The park is relatively small. Less than 4 hours walking altogether. My leg is still crippled for some reason so this looks like my limit. I left my big backpack at entrance gate and went to main viewpoint from where you can see the hanging glacier on top of valley with waterfall coming out of it and from time to time cracking and ice falling siren to valley followed by earthquake kind of sound. Very impressive. Went down the lake to see it from another angle and just had little siesta with couple other people and park guard. I could hardly walk on way back, my body telling me that something wrong with my leg. Feeling tired because of that I decided to amend my future plans little bit. Hitch hiked back to town to accommodate again and decided to go to local thermals next day and postpone my hitchhiking to another day after the thermals. That also suited uncertainty about the buses passing the lakes towards north as somebody told they are not in service due to end of season. Making backup plan for ferry going 3 times a week more realizable.
Next day morning, I had very hard tone to hitchhike to thermals and I basically had to walk 6km there with all the bags. It didn't helped my leg neither but it was doable. Thermals were nice relax on my ways. Little bit pricey fire what they offered, but combination of cold lake and hot whirlpools was amazing. I spent there around 3 hours and decided to hitchhike north as much as I can. Knowing its more than 4 hours by car to El Chaiten left me with small chance at 4pm I could make it there. I got my guest hitchhike quite soon at least back to Puyuhuapi. But then got stuck there more at least hour while out of 5 cars passing, 3 were full and one was police car which didn't stopped me obviously :-) I started to think I will sleep another night in town and maybe get next day bus if it comes. Hitchhiking can be desperate sometimes. In that moment car was leaving village my way and that was my luckiest moment of my hitchhiking. After little spanish which always ashames me, the typical question "where are you from?". People from the car turned out to be Czech people working on embassy in Chile for 3 years and their plan is to reach El Chaiten that day. My luckiest moment. So we talked and stopped at couple places to take pictures or just enjoy Patagonian nature. We drink a beer and so on. We were very fast doing El Chaiten in little over 3 hours thanks to new paved roads at couple of places. I right away took the first accomodation and we set in the restaurant El Volcan next to it. They served beautiful soft and huge beef steak fu8r good price. Another few beers swallowed and Pisco Sour and that was the end of my betty relaxing and lucky day.
The next day I took a fully booked bus to Puerto Month. As before I just blindly sat inside on free seat hoping that somebody won't show off and it clicked. There were couple more people standing on this 9 hours bus hoping for the same. To be fair, more than half of the way is spent on in total 3 ferries or waiting in the harbour for the ferries. The ferries go through nice fjords and are quite spectacular taking me whole day to reach Puerto Montt, my transit city.
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