{"id":4588,"date":"2020-04-12T02:01:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T02:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2020-04-12T02:27:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T02:27:41","slug":"13th-january-2015-puerto-varas-and-around-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/?p=4588","title":{"rendered":"13th January 2015 &#8211; Puerto Varas and around the lake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today we drove around the lake but unfortunately it was very overcast and misty with some precipitation about so the views weren&#8217;t as good as yesterday afternoon.\u00a0 Driving in Chile on the right hand side of the road in our right hand drive MG is starting to feel more comfortable.\u00a0 Turning right is great (just like turning left at home) but turning left feels really weird and we have to concentrate to keep to the right.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure it will start to feel better soon.\u00a0 We drove through small lakeside villages on lovely winding MG roads that are in excellent condition.\u00a0 Our first stop was at a cemetry on top of a hill in Puerto Octay, what a wonderful resting place these people have.\u00a0 We couldn&#8217;t help notice how old most of them were when they died, maybe it&#8217;s their lay back lifestyle.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"\">We drove about 3\/4 of the way up Volcano Osomo to the bottom of the chair lift.\u00a0 It was even more misty up there and quite bleak, so we didn&#8217;t bother taking a ride through the clouds on the chair lift.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"\">The drive down was a good test for our brakes and the roads in Peru where we descend from high altitude.\u00a0 Pleased to report that they performed well unlike Blue B that lost it&#8217;s brakes.\u00a0 We&#8217;re off to town now to find a Ferreteria (Hardware store) to buy cartucho gas (butane gas) for our soldering iron.\u00a0 We&#8217;re really enjoying reading the comments being left, so please keep them up as it makes us feel more close to home.\u00a0 Adios until tomorrow wifi permitting.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Today we drove around the lake but unfortunately it was very overcast and misty with some precipitation about so the views weren&#8217;t as good as <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/?p=4588\" title=\"13th January 2015 &#8211; Puerto Varas and around the lake\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qvHY-1c0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4589,"href":"https:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions\/4589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}