The Best Holiday I've Had

When you ask me about my best holiday ever, I can think of a few, but the one that I look back the most, is the one that happened in the summer of 2016. 

My mom had met my stepdad the year before, and it was the first time the three of us went on vacation together.

That year, we decided to go visit some of my mom’s relatives in Valdivia, but neither wanted to drive that far, neither sit on a bus for like 12 hours, so they decided to book plane tickets. I’d never been on a plane before, so it was really exciting.

The flight was pretty short, and we landed on Valdivia in a cloudy day. We stayed like 4 days with my mom’s relatives, near Niebla, which is a small town in the city. We went to different places each day, like the riverside market, the Kuntsmann beer brewery, a few cultural fairs and the national fail, the Cau-Cau bridge.

After being in Valdivia for around four days, we met with my stepdad’s sister and her husband, which were road tripping all the way from Santiago. They were travelling for a few more weeks, so they invited us to go with them for a few days. 

We started in Valdivia and stopped in a few places, like Frutillar, Puerto Varas, Angelmó, Quemchi, Castro, Chonchi, and Quellón, which is the end of the continental highway, Route 5, that connects Arica with Quellón. We had to take a few boat trips, met really awesome and new places, ate a lot of different foods, and had a really fun time overall.

I'd love to do it again sometime, but to have the experience of doing it backpacking, because these are really beautiful places that are filled with nature and culture.