Chile Travel Blogs

AA 7738 (LA 997), Departs SCL 9:45 AM, Arrives PUQ 1:00 PM (Scheduled) The flight to Santiago headed south from Miami over Cuba, through the Caribbean, then across Panama.  The flight stayed over the Pacific Ocean for the most part, skirting Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru, before arriving in Chi…

Today is Monday and I finally had the chance to tour over Santiago. My friend's stepmother offered to show me around, I thought it was great. I only had three hours to tour downtown Santiago, so it's better to go with someone who knows the place. We first went to Cerro Santa Lucía, a hill in …

So happy to be at home even though it is only for a week before I meet my friend in Santiago. Feel much safer now and good chance to relax after my last few days spent in Ecuador. Also my friend Juan from Santiago came to visit for a few days so we can go out partying. To top it all Chile win in …

Flying with Copa air to Panama, for a quick stop over and change of aircraft. Then heading onwards to Santiago. Arriving late at night there is a hassle and a lot of fuss from people trying to get your business on giving you a trip to the hotel.. we (I) was almost tricked to go on a “non registe…

I'm back in Concepción and packing my bags to go home. Thanks for following my travels, and tune in for my next adventure (hopefully it'll be soon!).

My parents left on Tuesday night. The last few days with them were much more enjoyable than the first few... mainly because we weren't dealing with replacing stolen goods. We made a few trips to places near the city--but OUTSIDE of the city, so clean air. It's quite a commodity here. I was sad to s…

I decided to take this trip with my mother as she really wanted to see the Moai and so did I!! We traveled from Miami to Sanitiago, had a quick overnight (so as not to be run to ragged) and then on to Easter Islans the next day. Arrival in Easter Island was great! The driver from the hote…

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!This was day of sadness for me.  this is the last night on the MV FRAM. This was another fantastic voyage. This is my second time using this company. I will be using this company again when I travel to Greenland and Spitsbergen. Our group was the first group to ta…

New day, same island. What's next? Most of the most famous Ahus of the island lie next to the route I took yesterday, the east side of the island. So today I decided to explore the west side of the island. Not on the bike as roads on that side of the island are not so good as the road yesterday. A …

This place was amazing. Unlike any place I've ever seen before. A short drive from San Pedro de Atacama...Chris and I decided to visit Laguna Chaxa on our way back from San Pedro, on the way back to Iquique. Once again- that fucking travel book that I had, made this place sound like something compl…

Beautiful city with a center copied from the European cities. Most expensive city in South America :) But it also offers a lot.. It's a modern city and has wonderful transportation system. People are also similar to Europe, no south american spirit :(( You can find wonderful Chilean wines here for a really good price and..most important of all.. Santiago is a Love City :)) You can find couples kissing eachother on the streets, bars, parks, buses, in the lines, on the monuments, everywhere :))

I woke up this morning depressed. I was dehydrated and hungry, and I had no cash, or a means to get cash.  I dreaded the day ahead of battling banks, ticket offices, airlines, electronics store salesmen, etc to get my trip back in order.  It got worse when I stumbled down to th…

This was a day at sea with the main attraction being Cape Horn, which were scheduled to reach about 5:00 PM. We were just waking at about 8:45 when Gus called and invited us to join them and Frank & Pat for breakfast in the Donatello at 9:00. We hustled on down to some pretty lousy eggs benedic…

Not long after leaving Arequipa the road descends quickly and you are soon in the middle of a landscape similar to what Mars must look like. There are large mountains covered in sand with red rocks protruding and just vast stretches of nothingness. The road proceeds south without many signs of civi…

I only had a vague memory of seeing pictures of Buenos Aires being overcast with a yellowy cloud of ash. I saw it on TV on a day in early May 2008. But after that I totally forgot about that again. It didn´t seem important. That was until I arrived in Villa Cerro Castillo in the middle of the Carr…