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Josefina Edwards De Ferrari 0100 Santiago, Chile, 56-2-707-1000
Greetings from Punta Arenas, Chile. We arrived here about three hours after a six hour drive from Torres Del Paine National Park in Patagonia. WOW! What a majestical place. The entire landscape was carved out by glaciers. We had the luxury of staying at this incredible hotel tucked in at the base of ¨The Towers and several glaciers. Our days consisted of amazing excursions (as they prefer to call them), large feasts, excessive consumption of pisco sours and chatting with people from all over ...
Punta Arenas, Chile j_katzHi all !! Our last day in Atacame and Altiplano was as magical as the first: another full day trip (very " full"...), this time north-east from San Pedro, to Salar de Tara. Up there, we can see, very close to us, the volcano sitting were the countries of Bolivia, Argentina and Chile meet. Going to this Salt Lake (altitude 15 000 feet), we can only realize the huge contrast between the bare, seemingly lifeless surroundings and this paradise full of life. But here again, flamingos, llamas, vicu...
Santiago, Chile sergemichael
... the valium but definately will on the way home.We went to bed at 7.30 that first night.Our room in our hotel wasn´t that great on the first night then they shifted us and its much nicer so we were pleased<br>Off to Lima tomorrow...better go do something...am hoping my cell phone will work in Peru.<br>Luv cetrecexxox
Santiago, Chile cetrece... bruises from the aggression of the other kids. My biggest fear is that he is going to learn these behviors, and that he will learn aggression is an acceptable way of dealing with frustration and anger. His rough start to life will confront him at some point in the future when he is older, and I hope to God that he doesn't use aggression to deal with his problems then. As vital as a family life is for any of ...
Santiago, Chile cat725... went to do the moon valley tour where you see stunning views of the vast desert and its dunes with the distant volcanoes as a background. Seeing the sunset was something special as well. I also went over to do star gazing where we got to see stars up close through some pretty big telescopes, we could see the craters on the moon, navigating where the telescpe was looking through the controls ...
Santiago, Chile heinz82... because they are not represented on the streets!! Today the shops were open (unlike Sunday...) and so i walked around....and have to report that the city-scape looks something like what i imagine Sydney looked like in the 80s. And it is interesting, that although Chile is the wealthiest country in South America, with (significantly) the least people living in poverty, everyone walks around dressed like they got their entire wardrobes ...
Santiago, Chile tillysouth... a cable car so took it up and up and got a good view over Santiago which is huge. Mountains in the distance. A great difference in outlook depending on which side you look - skyscrapers/business area or densely packed suburb. At the top there is a huge statue of the Virgin Mary with a smaller Jesus on the cross nearby. Should be able to update when back here after Atacama desert. Well, time for a drink, dry work in the heat and chat!
Santiago, Chile uspearls... t it? Personally speaking, I´ve returned a number of times to Toledo´s Hotel Sol, and it´s NEVER had anything to do with the hotel, except for one little thing - and that little thing happened to be Spanish, cute, sweet, petite, and sitting at their reception desk! Anyway, the breakfast definitely was not as impressive as the picture presented on their website - it looked like quite the spread in the photo, but turned out to be only toast ...
Santiago, Chile pwong... br>Either way I needed to cancel the card asap and just had to hope that no-one used it before I could block it. So I called our UK bank on my mobile (ouch), cancelled the card and then pretty much collapsed from stress and exhaustion!<br><br>Helpfully, the bank refused to send a new card to anywhere other than my home address ...
Santiago, Chile al_fey15th January. Try figuring this out. I woke up at 6am on the 15th January 2007. After a delay at the airport<br>we finally took off at 5pm for a 2hr flight and a 1hr stopover at Auckland. That should be 8pm. Then a<br>10hr flight to Santiago which should take us to 6am on the 16th January 2007. However, we landed at 4pm<br>on the 15th January 2007. That's an hour before we took off and a 32 hour day??? I know the ...
Santiago, Chile andyb63uk
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