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…

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…

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'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!).

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…

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 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…

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…

I have decided to write a travel blog of my travels around South America. I have never written a blog before so not sure exactly how it will go.  Ill will try my best and keep it up on my way round, although when I’ve written diaries before I’ve never got very far with them. I decided to …

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…

In the air we were approaching the Andes. The captain turned on the camera on the plane's tail and we saw the beautiful mountains with it’s snowy tops clearly. In a few days we’re going to cross these mountains again on land.   Santiago’s environment is rather dry, with …

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. 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 Carretera…

Shawn arrived from vancouver via housten and as expected hit the streets running. He´d gone up the cristobal but couldn´t find his way down and so in typical shawn fashion decided to bush wack his way down. probably leaving a trail of destruction. Anyways it´s good to finally get to meet my tr…

Well, the Drake Passage lived up to its name. We were lucking going south, but not so lucky going north now. I was in the cabin sleeping it off, it was hard to walk around the pitching ship. My husband took the video from the bridge, where the water came all the way to the window of the bridge!The …

KERRY - We had heard from fellow travellers we had met along the way the Santiago was not much of a city and that we would not want to spend a lot of time there as there was not a lot to do. We did like the city though and although there is not a huge amount to do, it was a lot nicer than we expect…