Yesterday we drove from Pucon in the south of Chile to Zapallar on the Pacific coast, west of Santiago. If our first impression of Pucon was of the English Lake District then Zapallar is Carmel in California. We arrived as the fog rolled in from the ocean, just as it does in Carmel most days. The drive itself was easy, if prolonged. The odometer...

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Fiona Having caught the very comfortable night bus back from Puerto Varas to Santiago (if travelling in South America, ALWAYS choose a Cama seat. Anything less is like travelling cattle class on a Britannia charter flight), we were taken once again to the Hotel Neruda in Providencia. The reason for our return was to meet Alejandro, who had worke...

Zapallar with Jill, Dave and Ariel. The beach was beautiful however the water had lots of floating baby dead shrimp... Anyway, we ate a restaurant about ten feet from the beach for lunch, machas (razor clams). We explored and admired all the mansions surrounding the beach and sampled locos! They are illegal in the states but only seasonaly illeg...