Valdivia Travel Blogs

After a 8 hour bus trip to Valdivia, we instantly felt the warmer climate as we stepped-off the bus - it was a bit nippy at Puerta Varas and Chiloe! Valdivia is a pleasant town, although much of the classic colonial architecture was destroyed in the 1960 earthquake (we have been to so many places …

ANDREI - Our taste of the rain in Pucon was merely an introduction.  We rolled into Valdivia, on the Chilean coastlands, in the late afternoon on Saturday 10th June with high hopes.  A dry welcome, but we were roused from our sleep at Hostel Totem by the thunderous rain on the corrugated …

I have changed my blog so that it now incorporates my full South American adventure!

Am heading to this port-town on Monday 5th, which is exactly when I hoped to be arriving there according to my original schedule.  Will have missed out a couple of places along the way though!

Went for a quick walk this morning around the town of Pucon, before heading off on the Pachamama bus to Valdivia for our next night´s stop.  The drive through the hills was lovely, even had a bit of rain, which is a novelty for us!  We drove over a hill which belongs to the local Mapuche…

I arrived in Valdivia at the lovely hour of 4 am. I sat in the bus terminal until 7 because it was raining, and I didn't feel like wandering in the dark and rain to find a hostel or hotel that was open. At 7 I left the terminal and started walking around. After about an hour of wandering in a town …

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

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