Destination: Chile

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From salty desert top to glacier-crowded bottom, Chile is a gobsmacking reminder of nature's beauty and power. This narrow trickle of a country is jammed with enough geysers, mountains, beaches, forests and volcanoes to keep adventure nuts slavering for a lifetime. Travelers are mostly drawn to this string-bean country because of its spectacular Pacific coastline and Andean highlands, as well as the adventure sports on offer. But if you're here for more than that, then Chile will have gastronomes going gaga over its good food and cracking wines.


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The crew.: by jacques360, Views[14]
 
Me and Maria Belen...my spanish teacher from Santiago.: by jacques360, Views[18]
 
Sleeping beauty Maria Paz...
and Waking Ugly Joe (the celtic fan): by jacques360, Views[21]
 
My spanish is improving..look at the way I can captivate a listener.: by jacques360, Views[21]
 
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Easter Island

By stowaway | Comments [12] | Views [1669] | Tue, 9 May 2006

Well if you can land the space shuttle on the runway here, it must have pretty good brakes! Running from one side of the narrowest part of the almost triangular Easter island, the airport is wedged between 2 volcanoes at its sides and the sea at each ... Read more >

Border crossing Chile-Argentina

Thu, 3 Jul 2008 | By strategy | Views [0]

No man’s land: the area between the border of two countries that belongs to neither country. In some places it is called the duty-free zone. In other places it is a wretched, run down death trap.   This particular land between lands ... Read more >

We´re here already?

Thu, 3 Jul 2008 | By strategy | Views [0]

It’s a sentimental time for us. When we began this journey, we didn’t even know if we’d make it past Tijuana.   But here we are now, about to cross the border and into Argentina.   And when we cross, we will enter a different phase of the journey.... Read more >

Here´s a good idea

Thu, 3 Jul 2008 | By strategy | Views [0]

Chile is a nice, easy country to travel through with lots of supermarkets.   If you are wanting a nice adventure without too much trouble, in a safe environment that is much like home, but different in enough ways to make it interesting, here’s ... Read more >

The Island of Chiloe

Thu, 3 Jul 2008 | By strategy | Views [0]

This is the furthest south we’ve ever been and today is the closest we’ve come to the end of the journey.

The red blanket

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 | By strategy | Views [0]

The woman simply would not barter.   I tried every trick in the book; smiling, frowning, pretending to walk away. Nothing worked.   She scoffed at my first offer. She growled at my second.     “Last year, yes you could have your price.” ... Read more >

Want to go urban camping with us?

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 | By strategy | Views [0]

“Well, those poor people have no idea what they’re missing,” Dom says happily, glancing out the window toward the fancy Mexican restaurant across the street. “I’ll bet there’s nothing in that restaurant that tastes as good as this.” We are sitting ... Read more >

Want to go camping with us?

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 | By strategy | Views [0]

We have spent the last 5 nights in 5 different campgrounds.   Chile has a thriving camping culture, so there are campgrounds everywhere. However, it’s winter, so there is actually no one camping. The showers have all been turned off, and the fire ... Read more >

Chapter Six...no Pics...

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 | By jacques360 | Views [28]

June 22, Tried to mess with my camera the other day, did mess with it...and ended up erasing all my pics... ¡Qué Fomé!...what a drag-bummer-that suck´s-boring-etc... It´s Saturday afternoon, the weather is nice, and I have not worked at all this week ... Read more >

Leaving Oz

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 | By entertainers | Views [54] | Comments [2]

LEAVING OZ It was time to say our farewell with Oz. Had a wild leaving party for The Goochenator the week before we left. Our last week MT received sad news that Fr Billy (granduncle) passed away, so emotions were running high and it was a very sad time ... Read more >

LA ÚLTIMA DE CAROLA

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 | By nortina | Views [55] | Comments [7]

Jueves 5 de junio. 16:30 horas. Temperatura: no sé. Pero me acuerdo que no hacía mucho frío. Salí de mi casa creyendo que iba con suficiente tiempo para llegar puntualmente al dentista. La vez anterior el tiempo me sobró, así que creí que en esta ... Read more >

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A hangover in the desert is deadly (i think this might be a traditional atacameno burial style - in a giant, ceramic pot, before the Spanish made everyone lie down when they die)

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