one of these nice churches from inside) and to buy something for dinner...
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| Our hostel in Ancud, located right at the coast :-) |
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| We even saw the sun when we got to the hostel in Ancud!! |
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The bay of Ancud - this was the view we had from the hostel
One wouldn't believe that half an hour later it was so foggy we didn't see anything anymore... |
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| The wooden church of Ancud |
Luckily we enjoyed the sun for a while before we went to the city, as very soon it was all foggy again and we saw nothing anymore... So we spent a nice evening at the hostel chatting with the other guest before we went to bed early. The next morning we enjoyed a delicious breakfast at the hostel before we took off into the fog... We hardly saw a thing and soon it started drizzling, so cycling wasn't too funny that morning. Soon we reached Chacao, a small village at the north shore of Chiloé, where Stefan went to get us something to eat before we left this for us very foggy island on the ferry to Pargua...
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