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El Tatio geysers San Pedro de Atacama
6 Reviews If you ever wondered how Earth looked like in prehistoric times, before massive life forms appeared on the surface of the planet, here’s the answer: it was like El Tatio ("weeping old man" in Kunza...
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Caves San Pedro de Atacama
2 Reviews We left daylight in this hole behind ? and were very lucky in meeting a couple of spanish geologists exploring the caves with professional equipment. They took us down into a long cave system which...
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Moon Valley San Pedro de Atacama
1 Review Beware ! There are a few South American countries with Valle de la luna's (Moon Valley) on their maps. I have to say that the Valle de la luna in Argentina near San Juan is the best. Everyone in San...
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Drive across the pampas of Tierra del Fuego to Lago Deseado. This was a beautiful location and we would have liked to have done some birding here but the rain wouldm't stop. Lago Deseado was the end of the line for us. There was construction nearby on a new road that would take you to Argentina but it wasn't completed. One has to wonder if this road was being built for loggers and not for anglers.
Lago Blanco is 227 kilometre from Povenir. It has very interesting scenery. It is surrounded by wooded hillsides, with the Darwin mountain range in the background. It is not unusual to see groups of Guanacos, or see magnificent condors soaring overhead. We were told a pair of Condors have their nest there.The lake is known to have large spotted trout. Fishing in this part of Chile is a well kept secret, until now. Sorry Stallone.
Experience life on an Estancia. An Estancia is a ranch in Latin America.. These ranches are usually quite large.Some have programs for over night stays. Some have fishing tours. Others have full day excursions where you are shown ranch life and then you can ride horses. I snapped a picture of this Estancia in Chilean Tierre del Fuego. I don’t remember the name of it but thought it impressive.
For all you nature lovers, this is a must see. One of the largest nesting sights of the Magellanic penguins can be visited while you are in Punta Arenas. It is a two hour ferry ride to get there but well worth the time. They arrive on the Isla Magdalena in October, mate, raise their one or two babies, then return to sea by March.Book this tour with a travel agency near the plaza. The ferry does tours on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
At the foot of South America is its last remaining wilderness, the island of Tierre del Fuego.It is the land of mountains, glaciers, and rivers with giant trout. This is also beaver country.In Valle Castor( Beaver Valley) the beavers are hard at work trying to dam up the flowing waters. Here is where the Magellanic forests begin.There is plenty of firewood there for now, lets home they do not permit the loggers to strip this beautiful area.
Virtuoso pianist, Claudio Arrau was born in Chillan in 1903. A child prodigy, at the age of 8 he left the town with his mother, aunt and sister, to study in Berlin. Chillan remained close to his heart however and when he died he left the town an enormous treasury of his personal possessions, including the complete library of his manuscripts. The town has responded by building a wonderful new museum and learning centre to house the collection and to provide access not onlt to the great man's life and work but music generally.Although not yet complete - there are plans for a recital hall and music studios that are yet to be funded so they are still on the drawing board - the complex has made a museum of Arrau's childhood home and built the first stage of the music centre - a wonderful room full of interactive musical experiences. These are the areas for public access - there are offices...
Following the earthquake that all but destroyed Chillan in 1939, the first school to be rebuilt in the town was done so as a gift from the Mexican Government. Known still as the Escuela Mexico, the school's library is decorated with two large murals, the choice of this art form further emphasizing the Mexican connection. Painted by one of the foremost Mexican muralists of the day, they graphically - and rather gruesomely - depict the heroes and histories of Chile and Mexico. They really are very powerful, not at all the sort of thing you would expect to see in a provincial town's primary school library.The library is open to visitors from 10-12.30 and again from 3-6 and there is no charge, or any way to make a donation. The school is at O'Higgins 250, the main road in from the highway.
Fifteen minutes from downtown Santiago you can find green pastures cozying up to new or established housing developments. Although areas outside of the city are popular with the up-and-coming, small slivers of land are still occupied by farm animals. I snapped this photo on my daily walk. The land is being used by tenants until it is sold to developers. It provided a sweet diversion for me!
When walking around Santiago, beautifully detailed sculptures, fountains or monuments will suddenly appear along the way. Any city of age has them! This particular fountain shows Neptune, God of the Sea, and Aphrodite, Goddess of Beauty, having a relaxing conversation. I wasn't able to find any background information of this piece, but it certainly was striking.
The scientists of this base will offer you a very warm welcome, and after exchanging a few phrases in Spanish with you, drinking a mate (typical Argentinean and Chilean tea-like drink) and explain you about their biological job, they will sell you stamps from the Antarctica, postcards that you can mail from that base (it will take them over two months to reach the destination!), and a cardboard certificate stating that you where in their base for just 1 US Dollar.Base Gabriel Gonzalez Videla (Chile)Capitania de Puerto Bahia ParaisoChilean Antarctica
Radisson Plaza Santiago Hotel Santiago
6 Reviews and 187 Opinions We stayed in Santiago last Nov, for our first night and our last night (before a morning departure)....
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Robinson Crusoe Inn Valparaíso
4 Reviews and 30 Opinions Avoid this hotel at all cost. It was a disaster. We arrived at 8PM. It was the least friendly...
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Q: Hi, I am hoping to catch the night bus to Puno from Santiago. My flight leaves gets in at noon and I hear the bus usually...
A: You aren't going to Puno if you are going south from Santiago, maybe Pucón? Take an airport bus to one of the bus stations, Terminal Santiago will have the most buses...
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