Costs pp: Hospedaje 5,000, in a white house with no name. All the other places visited were 10,000pp regardless of how good or bad but this white house had lovely people and good beds. For 1,000 extra you could have breakfast.
There were no buses from Puerto Cisnes north so we loaded up and hitched. A nice guy picked us up in his ute, Kent in the back with the packs and Carol up front trying to make conversation. We are not sure where the guy was actually going, he kept going to stop then would start on again and take us further and further. In the end he let us off in the middle of the National Park Quelat. The road looked like a back road to Minginui so we wondered if we had been abandoned in the middle of nowhere but no it was the main road. Several cars passed us without stopping at a great rate of knots and we thought it might actually be a little dangerous to be hitching on the road. We walked through stunning scenery on a beautiful day for about 2 hours then called it quits at a bridge where we sat and just waited.
Finally a guy with a ute loaded with wood and with only 2 spare seats stopped and gave us a ride to Puyuhuapi. When we got to this very scenic little bay the first thing we did was to check when and where the bus was. We found there was no bus until the next night, after our ferry had sailed, so we bought a ticket on the 8pm bus to the next town (La Junta) on the way where they assured us there would be a bus in the morning.
The 8pm bus arrived at 9pm and we arrived in La Junta after 10pm which is the worst time to search for a place to stay but Carol ventured forth and after 3 or 4 misses found a place we could afford. A white 2 storied house with a piece of paper in the window saying 'Hospedaje' and a big yard out back with trucks in. Everyone inside was watching the Chile stopping soap opera called 'Donde esta Elisa' on at 10pm every week day night. Our room had a sloping ceiling and two great beds and we piled in and slept well until our alarm went off at 7am ready to catch our 8am bus to Chaiten.
