Chile Travel Blogs - Page 2

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…

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 …

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…

We arrived safely at our Hostel in Arica.  Our first impressions of the Jardin Del Sol was that it was a bit like the rooms out of the hit BBC "comedy" Hi-Di-Hi, but it is fine!  Our first impressions of Arica are a bit like a cross between Torquay and Porthcawl - a bit of a scruffy seasi…

So I woke up that day at a very early hour, and drove up Ranu Kau to check the sunrise. Killin'! On my way down, I decided I felt like meeting new people, so I drove to Aku Aku, and signed in for a day tour of the island. On paper it did not sound that exciting, since some months before I'd alread…

Hiya all, Well here i am in Santiago, smog capital of Chile. The smog is so thick you can only really see about 5 blocks. Santiago is right next to the Andes mountains to the west, (which you can just make out some of the top outline of it in the above photo, if you are lucky) and has another s…

Hi everyone, glad to see that people have been reading my crap, well we have had an up and down last couple of days.  After bangers bday bash everyone, except I was really hung over and didnt do much, corey is now known as the sleeping dead he sleeps like 17hrs a day amazing!! but jim, moused…

Planes make me happy. Sitting next to an obnoxious, drunken, fat and smelly Australian whose elbows leeched over into my seat was not so happy-making, but as I slept solidly through most of the flight, it wasn´t too bad, really. Flying through a sunrise was spectacular - it reminded me off my room…

One of the trips that John had suggested included a drive down to the south east, past Puerto Montt, down to one of the more wild areas. So off we set in the morning for a little off road adventure again.   Getting to Puerto Montt was pretty easy. I understand that PM is the fastest growing …

From La paz to Arica   We had to catch our plane again from Lima in three weeks time and there was so much left to see in Peru that we slowly had to make our way back. I desperately wanted to continue southeast into Bolivia but it will have to wait for another time. So basically we …

---Work in progress--- Three week trip. Places visited: Bolivia: Santa Cruz, Camiri, Entre Rios, Tarija, Tupiza, Uyuni, Villamar. Chile: San Pedro de Atacama, La Serena, Santiago. Easter Island

If I were a religious man I'd say 50 hail Marys or something similarly respectful to the big man/woman/being of non-specific gender in the sky for the four days of close to flawless walking weather we received. I'm not though so I'll just say "Ta!" to Ma Nature instead. There were two light periods…

This time around, I got to see so many amazing places and meet so many amazing people. Yes, that all sounds cliche, but isn't that why we travel? All I know is, as much stuff as I saw this time (my second time) I still have not had a chance to see all that Chile has to offer. It is an amazing land …

My first taste of South America and I have had such a good time in Santiago even though I wish my Spanish was so much better. The first day we arrived on Monday went on for about 40 hours as we crossed the international date line and we went back in time. I still don´t think my body has fully got…