Travel Blogs from Ancud, Chile
Ancud
... colony. Just off the shores of Ancud is the only part of our world where Magallanic and the Humboldt penguins meet and nest. My main reason for visiting Ancud was exactly this, and I was fortunate to attent a tour to visit the colony (Sept- March ...
Ancud, autre port de peche...tres humide!
... Ancud dans l'apres midi, ce qui nous laisse le temps de trouver un camping tranquillement. Nous en trouvons un face a la mer. Ancud = autre port de peche avec ses maisons colorees. Diner: araignee de mer et chupe de mariscos (sorte de soupe avec des ...
Ancud - rain and a museum
Ancud We planned on various things in Ancud but it didn't really work out for us. I was interested in going to the museum and I had heard that blue whales also hang around this end of the island so I wanted to find out about that. So I spent a good ...
Chillin' in Chiloe
... more time in the car and went back to the hostel via a few sights in the town of Ancud, including the site where Spain finally surrendered Chile to its revolutionaries. We cooked spaghetti bolognaise at the hostel and drank a couple of bottles ...
auf gehts!
... abgeholt! eine sehr nette familie! mit zwei soehnen mehr! nach der "once" in der kueche wurden wir noch kurz durch ancud gefahren bevor sie uns im zentrum abluden und wir auf eigene faust loszogen! nett aber aeusserst klein! wieder im haus gabs dann ...
ueber chiloe hinaus!
inzwischen warn wir wiedermal im zentrum dieser kleinen stadt und im museum! ebenfalls sehr klein aber fuer 40 cent kann man ja auch nicht die welt erwarten! die anfaenge der besiedlung chiloes wurde hier dokumentiert! ausserdem liegt ein riesen ...
Arriving on Chiloe
... are marvellous views out across the bay . We were followed throughout town by various dogs that roam around the street throughout Chile, thankfully they are reasonably friendly and have not bitten us yet! After our stroll through the town, the local ...
The journey north begins- Quinchao- Quemchi- Ancud
We decided Castro wasn't worth hanging around in so we have headed back up to Ancud via one of the little islands. Very pretty island, akin to Scottish highlands with lots of wildlife and HUGE barnacles. Off geeking today so no great excitement. Just a ...
L'île de Chiloe, une autre Irlande
Toujours vivants et en pleine forme. Le Chili. Un pays magiquement beau que nous avons rejoint depuis quelques jours en passant par la Cordillère des Andes à velo, même pas mal aux jambes :). Pendant la traversée andine, nous sommes restés cois ...
Chiloe: Pinguinos and the start of Patagonia
We left the more cosmopolitan areas of Chile behind to embark on our journey southward. We broke down and rented an expensive Avis car (including the usual surprisingly expensive insurance) so that we could go to Chiloe--an island off of the coast and ...
Aventure Chilotes...
Après notre étape de transit à Punta-Arenas pour prendre l'avion, nous voila retournés un peu plus au Nord au niveau de la Péninsule de Valdès mais côté Pacifique à Puerto-Montt. Arrivés Dimanche soir (le 24/02), à Puerto-Montt, petite ville ...
Rucksacktour mit Jule: Tag4
... das Regenwasser bereits in Sturzbaechen, aber laut den Chiloten ist das normal. Als wir uns heute Nachmittag das Zentrum von Ancud angeschaut haben, gab es sogar einen Tornado. Aber der hinterliess Gott sei Dank keinen groesseren ...
What a minga!
... , which is shellfish and meat cooked over red hot stones between leaves and under turf in a hole dug in the ground. I'd arrived in Ancud on the island of Chiloe 2 days earlier. It's a pleasant seaside town for a wander which transports you back in time, ...
Ancud and the penguins of Puñihuil
... and used to be one of Patagonia's most important defensive points. After a couple of failed attempts to incorporate Ancud into the republic of Chile, the Spanish finally lowered their flag and surrendered in 1826. There's not much left of the old ...
Pto. Montt - Ancud / Isla Chiloè
aus einer tour herraus bleiben wir auf der insel chiloè, von hier aus sehen wir uns pinguine und die insel ...
