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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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By stowaway | Comments [12] | Views [2487] | 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 >
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 | By franzi_tina | Views [51] | Comments [2]
Von der Salzwueste ging es direkt weiter in die Atacama-Wueste - die trockenste Wueste der Welt (auch wenn man das auf den Bildern nicht wirklich sieht). Hier war es jedenfalls nach den kalten Naechten in der Salzwueste richtig schoen warm. Deshalb kuehlten ... Read more >
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [3]
Costs pp: bus from Santiago 3100p It took about 2 hours to get to Valparaiso and we had no problem finding our 'couch' Dan who was very welcoming and gave us his own room at his pad. There were 2 other couchsurfers there also, from USA, they were ... Read more >
Wed, 21 Oct 2009 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [24]
Costs pp: Cama bus from Temuco 17,200 We are back in Santiago and staying with our friends Pamela and Christian again. It's lovely to be here, we both like Santiago except for the pollution which gives us both headaches, and we really enjoy being ... Read more >
Tue, 20 Oct 2009 | By mcorak | Views [29]
10/19/2009 2:07 PM (10:07 AM) Hoy es lunes y es mi día primero de trabajo . I arrived at the pool at 9:00 am as instructed and vacuumed the pool. Gabriel, the pool guy, only speaks Spanish and I’m his little helper and I only speak English.... Read more >
Tags: home, work
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 | By baba | Views [104] | Comments [1]
Nach nur drei Tagen auf dem Bike goenne ich mir einen Tag Pause und verbringe den Tag gemuetlich mit einem ausfuehrlichen Fruehstueck, gutem Essen, Sandboarding und einem Ausflug in's Valle de la Luna. Vermutlich der letzte Tag an dem ich noch etwas ... Read more >
Tags: sandboarding
Sun, 18 Oct 2009 | By baba | Views [77]
Dass die Route als nicht ganz so einfach bezeichnet wird, darf ich in den ersten Tagen bereits erfahren. Doch bis ich mich in Calama auf's Rad setze, habe ich bereits ein Intermezzo mit der Polizei am Flughafen in Zuerich und eine wilde Taxifahrt in ... Read more >
Tags: calama, el tatio, san pedro de atacama
Sun, 18 Oct 2009 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [34]
Costs: Matrimonial room with ensuite at a hospedaje near the corner of General MacKenna & Lautaro 11,000. We were given a lift up to Temuco driving up from Pto Montt in the afternoon with Tony and Patricia arriving in the early evening and found ... Read more >
Sat, 17 Oct 2009 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [25]
Costs pp: Ferry from Chaiten to Puerto Montt 20,500 6pm to 6am on the Pincoya. We were allowed onboard the ferry around 4pm and they stowed our packs in a hold near the vehicle entrance. The Pincoya is primarily a vehicle ferry with an area for passengers ... Read more >
Fri, 16 Oct 2009 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [30]
Cost pp: bus La Junta to Chaiten 7500 Our bus to Chaiten left at 8am and was a van. It was still misty with a very early morning feel when we got up and went searching for the bus office. There were 3 others on the journey and more we picked up on ... Read more >
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [33]
Costs pp: Hospedaje 5,000, in a white house with no name. All the other places visited were 10,000pp regardless of how good or bad but this white house had lovely people and good beds. For 1,000 extra you could have breakfast. There were no buses ... Read more >
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [25]
Costs pp: Coyhaique to Puerto Cisnes 6,000p It was still really cold when leaving Coyhaique but not snowing at least. The trip was scenic and especially the road down to Puerto Cisnes and coming into the bay there. The bus driver took all the people ... Read more >
Sat, 10 Oct 2009 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [31]
Costs pp: Minivan Rio Tranquilo to Coyhaique 6,000p On our arrival we phoned Javier our 'couch' and met him in the Plaza Principal which is an unusual hexagonal shape. The day was sunny but very cold especially in the wind. Javier took us to his flat, ... Read more >
Fri, 9 Oct 2009 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [34]
Costs pp: Bus Perito Moreno to Chile Chico Arg-35p, minivan to Rio Tranquilo Chl-10,000p, Hospedaje Darka 6,000p (no b/fast and after bargaining). The road from PM was more and more interesting the closer we got to Chile. No problems at the border altho ... Read more >
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [45]
Costs pp: bus to Puerto Natales 5,000p, room at Hospedaje Knudsen (not recommended) 10,000 for 2 ppl double bed, tv, breakfast and one very slow internet connection. Return bus fare to Torres del Paine 15,000p or 8,000p one way, entry to the park 15,000p, ... Read more >
Wed, 30 Sep 2009 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [40]
Costs pp: bus Ushuaia to Punta Arenas (to be added later...) The trip again was fairly boring, on the strait we saw some of the black and white dolphins swimming right next to the ferry so that was cool. We were lucky enough to couchsurf in Punta Arenas ... Read more >
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