Destination: Chile

Day 5 - Hillside trains in Valapariso

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 | By lani | Views [1230] | Comments [3]

Hola everyone! Today has been another great day in the port of Valparaiso. We had a great experiene for dinner last night - after wandering the cobblestone streets of our local area we stumbled upon a wonderful place called the "Colour Cafe."... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing

Days 3 & 4 - Valparaiso

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 | By lani | Views [1088] | Comments [1]

Hola amigos! We have arrived in the coastal town of Valparaiso which is absolutely beautiful. We were initally on the "wrong side" of town in a hostel called El YoYo (i nicknamed it El Crappo) which wasnt the best. It was more of an inlet ... Read more >

Tags: Food & eating

Day 2 - Sin Gas in Santiatgo

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 | By lani | Views [926]

Hi everyone Its now 5pm here and Ang & i have had a pretty good day. We started early by catching the metro into the city and started exploring. Santiago central is one massive mall that runs down the main street, lined with shops like mobile phone ... Read more >

Tags: Shopping

Day 1 - Santiago

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 | By lani | Views [1065] | Comments [1]

Hi everyone Well - we've now had a bit of time to settle down & found a way to access the 3 essentials - money (Chilean pesos), bottled water & food. We are still working on getting a calling card / mobile phone solution sorted out, but until ... Read more >

Tags: Airports

Gallery: Chile

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | By lou | Photo Gallery

Walking, heavy packs and flavoured rice

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 | By chrisandrosie | Views [469]

Arrived in Puerto Natales and found a good place to live with a really helpful guy who also rented out equipment...equipment for doing a multi-day trek...ooh scary stuff. So the next day we got our gear together and booked all the bus tickets ... Read more >

Tags: The Great Outdoors

Christmas and New Years

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 | By chrisandrosie | Views [473]

Arrived in Santiago on Christmas Eve after travelling for about 18 hours so pretty tired. After wandering around Bella Vista for the third time we thought everything was going to be closed but the supermarket was open. Yay! We ended up buying bread and ... Read more >

Tags: Misadventures

Valparaiso

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 | By coreynw | Views [614]

So I just posted photos from Valpo, but I dont know how to include captions on any of them so youll have to just guess at what youre seeing. Most of the pictures are from our day on the beach, then up in the hills above the city where some of the nice ... Read more >

Tags: Beaches & sunshine

Gallery: Valparaiso

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 | By coreynw | Photo Gallery

Gallery: La Serena

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 | By coreynw | Photo Gallery

Beach Bum

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 | By coreynw | Views [560]

Its hard to leave the beach. I made it away from La Serena, but only to come to another cool beach town. Now Im in Valparaiso and its hard to leave here too. Ive already extended my trip an extra day. Valparaiso is a pretty city, and Vina del Mar, its ... Read more >

Tags: Beaches & sunshine

Made it to Chile

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 | By coreynw | Views [573]

Since my last entry, I have spent thirty six hours in buses. My butt is tired. Had a really nice bus from Nazca to Tacna, very relaxing twelve hour ride in the equivalent of first class. Arrived in late morning, went immediately from the bus to a colectivo ... Read more >

Tags: Beaches & sunshine

Chile and Peru

Wed, 6 Dec 2006 | By chrisandrosie | Views [572]

Arrived in Santiago very tired and nervous about everything. Spent ages waiting at the luggage carousel only to find out that we were waiting at the wrong one! There were our bags ready to steal...ah well. Booked a hotel from the airport probably a bit ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

some like it hot; i like it CHILEd

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 | By yu-en-me | Views [1191]

today was the chilean 'fiesta patria', or patriot day for chile, marking the start of the independence process back in 1810. i'm getting into the festive mood, and love seeing the little flags on cars as they fly down the seemingly speed-limitless ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

Gallery: Over the Andes to Chile

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 | By willlou | Photo Gallery