Justine and Dylan’s Travel Blog

Well, today we went mountain biking from Pucon. Had to fit in at least a few activities (we did hiking and biking) as would have felt guilty skipping every adventure activity on offer here (which covers just about most in existence). So mountain biking it was today. Had forgotten (from Tuscany in 2005) that we don´t go cycling often and that hilly places are not a good place to start. Scenery was great (especially the Ojos de Calburgua, so blue lakes and waterfalls… very photogenic), but let´s just say I´ll sleep well tonight. And I´ll be walking funny for a few days. 

Last thing I thought worth mentioning is the “vulcano traffic light” installed on the roof of the tourist information centre. As I mentioned before, Pucon is near the (still active) Villaricca vulcano (at the base pretty much actually), so I guess they figured some sort of vulcano information device would be a good idea. It´s currently on green which I´m guessing is a good thing. If it hits red I guess things are going to get interesting around here very quickly. Or it will anyway for those tourists stupid enough to need a traffic light to tell them that the vulcano is going off. Didn´t work out what the orange was for. Perhaps I should´ve read the explanatory text that went with the traffic light. Silly tourist.