Our first port was this seaside town of 250,000. It was settled in the late 19th century by German immigrants. It is now a fishing center with no real passenger terminal which meant we “tendered” to shore and our excursions. We had between 1000-2000 passengers to take the 20 minute ride to shore in 4 different tenders which meant it took about 3 hours from start to finish to get everyone ashore. Not good planning. So our excursion was a 90 minute bus ride to Lake Todos
Los Santos and the Petrohue waterfalls it created. Beautiful scenery but not sure it was worth the 3 hour ride on a bus, 3 hour wait and round trip on the tender. The captain and cruise director got an earful all right. His comment was “this is S America. They don’t build nice passenger terminals here. If you demand nice terminals, stay in the Caribbean”.
With that we opened a bottle of wine and forgot about it.
We then had 2 days of sailing thru the fiords' of Chile. Very interesting scenery.
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