Hotel Corralco is located in the Malalcahuello National Reserve at the base of Volcano Lonquimay. The Corralco ski centre is also located there. The hotel has 54 rooms which get booked out completely in winter, often by visiting ski teams from the northern hemisphere. The hotel offers many services such…
At the time of writing this blog, Chile is leading the stakes with its vaccination programme. Here in Malalcahuello we hope that the speed of the vaccination continues so that they reach their target of community immunity by the end of June 2021. This will be just in time for…
Volcano Lonquimay is a strata volcano of 2,865 m.a.s.l (9,400 ft) located in Malalcahuello National Reserve in the Araucanía region in the south of Chile. The Reserve contains some of the best examples of Araucaria forest, although much of the park is dominated by the volcano and the rocky andesite…
In Malalcahuello, we are towards the end of the first major outbreak of COVID-19. As always, being human, people are finding ways to pick themselves up and carry on, despite the hard knocks. Being desperate to get out and enjoy the fresh air, powder snow and the wide outdoors, people…
In Malalcahuello, A small rural town close to the ski centre Corralco on Volcano Lonquimay, the owners of local businesses are preparing to receive tourists again, hoping that that will be prior to the end of the ski season of 2020. Chile has been affected badly by the COVID-19 pandemic,…
The central-south of Chile has the best guarantee of finding real snow in good quantity for skiing. In the last couple of years, the ski fields close to the capital, Santiago, have suffered from a lack of snow, apparently global warming taking effect. This year (2020), there is doubt whether…
Conguillío National Park Is located in the central south of Chile, some 148km (92miles) from the city of Temuco towards the Andes Mountains, in the Araucanía region. The region is famous for it´s links with indigenous culture, being the last place of defence against the Spanish colonists by the Pehuenche/Mapuche….
The Ring of Fire Volcano Lonquimay in Chile forms part of what´s called the Ring of Fire in the Pacific Ocean. It´s the most unstable and geologically dynamic region in the world. Chile has 90 potentially active volcanoes of which Lonquimay is definitely one of them, last erupting on christmas…
In 2019 Corralco has returned to offer snowkite equipment to rent and guide. They will also host the annual snowkite festival 29 August- 01 September, where one can mix it with the small but dedicated community in Chile of kiteboarders/snowkiters, led by Ariel Blaschke. For participants of the festival Chile…
It´s clear that the concept of the mountain chalet differs from a cabin or other holiday accommodation built in lower altitudes. The design of a mountain chalet needs to be focussed on resisting the elements, wind, rain, snow and ice. In the Araucanían region of the Andes mountains of Chile…