The famous Pan-American Highway connects the Americas, from northern Alaska up to southern Chile. While driving, we crossed a "Nameless Bridge" and passed a village called "Nothing Is Worse". Uhm, we decided better not to stop there... ;-) Even so, the Chilean Panamericana is a decent modern highway. You'll get anywhere safe and fast. After leaving Puerto Varas we drove to the very end of the Panamericana: to Chiloé island. The place was recommended to us by many friends. So here we were!
The island is famous for it's fine handicraft, it's numerous wooden churches and for it's colorful pile dwellings. Nonetheless will we remember Chiloé's capital Castro for something very different: dogs!! We were walking along those stilt houses, on a public road very close to Castro's main square, when suddenly a pack of 6-8 dogs came running after us! One got hold of Florian's jeans and ripped it up! Mere chance that we got away and his leg remained unharmed. Nothing happened, but it gave us a real scare. Emergency rabies shots were definetely not part of our holiday plans...
Hungry unneutered dogs are a common sight in Chile, since there is no state authority that cares about them. Plus, Chile remains a Catholic country, and many people feed the strays occasionally. But grown dogs just can't live on bits of leftovers forever. Poor creatures.
The island is famous for it's fine handicraft, it's numerous wooden churches and for it's colorful pile dwellings. Nonetheless will we remember Chiloé's capital Castro for something very different: dogs!! We were walking along those stilt houses, on a public road very close to Castro's main square, when suddenly a pack of 6-8 dogs came running after us! One got hold of Florian's jeans and ripped it up! Mere chance that we got away and his leg remained unharmed. Nothing happened, but it gave us a real scare. Emergency rabies shots were definetely not part of our holiday plans...
Hungry unneutered dogs are a common sight in Chile, since there is no state authority that cares about them. Plus, Chile remains a Catholic country, and many people feed the strays occasionally. But grown dogs just can't live on bits of leftovers forever. Poor creatures.
