 | Sod it .... I'm going to Argentina !!
2008-07-23, Osorno, Chile. By: cbr600f | | Another quick entry .... I arrived here in Osorno this morning after another overnight bus, sitting next to an 8 year old girl called Natalia who was probably the chattiest and most inquisitive bloody... |
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| Another Capital City ....
2008-07-22, Santiago, Chile. By: cbr600f | | Greetings from Santiago de Chile !
I left La Serena 3 days ago and got the bus down here, actually that was a weird one, I'd bought a ticket for the 10am bus and, bloody hell I managed to sleep in... |
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 | Atacama!
2008-05-16, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: letlozz | | Sooo, with only a week left to go we are now in the Atacama desert! We spent the weekend in La Serena, with Alexis´s aunts family... for people who we have such a tenuous link to, they were so kind, t... |
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 | Eating Camelids
2008-05-08, Putre, Chile. By: dan | | Ate my first piece of camelid yesterday. An Alpaca steak, served with instant mash and er... doughnuts. To be honest it tasted like porky beef, but was still quite good. Oh yes, and we haven´t been bl... |
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| smelly seas and bits of bodies
2008-05-05, Valparaiso, Chile. By: letlozz | | Hello everyone,
we´re in Chile, visiting Tims sister and her boyfriend at the moment. Its quite a change after Guatemala- its a lot more western and ´normal´feeling, and hence a lot more expensive... |
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| A rabbit and sand.
2008-05-03, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: dan | | It turns out that the South Americans also bring unusual animals onto buses. A very calm looking rabbit, although that might have been because its ears and legs were taped together (to clarify: the ea... |
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 | Completo
2008-04-25, Pucon, Chile. By: dan | | So, this is how the simplest of plans can go hideously wrong.
The plan was this: eat a tasty hot dog.
So, at the bus station, we order hot dogs. So far, so good. A substantial looking 8 inch wh... |
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 | Bingo and Flamingoes
2008-04-17, Puerto Natales, Chile. By: dan | | So, away from home again :). In Chile now, having steamed through Brazil and Argentina at high speed, laying waste to numerous pastries and a significant quantity of Frango, which is allegedly chicken... |
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 | Buenos Dias!
2008-04-01, Pichilemu, Chile. By: saradekker | | Just to let you know, we arrived in Chile!
Dave and I had a mini adventure in our quest to claim seats on the flight with the rest of our team. It all depends on who you ask! God loves us. We ... |
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 | Heading home today,.....
2008-02-26, Valparaiso, Chile. By: mdlstone | | I dropped Emily off at her hotel this morning. I met two girls from her program, both seemed very nice. They went to lunch and the beach after I left. They have a great location for their 4 day ori... |
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| From Concon back to Valparaiso
2008-02-25, Valparaiso, Chile. By: mdlstone | | Saturday night, after Jon left for the airport with our indomitable guide Claudia, Emily and I worked on our scrapbooks in her hotel room and then turned in, sleeping till 9:00 AM the next morning. W... |
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| A few more days in Chile that were unscheduled!
2008-02-24, Valparaiso, Chile. By: mdlstone | | Well, all of you who were waiting for me to return to the USA today will have to wait until Wednesday.....
So, we left our hotel in Valpo and arrived in Concon on Friday, the 22nd. The hotel, as I... |
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| New Hotel on the Beach and a Contact for Emily
2008-02-21, Concon, Chile. By: mdlstone | | Here´s a link for those of you who would like to see some pictures from our trip: [url]http://picasaweb.google.com/emilysto/Peru22208[/url]
She has sorted them and picked out some good ones....hop... |
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| We've successfully brought Emily to her new home!
2008-02-21, Valparaiso, Chile. By: mdlstone | | Hello everyone who is keeping track of us. Yesterday we woke up at 4:00 AM in Lima, Peru and headed to the airport. We flew to Santiago, Chile and were picked up there and driven 1 1/2 hours to Valp... |
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 | Airport blues...or rather red-in-the-faces
2008-02-13, Santiago, Chile. By: juliac | | I haven´t had much to update since I´ve been in Santiago, which is why I´ve been quiet. It´s just been a blissful few days of enjoying the sun, eating nice things and wandering round museums and not m... |
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 | "and suddenly I saw the heavens unfastened..."
2008-02-07, Santiago, Chile. By: juliac | | I´m sitting outside Pablo Neruda´s house in Santiago, La Chascona, reading my favourite poem of his (La Poesia) having a very romantic moment. "And it was at that age, poetry came/in search of me...th... |
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 | business at the navel of the world
2007-11-08, easter island, Chile. By: vorn | | somehow ended up in business class on the flight out to easter island-row 1! which is a fair effort for a bloke who always seems to find himself in the back 5 rows of any plane he is travelling on. so... |
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 | deep vein thrombosis
2007-11-04, valparaiso, Chile. By: vorn | | after i said goodbye to nisi i had to get myself several thousand kilometres down to santiago for my flight to easter island, and i hadnt left myself a whole heap of time to do it.
so i did 76 hour... |
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 | Dark Chilean Sand
2007-10-13, Pichilemu, Chile. By: sauntering | | The next day brought us to a Southern beach town called Pichilemu. Its rushing waves make it ideal for surfers (and humiliating to the athletically challenged such as myself). Unlike Viña Del Mar and... |
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 | Chilean Road Trip
2007-10-12, Valparaiso, Chile. By: sauntering | | But I have missed the mountains terribly.
I didn’t know it until I came back here, but it’s absolutely undeniable. Today, we drove for a few hours to some Northern beaches in Dani’s car. Dani i... |
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 | First Impressions of Chile
2007-10-11, Santiago, Chile. By: sauntering | | Of Santiago, my Lonely Planet guide writes, “Classic sidewalk cafes and fast-food outlets line the streets under glassy skyscrapers that dwarf colonial buildings. Its stately, dignified boulevards an... |
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 | Happy feet
2007-10-13, Ancud, Chile. By: clair2amy | | Met random dude on bus and ferry called Maurice (we think) who spoke a little english. Decided to be our personal bodygaurd and escorted us to our hostel and into central as he was worried we mioght g... |
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 | Amy and clair do rapids
2007-10-11, Pucon, Chile. By: clair2amy | | We decided we were not sore enough after volcano trek and horse riding that we would do some more adventures. George and Clair chose white water rafting so scared little Amy was forced to agree. Nico ... |
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| sore bum
2007-10-09, Pucon, Chile. By: clair2amy | | morning after volcano hell, scraped ourselves out of bed to ride in a horse. George from team austraia also joined up for adventure number 2. George got the slow horse, clair got the psycho horse and ... |
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| Volcan Villarrica
2007-10-08, Pucon, Chile. By: clair2amy | | Oh my god what were we thinking!! 6.30 am arrive at shop and start piling on equipment and layers of clothing not understanding spanish guide. Very scared already. Take bus trip to base of massive mou... |
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| we love the tur-bus
2007-10-04, Chillan, Chile. By: clair2amy | | after saying our good bye to our new favorite hostel and catching our first taxi! we hopped on the bus to a little town called Curico (we should have read between the lines in lonely planet when it sa... |
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 | Steps, hills and colour
2007-10-03, Valparaiso, Chile. By: clair2amy | | Short bus trip from Santiago took us to the portside town of Valparaiso. WOW!! Rolling hills filled with colourful buildings, cable cars, stairs, winding roads and alley ways. We arrived with Kim who ... |
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