Pedro De Valdivia
Carampangue 190 Valdivia, Lake District, Chile
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Pachamama day 4: Valdivia
... in 1960 when the world’s largest earthquake struck (over 10 on the Richter Scale). How bizarre! The city is 18km from the coast. We then headed further to a local market about 25mins away out of town, driving along the lagoons created by the three rivers. The gorse bush is a burst of yellow everywhere. Here it almost looked like a German beer-fest tent; but inside it was filled with little food stalls, all selling traditional Chilean foods. Loads ...
Lots of water - Lake district to the river distric
... we first went to our hostel and checked in. So far the hostels have been rather disappointing. Tonight's hostel would turn out to be okay for us (warm room and showers) whereas others had no heat and no hot water.
After checking in, we headed for a walk to the river fish market to see the sea lions or sea wolves as they are called here. They were huge! They were the size of manatees - definitely the largest ones that ...
Valdivia
... arrivé au fortifications, j'ai trouvé que les créneaux étaient un super endroit pour lire, alors j'y suis resté un long long moment. Si long que j'ai failli loupé mon bateau, j'ai dû courir pour l'attraper ! Il m'a déposé sur l'île de Mancera, entre Corral et Niebla. Là aussi, c'était très paisible et mignon, j'ai fait le tour de l'île en une heure. Le temps de manger des tartines de thon au bord de la mer et de rattaquer mon livre, et un bateau ...
Ey, Chicos- Vamos!
... legs and llama rides along the beach. Saw an incredible sunset later, proper ball of fire falling into the sea stuff.
Next day we were up and off South again, stopping in Santa Cruz to visit the Museo de Cochagua, owned by Carlos Cardoen, a major league arms dealer, sometime of serious interest to the FBI. Anyway, he has a lot of very interesting stuff, including a giant prehistoric bear skeleton, a 10 foot high gold ...
Bajo el sol de... Valdivia?!
... br> On the accomodation front I stumbled upon something quite strange. An old house where the owner has rooms for rent, nothing extraordinary there. But it's very different once inside: the house moved during the 1960 earthquake, part of the fundament sunk into the ground, so nothing inside is straight anymore, the floors heel, the doors open and close with such difficulty that there isn't any lock anywhere, the whole house is drunk! Up to the last day I ...