Der letzte Tag auf Chiloé
... ich die Schiffstour gemacht habe. Es war schoen, fuer einmal bei einer Familie zu Hause zu sein. Sie leben etwas ausserhalb von Ancud in einem wunderschoenen Haus, nur wenige Meter vom Meer weg. Strom gibts nur abends ein paar Stunden ab dem Generator, ...
Rucksacktour mit Jule: Tag5
Heute waren wir im "Museo regional" in Ancud. Das war zwar wen arg klien aber ganz nett....Am Nachmittag wollten wir dann eigentlich einen Spaziergang am Meer machen, Miriam wollte uns begleiten, aber ich glaube sie hatte uns falsch verstanden, denn aus ...
Penguins in Ancud, Chile
Our trip to Ancud, Chile begins at 7:00pm in the evening. We prepare ourselves for our 16hr bus ride from Santiago, Chile to Ancud, in the Chiloe peninsula. We drive until 10:30 pm when the bus stops at a restaurant for people who would like to ...
The Amazing Adventures of Penguin and Robin'
... to find that this was one of the many that had been stolen and canceled, and they were shit out of luck. Suckers! Our ancud hostel could not have treated us better however, and from then on our time in Chiloe became very cheap. They comped our ...
An amble around Ancud
... have been part of the world hertitage site for over 10 years and many are currently undergoing much needed restoration. Ancud was a base of resistance against the Chilean independence movement in the early 1800's. The Spanish loyalists helped ...
The sunsets of Ancud, Chiloe
... detour to Chiloe, its a great place to chill out (after doing lots of that on the Navimag!) Hostal Mundo Nuevo in Ancud is great, friendly owners, good breakfasts, comfortable and it is in a great spot to see the sunset! (sorry folks, MORE sunset ...
Ancud via Puerto Varas, Puerto Montt and Pancha's
No longer on the mainland we are sampling the delights of rainy Chiloe. After Valdivia we went on to Puerto Varas and had a wonderful day sitting admiring Osorno, a big volcano overlooking a huge lake. We also (well mostly Ed) made a new best friend, ...
Islander
... kms long and 50 kms wide and is mainly populated by indigenous peoples with Chonos and Huilliche roots. We drove a short distance to Ancud which sits on a large bay on the north west side of the island. We found a hostal/Campground in town overlooking ...
ANCUD (Isla Chiloe)... (Pinguenera)
ANCUD ve HOSTEL 13 LUNAS... Kaldığım en harika Hostel "13 Lunas". Fotoları görünce hak vereceksiniz. Ve bir Hostel'in sıcak havasına kalanların kısa sürede uyumu eklenince harika tatil günleri. İlk gece ...
Onto a new country....
Our first stop in Chile was Ancud. It is a small, fishing port that has quite a lot of life to it. We booked a hostel (called Mar DE Vista) with a shared bathroom but were pleasantly surprised to be upgraded to a bigger and better room at the same cost by ...
chile
Nos fuimos de excursion a chile, con, sobretodo un proposito, tocar el pacifco!!! Nos encontramos con un pais bonito, cuidado y una naturaleza desbordante con volcanes, el ososrno, picos altisimos, como el cerro tronador y unas mareas en el pacifico que ...
Pinguins, ports, Pacific....
Je pars vers le Chili. En route , je pensais m arreter dans la region des lacs mais apres Bariloche, j ai bien envie d un peu de tranquilite et d authenticite alors, je vais direct vers l ile de Chiloe. Alors, la oui, je suis heureux. Dans le bus ...
I heard more German in Ancud than ever before
... said fax and briefed me on the proceedings. Armed with this information, I set out to set my affairs in order. I had come to Chile without a sweater and thus needed to buy one, had a pair of shoes and two books that I wanted to mail back to Santiago ...
Pingüineras
Bé finalment em vaig llevar i vaig poder arreglar un taxi que em portes a les pingüineres, protegides per convencions internacionals (Ottoway, crec que es diu) El viatge va ser llarg, pero amb paisatges molt espectaculars. Arribar allà viag poder ...

