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CHILE | Tue, 6 May 2014 | By larasumera | Views [480]
May 6, 2014
Day 1 – We probably went to bed around 1:30, and I work up at 7:15 this morning. We're 3 hours ahead of California. Our team went to El Faro this morning, a church/school building on which we are doing renovations. It is the ... Read more >
Tags: chile, el faro, maipu, santiago
CHILE | Sun, 8 Sep 2013 | By carolinelawrence | Views [355]
Door to door? I think it worked out to be around 36 hours. Lots of fun! Flights went pretty smoothly. Flying into Santiago was the first time it sunk in that I was on my own in South America! It was a mixture of excitement and fear. Flying into Santiago:... Read more >
Tags: lima, long flights, santiago
CHILE | Sat, 19 Jan 2013 | By zita_whalley | Views [432]
The most valuable skill to have to when working this particular set of puppets is the ability to talk yourself down from the brink of panic attack in a claustrophobic space while you’re sweating like a rapist, putting your body through a sustained ... Read more >
Tags: latino hospitality, santiago, snuff puppets, teatre a mil festival
CHILE | Wed, 14 Dec 2011 | By sally-annephillips | Views [964]
I’m back! – With an over-packed suitcase and poor Spanish grammar, here I am. And I’m loving it! Before I came, I deliberately played down the excitement to myself – I worked up until a few days before I left and purposely didn’t organise too many ... Read more >
Tags: chile, santiago, south america, travel
CHILE | Sat, 16 Jul 2011 | By rachelina | Views [2423]
Saying hello in Chile can sometimes descend into farcialness. Although a seemingly simple cultural concept, my month and a bit in Chile has made me realise how difficult it can be. Like many other places in the world (sometimes it feels like New Zealand ... Read more >
Tags: chile, cultural customs, kissing, santiago
CHILE | Sat, 25 Jun 2011 | By rachelina | Views [1905]
Observation One: It must be difficult to be a newly single person in Santiago. (No, I didn't take these photos. Even I, photo taker extreme, draw the line at taking photos of strangers in intimate positions)
With my reluctant ... Read more >
Tags: chile, plans, santiago
CHILE | Wed, 15 Jun 2011 | By rachelina | Views [1112]
HOLA FROM CHILE! I've been here for 5 or so days now, and so far am super enjoying it. One of my very good friends from Texas, Katie, moved to Santiago a year ago after graduating from college, and has spent the last year working ... Read more >
Tags: bolivian buses, chile, santiago, spanish
CHILE | Wed, 20 Apr 2011 | By ejpredny | Views [2030]
Brilliant yellow diamond sparkling of golden promises, Santiago huddles in the shadowed embrace of the strong and silent Andes. Farther and farther she fades back into darkness as the plane so easily takes me away from my dreams and back towards reality.... Read more >
Tags: chile, dance, emily predny, pablo neruda, predny, santiago
USA | Sat, 26 Mar 2011 | By ejpredny | Views [544]
Travel dust shakes itself from the bottom of my well-worn backpack. The cats begin alternately fighting and following my every move around the apartment; they know from experience that they won't see me for an indefinite amount of time. My brother used ... Read more >
Tags: chile, dream, emily predny, predny, santiago
CHILE | Tue, 14 Dec 2010 | By sobrea | Views [1672]
So today I will write to you for as long as my battery
permits, because at our campsite next to the river there is no power outlet!
Its almost 11am the morning after our first night of camping in the Latin
American adventure…and man, ... Read more >
Tags: camping, chile, iquique, lake titicaca, peru, pino, san pedro de atacama, sand boarding, santiago, valley of the moon
CHILE | Tue, 9 Mar 2010 | By true-claims-stories | Views [3409]
While I was in Santiago I had severe abdominal pains that lasted for several agonizing hours. Unable to walk unaided, I was advised by the emergency services to take a taxi back to Vina del Mar and visit a doctor as soon as possible. After two days ... Read more >
Tags: chile, kidney stones, santiago, true claims
CHILE | Sat, 30 Jan 2010 | By coogie86 | Views [376]
Well... What a start to the trip. I realized as we entered the Port Tunnel that my passport was sitting in the scanner in G's house. Thankfully, due to some quick thinking and some fast driving {Thanks T!} we somehow managed to get back out to Blackrock ... Read more >
Tags: cheap beer, passport problems, santiago
CHILE | Tue, 18 Aug 2009 | By thebigtrip | Views [1228]
Arica So after a few exciting days in Huacachina we got yet another overnight bus to the border town of Tacna, Peru. When we got off the bus we had two options for crossing the border into Chile , wait four hours and get the train to Arica, ... Read more >
Tags: arica, chile, iquique, paraglding, santiago
CHILE | Fri, 24 Apr 2009 | By globalgirljen | Views [1140]
Since mid April, after the Volcano trek in Pucon, we took a bus over the Andes to Santiago to continue our visit in Chile. After a fantastic adventure through Patagonia, Santiago (any big city) was set up to have a hard time impressing us. But McLure ... Read more >
Tags: chile, santiago, valparaiso
CHILE | Fri, 13 Feb 2009 | By steffen_graz | Views [1893] | Comments [10]
Ein ganz sonniges Grüsschen ins winterliche Deutschland aus Santiago der Hauptstadt Chiles. Nach einer 11 stündigen Busfahrt von Pucón nach Santiago, bin ich erstmal ganz verwundert gewesen, denn das Busterminal, an welchem ich angekommen bin, musste ... Read more >
Tags: santiago
CHILE | Fri, 23 Jan 2009 | By bec-simon | Views [946]
Ok, so our trip to Santiago in Chile didn't start as smoothly as we'd hoped. Missing a flight from Auckland to Santiago was a pretty stressful experience (don't ask us about it yet, when we get back in twelve months we might be able to laugh about it!!), ... Read more >
Tags: chile, santiago
CHILE | Sun, 7 Sep 2008 | By lopes_family | Views [418]
Arrived 25 August after a long and tiring flight. Great view of the Cordilleras as we came into land. Spent the afternoon getting over jet lag and exploring the city. Found it difficult to communicate due to our limited Latin American Spanish. Next day ... Read more >
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CHILE | Sat, 6 May 2006 | By stowaway | Views [6455] | 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: chile, on the road, santiago, smog