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Chaiten
Travel Blogs from Chaiten, Chile
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Parque Pumalin
This is a top pick! ... of South America was never settled by significant numbers of South American Indians, and the European settlers didnt even establish Chaiten until the late 1950´s. It is truly a wilderness area. We climb up some wooden ladders that follow the course ...
Chaiten
This is a top pick! Alex: We left Coyhaique early for another mammoth trip over dirt road to cover the ridiculously short distance to Chaiten. The scenery was spectacular; lake filled valleys, tree covered hills, glaciers, snow capped mountains. The road was occasionally ...
Chiloén Churches and Chaitén Cheer
This is a top pick! ... at the island's southern tip across to Chaitén, a small town nestled under the rugged hills of the remote Aisén region of Chile. This was to be a special rendevous as Adrian and Tanja, our young Swiss friends, had been travelling up the Carretera ...
Chaiten
This is a top pick! ... , staying the night, eating or getting off the province. My emergency fund could not cover all. Fortunately chaiten is also the ferry port to Chiloe,Chile (another province and banking system) and our next planned stop. Upon arrival at the terminal I ...
CHILLY CHILOÉ, CHILE FOR SNORKELLING
This is a top pick! ... is without its faults. Even the migrating snorkel-fish. Case in point, just note The Top 5 Worst Things About Chile! 1. BEGGARS, ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG BACKPACKERS - In south Chile, the beggars were either alcoholics, people who don´t like ...
Day 189: February 20, 2008 Coyhaique to Caitén
... before going downtown to get cash and food for lunch. We found a cash machine in a drugstore which seems to be pretty standard in Chile. With Liz at the wheel, we headed north on Ruta 7. A couple of kilometers out of town, we picked up two Chilean guys ...
Heading south on El Camino Austral.
After getting off the ferry in Chaiten, we got a taste of what the population on our bike journey would be like. Chaiten is the largest city between Puerto Montt and Coyhaique with 2000 people, read, not big. But they did have stores for us to stock up ...
cendres mouvantes,et electricite non retablie !***
English German Español Arrivees ici apres 3 heures de bus.. bus qui part comme toujours au chili a 6 heures du matin..Dur dur quand tu te couches a 4h30.. Bon a l arrivee, on achete nos billets pour quellon, vu qu il y a un bateau part ...
Chaiten (or: getting to Chiloe part two)
... yard. Apparently, the air force crashed it some years ago and someone decided to convert it into part of their home. Chaiten lives in almost constant fog, at least to judge by our experience, which disappears just a little inland. But when we ...
Not A Very Good Place
... had a big movie screen (they showed the same movie twice), and toilets that didn't flush. five hours later we docked in Chaiten, a town with about 3 blocks worth of stores. by stores, i really mean a few bodegas. there were no buses out ...
Bloqués dans une ville détruite par un volcan....
... téo. Bain brulant sous la pluie. Nicolas nous raconte les anecdotes sur l´éuption, le sauvetage (aucun mort), la vie actuelle a Chaiten. Assez touchant. Retour 13h. Nous avons le droit a une part de saumon géante pour le repas. Apres midi ...
The saga continues
... not still fighting over territory with Argentina, where Tompkins also owns land, so was more secure. When we got back to Chaiten the fog had finally lifted and we had a great view up the coast to a cone mountain and the sunset. The hills ...
Our way down Chile
... high above where we had spent the night, hiking on a ridge around the lake and waving to Christian, Fabian, and their dog, Chaiten, down below. By now, we were a little more familiar with the terrain and had a little feel for the rhythm of the ...
Rainy rainforest and millenary old trees
Dimanche nous avons pris le bus à 8h direction Chaitén. Il n'a pas cessé de pleuvoir, c'était déprimant. De nouveau le bus nous a secoués, mais cette fois-ci, changement de décor, hourra! La végétation devenait de plus en plus abondante et ...
Fjords of Chile
... 3 full days on the Navimag Ferry from Peurto Natales upto Peurto Montt. Due to very poor road infrastructure this far South in Chile this was the only option to get back north. The other options included flying, which I thought was cheating out on the ...
Colgante Hanging Glacier
Drove through into Quelat National Park and camped out below the Colgante Hanging Glacier. After lunch I went to get my gear to start the trek to see the glacier close up but the person in charge of the truck keys had locked it up and gone for a boat ...
Volcano factory
... space on the once-a-week ferry to Chiloe island. We met Nicolas, a local, who told us of the devastating eruption of the Chaiten Volcano in 2008. In addition to blowing ash up into the wind, the ash flowed like a river down the volcano and through town. ...
Une ville sous les cendres
... israelien synpathique. Malgre le vent fort et frais, le paysage de montagne enneige, nous fait rester sur le pont. En s approchant de chaiten, on apercoit la fumee du volcan qui a provoque l evacuation de la ville en Mai dernier. Il est toujours bien ...
It's a grey morning and cycling down to the ...
It's a grey morning and cycling down to the pier I encounter Eldon Dales, about to board. The Castro - Chaiten catamaran takes just under 3 hours to cross the gap between Chiloë and the mainland. Eldon and I met further north outside Osorno one ...
Chaiten
... headed for the bus station but there were no departures anywhere till tomorrow so we are stuck here in this little nasty town of Chaiten in a nasty campsite with no even ground and loads of rocks, eating nasty food, with a nasty owner of the campsite. ...
Chaiten
... a ticket. The crossing took 5+ hours and we were pitched to and fro and regularly doused with crashing waves. There was a campground in Chaiten but when we arrived the gate was chained and no one was around. This is a very basic outpost and I guess that ...
Boat ride - Quellon to Chaiten
... us so much of kayaking in Alaska. After a little over 4 hours on the Pacific, we arrive at the docks just outside of Chaiten, a small town devastated by a volcanic eruption in 2008. From a distance, we can see what used to be a river entering the ...
A quick trip to Chile
... . The border crossing is very painless, just hand over passports and import document in Argentina and then a 5 km drive to the Chile checkpoint, again easy but drawn out as everything is done by hand. We then carried on for a while, eventually stopping by ...
Start of the Carretara Austral
... ; Our ferry was only a 10 hour ride(that turned into 12) across the Gulf of Ancud to the small 8X10 block town of Chaiten. This is the beginning of the infamous Carretera Austral, route 7. Its a 770 mile long gravel road through some of ...
home sweet home but not!
... to us haha and we annoyed her even more by asking for the hot water to be turned on and having very bad spanish haha! l chaiten so reminds me of home its right on the water with promenage a wee harbour fishing boats and there is links land with gorse ...
Chaiten
... to Puerto Montt, which is where we wanted to get to eventually, but they just need to complete a 60km section between there and Chaiten. This place was a transport headache. We arrived on Sunday evening, about 5pm. We met a couple in Puyuhuapi who ...
Journee a Chaiten ; termas de amarilllo
... agées. Résultat : il connait plein de bons plans, et j'en ai profité pendant tout le trajet ! Vers 9h15, on arrive à Chaiten. Je devais y rester 24h, pour prendre un ferry le lendemain. Chaiten a été détruite en 2008 par un volcan qu'on croyait ...
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