Valdivia

After Panguipulli, I headed to Valdivia. I stayed with host Cristian in a part of the city a bit removed, called Niebla. His house is the last on his street and at the base of a lushous hill with a stream running through his yard.

He has 2 maybe 3 dogs that are adopted stray dogs, 2 of them have only 3 functioning legs, I think from having chased cars.

After dropping my bag and tea, we headed over to the beach (5 min away). The sand here is black. We played a bit on the beach and did some contact improv/ acroyoga. Cristian is a dance instructor. The next day we went back to the beach, met a crazy dog, and walked around Valdivia looking for apple strudel. By the way, there is a bit of German influence once you get to this area of Chile and south. 

That night we were almost out of gas and had plans to make a cream lasagna, so we bbq'ed the preparations and utilised only the oven. It was amazing. 

The next day, we got up early to go to another beach and met la reina del playa rosada. Cristian invited me to go with him to one of his high school classes at a nearby village. So that was fun.

 That night I took advantage of the high ceiling living room and played a bit.                                                      

By the way, if you drop cream into coffee it will rise to the top  (looks like intestines). The next day I made a quiche and headed off to Frutillar.