Chile Travel Blogs

... hands in an auditorium-sized class. And he's ugly. Take that Fidel Sepúlveda.) 5)Social and Historical Perspectives of Chile (Taught by a director of my interchange program. All gringos and program members, but probably the most fun and interesting of my ...

A travel blog entry from Sewell by arichardson
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... built by mining companies in the late '60s with funding from CORFA, a Chilean government entity that helped fund development in Chile for a few decades, especially under the Frei and Allende governments in the 60s and 70s. The pool once formed part of ...

A travel blog entry from San Pedro de Atacama by arichardson
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But our other attempts to experience and appreciate this seemingly uninhabitable ecosystem are met with success....and more salt.   We join a group of people heading out of town to float on the water of these 5 ponds that miraculously appear on ...

A travel blog entry from San Pedro de Atacama by rawhideone
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... clash with my American sentiments and upbringing than whine. That doesn't mean they aren't irritating. I'll list a few. Chile prides itself in being a developed Latin American country, clean and relatively safe. Still, the universities, public offices ...

A travel blog entry from Santiago by arichardson
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I'd like to add an addendum to that last entry, because someone I know made an interesting point. A friend of my father, who is married to an argentine woman, questioned my assertion that Argentines were somehow beyond defining their identity-that they ...

A travel blog entry from Santiago by arichardson
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Wednesday, 7/5/2006 After a fitful night's sleep (it was damned cold), I awoke at 6 a.m. for an all-day tour. I awoke coughing, my chest and lungs stinging, despite the fact that I'd gone to bed in long underwear, a sweater and a warm hat. I'd packed ...

A travel blog entry from San Pedro de Atacama by arichardson
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... the street, even if a stranger... they usually kiss you on the cheek goodbye.  Skin color is lighter in Chile...theoretically there are fewer indigenous people and much more of a Spanish influence genetically.  Chilenos are well dressed, clean... ...

A travel blog entry from Arica by rawhideone
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So I set off from Colina, along a beautiful, quiet road, surrounded by lovelt mountain scenery. This was much more what I came for, I thought, and was quite happy and contented until... yep, it joined a motorway. You think I´m making this up? I got to ...

A travel blog entry from Rio Blanco by nigelball
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... , and only fooled 11 people into coming to the dangerous land down south, where there was little gold. Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile's "liberator" was a bastard child of the governor of Chile, lost every battle he ever fought in, and eventually had to flee ...

A travel blog entry from Santiago by arichardson
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... . And it was certainly strange to re-enter a country that I saw myself in the process of leaving. The prospect of two weeks in Chile after such a successful tour drained me, and as I settled into bed at the hotel, sleep came easily. In truth, I think I ...

A travel blog entry from La Serena by arichardson
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... Chile untill we reach Santiago in the south and the location of our flight to Oz...... after some reseach and realising that Chile was mainly desert in between San Pedro and Santiago we decided to add another stamp to the passort and work south through ...

A travel blog entry from San pedro de atacama by thomaswguy
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For the last few days, I´ve dropped off the face of the earth. My first Chilean family, during my two weeks there, invited four foreign exchange students (not including myself)to live in the house. Before welcoming me into their home, they signed a ...

A travel blog entry from Santiago by arichardson
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... me "Thursday afternoon." My flight out was on Monday morning. I went to an internet cafe, found USAA's toll-free number in Chile online, and then called it from a payphone. The card cancelled, I headed back to the hotel. I wasn't totally moneyless in ...

A travel blog entry from San Pedro de Atacama by arichardson
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So this is the start. I had to almost totally dismantle my bike to fit it in the little box that Iberia provided me with at Heathrow (and charged me a fiver for! But then it did have a picture of a bike on the side, so maybe that´s why). By some miracle, ...

A travel blog entry from Santiago de Chile by nigelball
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Pucon, Chile. Now we're talking. The small city with a population of about 21,000 is probably Chile's most famous adventure travel destination. And rightly so I guess. It got lots of adrenaline activities for the intrepid traveller, like rafting, kayaking, ...

