Parque Yayanes Isla Chiloe

... I add to their life&#8217;s story. I tell of places they have only seen in movies; tall buildings and Farris wheels, of old German castles and night under the Affel Tour, in Paris. I become a dream weaver; a teller of stories. They hang on spoken in broken Spanish as if I were Pablo Neruda himself. They speak and I listen and now their story becomes a part of mine. <br><br>Hours of walking, taking pictures and talking has found us hungry again. We ...

... genre fumeurs de pétards de Belle-Île-en-Mer. Si on rajoute en plus les familles aux marmots extrêmement mal élevés, ça donne une idée de la population estivale. Dommage... Le temps de faire une petite pause et de dormir un peu, je suis allé à l'île de Quinchoa, sur laquelle est le village d'Achao. De nombreuses personnes m'avaient recommandé cet endroit, mais ça a été pour moi une grosse déception. D'abord c'était dimanche, donc mort, et ...

... mostly farmland. Sunshine all day. At the little port we picked up a local guide who was fantastic, most interesting and knowledgeable about the history and birds on the island. The birdlife is amazing. Stopped at a beach and wandered along, the shore just covered with birds, particularly black necked swans. A short stop for oysters... which those who liked them said were wonderful. Bernard enjoyed them! Lunch was at a fish restaurant overlooking the sea ...

... of plants I don't recognise at all. And lots of falcons, and a bird (joté?) apparently related to the condor. Then there's an amazing ecosystem called the Tepual (I think) based around the tree of the same name - dense twisting tree trunks creating a huge mass of life, vauely like mangroves, but without the stench, and fairly dry. Further up again you would see Alerce trees - but we didn´t have the time. We planned to camp in the national park for ...

... il me reste 1h 1/2 selon un villageois qui me propose egalement un site de camping parce que selon lui c est pareil ici que la bas. Quand j attaque les pentes de la falaise, je me dis que j aurais peut etre du l ecouter mais une fois sur le promontoire qui domine la plage de Cole cole, la je me dis que j ai bien fait de venir jusqu ici parce que ca dechire... Aux environs, il y a 3 fermettes, deux autres campements et trois types qui travaillent sur le refuge. Je plente ...

... in the fish market, that contained some kind of zzdafot, and it was really good, eventhough its not hygienic. i also had a paila marina, which is a soup with a lot of sea food in it, weired, but had to taste it. yesterday i came back to puerto varas just to get some souveniers, really nice faces made of clay of the local indians, i saw it in here and then i couldnt find it everywhere, so i had to come back to buy it. luckily i did have a second chance this time.

... in the Castro city museum. I promise to upload plenty of church pictures if I can ever find a USB connection. We spent about a week in Chiloé, which is literally infested with tiny villages and a crack bus system linking them all together. We hiked around in the most disorganized National Park we´ve been to in South America, (the park office just pretended there were trails and campsites)which was nonetheless a nice taste of the wild, temperate rainforest that ...

... to, it rains down this way, and Ive seen quite a lot of it over the last week or so. The sun did come out to shine in the afternoon which was a welcome sight. Chiloe is as I have been told has some stunning scenery and a different vibe to the mainland of Chile, maybe it was too much to try and discover in one day, I'm sure its all there.. somewhere..

... on a donc ete super bien traites partout ou on est alle. L ile compte 120 000 habitants et est compose de gros bourgs, de champs et de grands espaces deserts qui ressemblent un peu au finistere breton ou a la cornouaille anglaise. Le temps aussi est anglais mais je crois qu on a eu de la chance. Les petits villages sont assez propers et vivent de la peche, de la laine et de l elevage du saumon. Resultat, on mange tres bien et l ambiance est une ambiance marine, donc l ...

... other than I had a Barros Luca here, another Chilean specialty, a steak and cheese sandwich named after a former president. The following morning we took the 30 minute local bus to Puerto Vares which was a much nicer town and similar to Pucon in that it was surrounded by the extremely large Lake Llanquihue with the snow-capped Orsono Volcano in the far distance. After a couple of hours wandering around Puerto Vares, I had seen ...