Castro Travel Blogs

a map and some photos of my slightly unplanned trip around the world. The map outlines the general route I took, not counting the backtracking and double visits. Currently I am scanning some photos of this trip, but be patient, there are a lot of them! Argentina - Chile - Easter Island - French Polynesia - New Zealand - Australia - Bali - Hong Kong - Macau - Singapore

A bit of a chill out day (in more than one way) around Castro. The weather has stayed. The odd patch of sun is peeking through though, which has given us enough hope for a bit of a drive and wander around. Glad we did too. The colour of the houses around town and more particularly on the water, is …

The days following our journey on the Navimag were spent on the island of Chiloe, a charming pastoral island on the west coast of Chile. Our first stop was Ancud, a small bright city at the northern tip of the island where we relaxed by the harbour (when we weren´t running around frantically tryin…

yes so not that impressed really with old chiloe, hence being on the internet again. the weather has been shitty for the first time since we went away. pissy annoying rain but still warm enough. we took a bus out to the national park at cucao in the hope of doing some trekking but did barely 1km o…

We arrived at Castro after the bus-barge crossing (that didn´t even require us to leave our seat as we crossed the water to Chiloe).  It didn´t seem like the most attractive of towns - plenty of corrigated metal facias and ugly buildings dominated the style.  We discoverd over the coupl…

Castro is famous for being in the center of the church region of Chiloé and also for the houses on stilts over the water (palafitos). I was immediately disappointed when I arrived to find that the cathedral that is orange and purple in all the photos is now a boring beige color. After taking my tr…