A travel blog entry from Pucon by stevefn
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... la Luna. And then I got lost in the maze of Devil's Gorge around sunset, mountain biking with four extremely friendly guys from Chile (in one blog entry I think I said that I found Chilean people a bit difficult to get in contact with, but after meeting ...

A travel blog entry from San Pedro de Atacama by stevefn
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... plenty of people to chat to..... or just veg out to a movie. Anyways, the pass was fine and so was our arrival into Santiago Chile! We completed another wine tour, this time at a winery called concha y toro, it was not as good as some of the other ...

A travel blog entry from Santiago by thomaswguy
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... our cycling and as it was so cold, kept our pitstops to a minimum! With the favourable wind, we pushed on into Chile where we realised that we had neither obtained the required Argentinian exit stamp, nor remembered to get any Chilean currency! We pushed ...

A travel blog entry from Punta Arenas by patagonia2peru
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Volcano Villarrica, one of the most active volcanos in Chile, dominates the landscape for miles around with its perfectly connical form, snowcapped top, and billowing clouds of gas emanating from the crater. At 2840m its not exactly easy to climb in a day, ...

A travel blog entry from Pucon by rachel_john
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... from one side to the other, perhaps every 10 yards or so, which went on for mile after mile. This surprised us for Chile is a prosperous country in South America; but of course this is earthquake country. You might have heard about the earthquake of 13th ...

A travel blog entry from Arica by patagonia2peru
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... Top 5. Ok - so I really don't know much about Chile. And I'm here for 10 days. So what do I know about Chile? The history? Nada. Culture and traditional? Pocito. Language? Average. I have been learning however. Here are the top 5 random things ...

A travel blog entry from Chiloe by marktjhung
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... driver, a chubby, jovial San Pedro Indian handed me a book on the region's history, printed and compiled by CODELCO, Chile's national copper company, while Emilio looked for the other five people who'd promised to come sandboarding that day. Emilio is a ...

A travel blog entry from San Pedro de Atacama by arichardson
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... 'Hostels for Backpackers in Chile' (it seems that lonely Planet is a lost cause as far as helping the traveller find good accomodation in Chile) and we ask a local man where it is. He kneels down in the dusty road and sketches a map and so helps us head ...

A travel blog entry from San Pedro de Atacama by rachel_john
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... with tightly cramped seats, bumpy roads, and inadequate meal stops. Getting from Ushuaia in Argentina to nearby Puerto Williams in Chile is also a difficult connection to make, and tourists are usually ripped off to the tune of USD$100 for the short boat ...

A travel blog entry from Punta Arenas by rachel_john
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... in the distance across the lake of blue. The view confirms the feeling that we are in a geographically different part of Chile, the Lake District. After an abortive attempt to stay at a German operated backbapckers (where it seemed really cramped and ...

A travel blog entry from Puerto Varas by rachel_john
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Chile is a bit like Switzerland - pretty wooden chalets, dense forests, lakes and mountains. Oh, and expensive. But I bet the Swiss officials don't ask personal questions on arrival at the border, like their Chilean colleagues do. Filling out the usual ...

A travel blog entry from San Pedro de Atacama by helene
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... 3 hours later than expected and after what seems like days of travelling on the bus I feel about 3 years older. Compared to Chile Chico, Coyhaique feels like a big city. In the centre is a strange pentagon shaped plaza from which a series of roads ...

A travel blog entry from Coyhaique by rachel_john
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... . And what do you think, might possibly be the connection between Monreith and the Lake District (also known as La Araucania) in Chile? Well, the connection I make is the Monkey Puzzle tree or the Araucaria tree. In Monreith estate, just a mile or two ...

A travel blog entry from Villarrica by rachel_john
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... silver jug. After stirring for a while I sip the delicious velvety perfection, and think lots of nice thoughts about Chile and Valdivia. Rachel's capuccino is also delicous and differs from the usual European formula because it has cream instead of milk. ...

A travel blog entry from Valdivia by rachel_john
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To the casual observer, the facilities at Chile´s most elite universities vary widely in quality. And to a certain degree they do. One week and several classes in, though, the distinctions are beginning to blur, and what one campus lacks in techonology or ...

A travel blog entry from Santiago by arichardson
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