Smorgens aangekomen in santiago. Savonds vertrokken naar Mendoza. Met de bus de Andes over. Geweldig. Ik raad iedereen aan dit te doen bij dag licht. dus niet niet zoals ik. Tres impressionante (mijn espaniol is nog altijd muy mal)

Panorama image from Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org (Click on the image to enlarge) The air is Antarctic clean compared to the oft diesel entrapped fumes of Buenos Aires. Not that the pollution takes much away from the smorgasbord of delights BA offers a tourist. However the freshness of Santiago screams 'you are at the base of the Andes an...

I was lucky enough to be here three years ago on a short trip visiting my brother who was teaching English to the penguins of Punta Arenas at that time.  Actually that`s not right. Now I recall it was the arctic seals that needed help with their vocab and grammar; the penguins having always been good linguists.  That trip had finished ...

Not much to say here... Chile is alright. Expensive... Went to San Pedro, did some more horse riding.... Then La Serena.... didn't do a whole lot here other than get followed by a pack of dogs for hours. They even say outside our cafe and waited for us. Then Santiago... cool city.

What a shock to the system being back in a huge metropolis after 3 fantastic weeks in the wild outdoors.  We arrived in rush hour traffic, witnessing the aftermath of the most spectacular bus crash ever (3 buses and 2 taxis mangled in an impressive multi-level tangle).  This marked the end of our tour and we now had to fend for ou...

Up and pack our stuff before we head back to the main square to send some stuff home (inc the glasses intact presently!). Then go up to the mercado central to have a look at the seafood and fish. Inside it is great all old metalwork, modelled apparently on Smithfield market in London, the only difference here is that there are some stars in th...

Well it was a not so happy welcome to South America when we first arrived in Chile. Not too dwell on it too much but when we arrived in a nice hostel we discovered that dermots bag had been ripped and our USB memory sticks with our photos on them stolen on our flight from LA to Santiago (American customs no less as we werent allowed to lock our ...

I will probably have to add to this later but: We left DC at 1pm Saturday and arrived into Santiago, Chile at approximately 8am on Sunday. That was some long traveling. Luckily, my friend Erin was on the same trip and there were a couple other students going to the same program from other law schools (Ottowa, Nebraska, Temple). On the flight dow...

Every kid who writes a travel blog loves to cite these letters. Reluctantly, I'm allowing myself to fall into that same vein: FROM: SEAN MURPHY, CONSUL GENERAL SUBJECT: WARDEN MESSAGE 2006 - 03 BEGIN TEXT American citizens living in or visiting Chile are advised of the continuing risk of violent confrontations between police and student demonstr...

woke in santiago,and got out at bus terminal,walked about 2 miles to a hostel,but they had a strange system and wouldnt te3ll us if we could get a room there or not.left bags tere and went to "bella vista" supposedly a nice area of town,but not very.found a market though.and cheap phone place home,rang home.went on the net then checked hostel ag...