Niklitschek Beach

It is a beautiful beach, surrounded of nature and located to 7 Km. of the city. It has a private beach, wharf, recreational activities, jetty, soccer court, business, parking and a camping zone.

Ensenada

It is located to 46 Km. of Puerto Varas. It was a port dedicated to the landing of tourists that went to Argentina before the construction of the coastal road. Nowadays, is the main tourist center of the oriental riverside of Llanquihue Lake. It has a fine sand beach of  2.5 Km. of extension and it has restaurants, camping zone and cabins.

Playa Hermosa

It is located on the riverside of Llanquihue Lake. It has a soft slope, fine sands of gray color, its waters are crystalline and during the summer time its temperature oscillates between the 12ºC and the 18º C. It is appropriated to practice swimming and water sports like sport fishing, sailing and windsurf. Near to the beach a camping zone is located that can be visited during the year.

Loreley Island

Traveling across the route that begins in the seaside of Puerto Varas, in the route to Ensenada, you go to La Poza, a beautiful lagoon located between cliffs and exuberant vegetation. It has a service of boat trips that allows to travel the lagoon and to visit the Loreley Island. In the zone it can be practiced the sport fishing

Saltos del Petrohué

The Petrohué River is the origin of those singular waterfalls. The river runs among big masses of hard lava, formed by smaller stones united with vitreous material that are visible. They were originated from crystallized lava that smashed to bits during the Cold era and then it was soldered for a new layer of lava. The area where the waterfalls are located  is part of the Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park.

Lago Todos los Santos

It is located to 18 Km. of Puerto Varas and to 82 Km. to the northeast of Puerto Montt. It has an extension of 175 Km² and 36 Km. of lenght, it is also known as Esmeralda because of the color of its water (emerald colour). The Todos los Santos Lake has a volcanic origin, because the lava of the Osorno volcano created the barrier in the valley and it deviated to Ralún the waters of the Petrohué River that drained in the Llanquihue Lake. 

It is surrounded of coigües forests, ulmos, tepas, tineos and olivillos forests moreover the Osorno volcano, Puntiagudo volcano and Tronador volcano. In the highlanders are the forests of lenga.

Near of the lake there are mammals like the pudú, pumas, foxes, huillín or river otter and the quique. They are Chilean species of marsupials as the trompuda weasel and monito del monte. The most important  birds are the huala, quetro duck, correntino duck, kingfisher, traro, small picaflor, black carpintero, caiquén, common tagua and eagles


Osorno Volcano Ski Center

The ski center is located to 1.672 meters of the Osorno volcano, into de Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park and distant to 62 kilometers of Puerto Varas.

 

From the top of the volcano you can appreciate the basin of the Llanquihue Lake, the Calbuco volcano and a part of the Petrohué River.

It has twelve runs of different grades: easy, medium, difficult and expert. It has two ski lifts that allow you arrive until the 1.672 meters; there are a ski school, snowboard and snowbus.

You can trek at the foot of the Andes, where there is a ski shop, first-aids kits and cafeteria. There are also Entel and Smartcom wireless phones. “It is open during year". At slow ski time, there are another kind of activities: outings, trekking, “tyrolese”, climbing, etc

Las Cascadas

It is a village with 700 habitants located at the riverside of the Llanquihue Lake, at foot of the Osorno volcano. There are vacation houses, beaches, camping zone. Moreover, there are daily buses to Osorno city.

Perez Rosales bordering line

This bordering line is 120 Km. of Puerto Varas, running across Ruta 5 to Ensenada. There are 16 Km. to Todos los Santos Lake. You can practice rafting to 50 Km. of Todos los Santos Lake. There are 26 km. from Peulla to the bordering line. You can go to Argentina by Puerto Frías, on the west of the Nahuel Huapi Lake.

Río Puelo Bordering Line

From Puerto Varas you will be able to come closer to Puelo by the road that connects Ensenada and Cochamó. From there it is possible the access to El Paso by footpaths, fluvial and lacustrine rafting.

 

By El paso you can go to Argentina. You have to walk by its northern coast to find the village Puelo Lake. By this route you can access to E l Bolsón.

Peulla

It is a small village that has lodging services, feeding, customs office, international police (INTERPOL) and first-aids center. En this place it is possible to appreciate an abundant vegetation and waterfalls.

 

From here you can hike to beautiful places like Pangue House, Peula River, Brazo del Río Esperanza and Cayutúe Lake.

From Peulla you go to Puerto frías by car, where you find the customers office to enter to Argentina.

You are changed in a boat to arrive to Puerto Alegre, place connected by car with Puerto Blest. It is a beautiful place located on near of the Nahuel-Huapi Lake. When you transfer the boat you can arrive to Puerto Pañuelo o Playa Bonita, which are near of San Carlos de Bariloche. This bordering line is one of the most beautiful and tourist of the Andes.

Velo de la Novia Waterfall

The Velo de la Novia Waterfall is located onthe Peulla area to 76 km. of the northwest of Puerto Varas. It is one of the meaning focuses of the zone, which is surrounded of a leafy vegetation. You can access to this waterfall by a footpath of 250 mts.

 

“It is said that if the lovers drink three sips of the water of The Velo de la Novia Waterfall faithfully and hopefully, they will get marriage”.