Destination: Chile
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Mon, 29 Jan 2007 | By lani | Views [4162] | Comments [2]
Hi everyone Today we have been exploring the sites of one of the most beautiful areas within Santiago - Santa Lucia. We started the day be visiting Indigenous Chilean markets & then to the Cerro Santa Lucia. Its pretty much the biggest thing ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Tue, 9 May 2006 | By stowaway | Views [2518] | Comments [12]
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 >
Tags: adventures, easter island, moai, rapa nui, stowaway, chile, volcanoes, rano kau, space shuttle, motorscooter
Sat, 6 May 2006 | By stowaway | Views [2300] | Comments [7]
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, if you ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, chile, santiago, smog
Sun, 14 May 2006 | By stowaway | Views [2059] | Comments [3]
The sun is out today, after another night of torrential rain. Ive been visiting the local markets & doing some souvineer shopping. Pretty much every single building sells tourist things of one shape or another. Hanga Roa is a small, sleepy town ... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing, easter island, moai, chile
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 | By lani | Views [2037]
This restaurant, inspired by the book "Like Water for Chocolate" recreates a colourful Mexican ranch, with wrought iron railings on the balconies and plenty of wood, stone and exposed bricks to add to the mood. The solid wood tables, musical ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Wed, 31 Jan 2007 | By lani | Views [1919] | Comments [5]
Well - we've now had 2 whole weeks here in Chile and have had quite an experience in our travels. There are so many things we have seen, heard, tried and photographed that its difficult to come up with a round up of our experiences (on our last night), ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Sat, 27 Jan 2007 | By lani | Views [1416] | Comments [2]
Hola Amigos & Amigas! Ang & I enjoyed our last few days in La Serena by visiting the local Archaeological museum to take in some Chilean history. After trying to buy tickets for 5 minutes we realised that on the weekends that entry is free (hey ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Tue, 23 Jan 2007 | By lani | Views [1381] | Comments [1]
Today we really started to feel like we were on holidays as we finally hit the beach! We travelled with our new buddies (Liz from Holland & Adrian from Birmingham) from Valparaiso to the neighbouring town of Viña which is like the Gold Coast i guess.... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Wed, 30 May 2007 | By homersmuse | Views [1303] | Comments [1]
My week long trip to Easter Island began with the appropriate apparel: adventure clothes. You know...extra-heavy-duty-gortex hiking boots, fannypacks, cowboy hats, and camoufloge bandanas, all of which feature super-duper-quick-dry technology. My travel ... Read more >
Tags: adventures, easter island, chile, tom jones
Thu, 28 Jun 2007 | By homersmuse | Views [1148] | Comments [4]
I recently had the opportunity to tour Villa Grimaldi, which was once a torture camp during the early years of Pinochet's dictatorship. Our guide, Pedro Matta, was imprisoned and tortured there as a 23 year-old politically active college student. ... Read more >
Tags: politics, chile
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 | By nortina | Views [1086] | Comments [7] | Video
Hoy
comencé a pensar en las ridiculeces que he visto en mi vida y que, en su mayoría,
me han hecho reír.
Una
de las mejores y más recientes es este video (no es el que está aquí puesto), encontrado ni más
ni menos que ... Read more >
Tags: chavo del 8, cantinflas, estupideces
Thu, 25 Jan 2007 | By lani | Views [1017]
La Playa = beach. My feet = burnt to a crisp due to the black sand here which retains heat like nothing else. I reckon we could have cooked lunch on the sand! Today we went to the local beach here in La Serena which is a 30 minute hike from our hostel, ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
Sun, 18 Nov 2007 | By llamalovers | Views [1016] | Comments [4]
OK - so here we are, thousands upon thousands of miles away from home, only hundreds of miles away from Antarctica, our senses dazzled by glaciers, condors, and impecccable Chilean vistas, and dulled by horrific Chilean food. We came down here almost ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
Fri, 26 Jan 2007 | By lani | Views [1010] | Comments [5]
We have enjoyed 3 lovely days here in La Serena, and yesterday we were humbled to hear the story of Maria - the lady that runs the hostel "Casa Maria" where we have been spending our time. Maria was married young and had 2 sons to her husband, ... Read more >
Tags: People
Sat, 1 Nov 2008 | By all04h | Views [909]
The Plaza de Armas is the centre of Santiago and the country, both literally -all distances to the rest of Chile are masured from here -- and symbolically. It was the first public space laid out by Pedro de Valdivia when he founded the city in 1541 ... Read more >
Wed, 24 Jan 2007 | By lani | Views [860] | Comments [2]
The best things Their supermercardos (supermarkets) sell the most amazing array of breads, fresh pastries, cakes & they have 2 whole aisles just for wine. The Chileans sure have their shopping sorted! Everywhere we go, they are playing 1980´s hits ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Sat, 22 Apr 2006 | By ontheroadandoff | Views [844]
CHILE …SURPRISES AT EVERY TURN …Copyright by Geof Prigge geofprigge@yahoo.com.au www.geofprigge.com Pre-historic cacti, seaweed along the rocks, seagulls larger than life, surging swell, fine white sandy beaches…this ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 | By lani | Views [825] | Comments [1]
Hola! Today we explored the "must see" museum in Santiago - Museum of Pre-Columbian Art in Santiago city. It contains a collection of pre-Columbian pieces of different cultural areas selected for their beauty and cultural value; ceramics,
paintings, ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Fri, 16 Nov 2007 | By llamalovers | Views [753] | Comments [3]
I will begin this story with a quote from our blog ¨What´s the Point¨: ...down here, what you see everywhere, are stray dogs. I am the first person to say that you have to help people before you help animals, but this is ridiculous. You see animals ... Read more >
Tags: Work
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 | By entertainers | Views [686] | Comments [2]
While chilling in Chile, our hearts were still in Mendoza... We escaped the Gringo Trail and headed for Pichilemu for some surf and detox. Our days consisted of slideshows, sunbathing and surfing..aaaah bliss. But the surf wasn't up to much, all geared ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
Sun, 1 Jun 2008 | By sarahandphil | Views [669] | Comments [4]
Hi everyone, We got back on our first long distance bus since China on Monday to head up to San Pedro de Atacama in northern Chile on the edge of the Atacama desert. Fortunately the journey was in complete contrast to the last one in China when we ... Read more >
Sun, 28 Jan 2007 | By lani | Views [668]
Our accomodation here in Santiago is just spectacular - we are staying at La Casa Roja in Santiago (the red house). Its a 100 bed packpackers (by far the largest we´ve stayed in) run by 2 Aussies (we havent met them yet). The property is a restored ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 | By augustwilson | Views [661] | Comments [1]
It´s been a while since we updated but rest assured there are plenty of stories to tell this time!! So from Pucon we caught the bus North to Valparasio where a few people had recommeded we visit. Unfortunately this is a party town and we were there ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
Sun, 23 Nov 2008 | By k-lero | Views [649] | Comments [8]
Es un auténtico
gustazo entrar aquí y ver todos vuestros comentarios, eso sube la moral a
cualquiera!
Al final sí llegué
a San Pedro de Atacama, un día más tarde por el incidente de la cartera, pero
llegué.
San Pedro es ... Read more >
Tags: atacama, san pedro, desert, chile
Mon, 17 Dec 2007 | By markbrul | Views [646] | Comments [4] | Video
Thanks to Brad I can show you the movies now. Another movie can be found on YouTube as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osXDt1Mhjn8 Hola amigos, Wauw, wat is voetbal hier enerverend. Vandaag was de wedstrijd Colo Colo tegen ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
