Chile & Easter Island - Sur Chico (Chapter)

This is the Sur Chico chapter from Lonely Planet’s Chile & Easter Island guidebook.

The Chilean south begins here. The regions of La Araucanía, Los Ríos and the Lakes District jar travelers with their menacing ice-topped volcanoes; its glacial lakes that look like melted Chinese jade; and roaring rivers running through old growth forests and villages inhabited by the indomitable Mapuche people.

• Visit one of the most beautiful places in the world you’ve probably never heard of on an etnoturismo jaunt to Caleta Condor (boxed text, p )
• maps
• Trek the otherworldly landscapes of La Araucanía’s volcanically altered national parks: Reserva Nacional Malalcahuello-Nalcas and Parque Nacional Conguillío (p )
• transport
• Shred Andean powder driving your own dogsled on a majestic seven-day Andean crossing with Aurora Austral Patagonia Husky
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: La Araucanía, Temuco, Parque Nacional Tolhuaca, Parque Nacional Conguillío, Curacautín, Reserva Nacional, Malalcahuello-Nalcas, Melipeuco, Villarrica, Pucón, Parque Nacional Villarrica, Río Liucura Valley, Parque Nacional Huerquehue, Curarrehue, Lican Ray, Los Ríos, Valdivia, Around Valdivia, The Lakes District, Osorno, Entre Lagos, Parque Nacional Puyehue, Puerto Octay, Frutillar, Puerto Varas, Ensenada, Parque Nacional Vicente Pérez, Rosales, Cochamó, Río Cochamó Valley, Río Puelo, Río Puelo Valley and Puerto Montt.