Chile: 2 days 6 hours in a bus
We arrived in Santiago de Chile after spending a length of time on a bus that I had never before imagined was possible and be honest - it was fine. I spent probably half the time staring out of the...
View ArticleChile: Santiago from Cerro San Cristobal
High above Santiago is the Cerro San Cristobal, a Andean foot-hill that towers over the city from where you can see everything on a clear day. Both our days in Santiago were clear days, so we were...
View ArticleChile: The Metro system of Santiago
The metro system in Santiago shows what a disgrace the London Underground is. The trains and platforms here have air-conditioning. Each platform has several plasma screen TV´s entertaining passengers...
View ArticleChile: Santiago City Streets
These photos show some of the streets near the Rio Mapocho near Bellavista. It surprised me how like London it was. We even have the same traffic lights and taxi´s are black.
View ArticleChile: Santiago Centro
Our first stop was the Plaza de Armas where our first sight on ascending from the metro was a dead homeless man having prayers said over him by a city official with a bible. Not at all what I expected...
View ArticleChile: Santiago’s Cerro Santa Lucia
Santa Lucia is another high lump of mountain in the middle of the city with good views. It is here where Valdivia founded the city after marking out the streets. It is now a city park. We spent about a...
View ArticleChile: Valparaiso – Up Above
We arrived in Valparaiso and went straight to Cerro Concepción to our hotel. This city is composed of two parts, the sea-level ocean front and the cerros behind, where houses are delicately perched and...
View ArticleChile: Valparaiso – Down Below
Here you really feel like you could be in Victorian England, the streets and buildings date from around that time and are lined with telegraph wires and power lines for the bus-trams. The port is still...
View ArticleChile: Viña del Mar
This is a more modern town that sits on the edge of Valparaiso. Normally it is visited for its beaches, but we are here in the winter and it is a little too cold for that. The town has more hotels,...
View ArticleChile: Valdivia
Valdivia, being hundreds of miles south of Santiago and Valparaíso - in this country of unimaginable distances, takes over 10 hours to get to by bus. For this reason we took an overnight bus, which...
View ArticleChile: Puerto Montt
We arrived to this city in the late evening in the dark and were shocked at how dirty and run-down the city was in comparison to what we had seen so far. We hoped that by daylight the place would look...
View ArticleChile: Ancud in Chiloé
Ancud was founded in 1769 as a Spanish stronghold in the region, and after Peruvian independence in 1824 it was the Spanish Crown's last possession in all of South America. The bay is surrounded by...
View ArticleChile: Castro in Chiloé
Castro is the third oldest city in Chile, founded in 1567. It is at the end of a fjord that reaches almost 20km into the island of Chiloé. This city has been destroyed again and again by earthquakes...
View ArticleChile: Achao, Isla Quinchao, in Chiloé
Doing anything touristy at this time of year has proven difficult. Most tour operators on the island seems to be completely closed this time of year, which has made it difficult to see some of the best...
View ArticleChile: Chonchi in Chiloé
Chonchi was another beautiful old traditional town. It has managed to keep many of its original timber buildings (despite a large fire in 2002). Unfortunately almost all of its palifitos were destroyed...
View ArticleChile: Puerto Varas
The cold Chiloé weather and lack of money prompted us to start the return to the north. To do so we made a stop of in the southern vacation spot of Puerto Varas before taking the bus to Santiago and...
View ArticleChile: Iquique – heat at last
The northern-most region of Chile is a land of barren rock and the driest desert in the world. One that has no recorded rainfall - ever. This inhospitable region is huge, towns and cities are hundreds...
View ArticleChile: Nitrate Ghost Towns
Perhaps the highlight of our trip to Chile, other than just being in Chiloé, was visiting the abandoned ghost towns of the nitrate mining era. Just 30 minutes from Iquique are Humberstone and Santa Laura.
View ArticleChile: La Tirana
La Tirana is a town of dusty streets and adobe houses with a church and a piece of history as its only attractions. La Tirana is named after an Inca princess Huillac Ñusca. In 1535 Diego de Almagro, a...
View ArticleChile: Cerros Pintados
There are over 400 geoglyphs drawn in the sand in the desert in the Reserva Nacional Pampa del Tamarugal depicting animals, humans and geometric patterns. We arrive to see them as the sun was setting,...
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