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Video: In Patagonia
Blog: GoBackpacking - 26 June 2010
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A Merenjunge! (A big mix of stuff, Chile, TBEX, World Cup!)
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 25 June 2010
The first whiff of real air after airconditioned, heated, dehydrated air on an overnight flight is damp. The breeze outside of JFK smells oceany. Like I just got hit in the face with a sheet of seaweed. And not nori. Something decidedly more rank. After I get out of the car at my mother's house, it smells like green. Freshly cut spinach, maybe even sauteed in the summer heat. With sesame oil. Or maybe I'm making that part up. It's a culinary jungle out there.
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Santiago, Chile Wishes You Were Here
Blog: Suzy Guese - 24 June 2010
This week’s Wish You Were Here photo comes from Melissa McKee of the blog for Collette Vacations. She shares a great view she experienced in Chile. The park on top of Cerro San Cristóbal, the big mountain overlooking Santiago, was incredible. I took the 10-minute tram ride to the top, where a few last steps (o.k., it [...]
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Seasonal Jetlag, and coming/going home
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 23 June 2010
It's a kind of strangely New-Yorky cold out lately in Santiago. It's crisp but not bitter, but there's a cold wind that will catch that strip of skin that shows when your shirt rides up and your pants don't sit at your waist.I was in the car with a friend recently driving up past El Golf and there were twinkly bluish lights strung through some straggly-limbed trees, on the sidewalk, all loops and disorganization and I said "Se ve como Nueva York en el invierno" (It looks like New York in winter).
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Velvet moments: travel photo of the week – Valparaiso, Chile
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 16 June 2010
The magnificent murals of Valparaiso, Chile. Read the accompanying post: ‘The murals of Valparaiso‘. See other Velvet moments: Floating villages, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia Zanzibar, Tanzania Lago Grey, Torres del Paine, Chile Pompeii, Italy Bora Bora, French Polynesia Serengeti, Tanzania Sacred Water Temple, Bali, Indonesia Masaai Mara, Kenya Iguazu Falls, Brazil/Argentina
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San Pedro de Atacama To Arequipa – Long, But Nice And Easy
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 9 June 2010
So easy that I don’t even know if a post is necessary, but it seems to be a very popular route so I suppose it’s a good idea to map it out in case anyone needs it. From San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, you can get a night bus to Arica, up near the border. [...]
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San Pedro de Atacama - a brief visit to Chile
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 8 June 2010
Our salt flat tour concluded with a comfortable mini-van ride across the border in to Chile. From the seat behind, a booming voice with a Canadian accent excitedly announced the arrival of asphalt. His proclamation was met with a muted response from the passengers, which was understandable. Through one tour group or other we had all spent two and a half days crammed in the back of Land Cruisers traveling over rough terrain, but we knew what he meant.
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San Pedro De Atacama, Chile – Luxury At A Price, Definitely Worth It
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 7 June 2010
After three days in a jeep, no showers and no roads; after a month in Bolivia which is, let’s face it, a little less developed than other countries; the arrival into San Pedro de Atacama was akin to going from Kansas to Oz. I’m not saying there were munchkins or witches or that everything suddenly [...]
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Blast from the past..
Blog: Pasándolo Chancho - 7 June 2010
I should be working but I'm not because I feel guilty about neglecting this blog for so long. And there is nothing like a dose of melancholy to fuel your procrastination. I've had this video sitting here for so long that I can't remember where I found it. Suffice to say it's full of incredible archival footage that anyone interested in Santiago should watch, if only for a glimpse of what the city was like before it got 80s-ified! Behold the heyday, 1937, of the endearingly titled land of charm!
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National Heritage and Nibbles, a Sunday Morning in Santiago
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 31 May 2010
The moneyed, the less-fortunate, the smokers and chocolate eaters all lined up for hours yesterday in Santiago to get their architecture and history fix.
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Day 109: Taking it easy at El Refugio
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 30 May 2010
Volcan Lanin rising like King of the Earth I can't believe Volcan Pacaya blew its top yesterday! I remember thinking to myself after hiking Pacaya what a story it would be if it were to erupt after we left. Crazy... there's definitely some real plate tectonic activity this year with earthquakes in Chile and Haiti, now followed by volcanic eruptions all over Central America. We're still in
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Day 107: Volcanoes, Hot Springs and Flat Tyres
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 29 May 2010
Volcan Villarrica There's bad luck, and there's bad luck... and I'm in a string of real fuckin' bad luck. Our rented pickup burst its tyre yesterday morning, got it fixed, only to have it burst again later that afternoon! The second time on a rocky dirt road in the middle of nowhere. Thank god there were road workers nearby who gave us a hand. Much needed help!! Flat tyre on our rented
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Velvet moments: travel photo of the week – Lago Grey, Torres del Paine
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 26 May 2010
Lago Grey, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile Read the accompanying post: Patagonia: Home of the Gods (Part II) See other Velvet moments: Pompeii, Italy Bora Bora, French Polynesia Serengeti, Tanzania Sacred Water Temple, Bali, Indonesia Masaai Mara, Kenya Iguazu Falls, Brazil/Argentina Valle de la Luna, Chile Positano, Italy Buenos Aires, Argentina Seminyak, Indonesia Lang [...]
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One of my favorite windows (Santiago, Chile)
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 25 May 2010
This is one of my favorite windows. Favorite window, you say? but of course. Everyone should have one.
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A Unique Border Crossing into Bolivia
Blog: Mood to Travel - 24 May 2010
It was time to cross the border into Bolivia. Having spoken to a few people about it, this journey across the Andes was one of the highlights of their trip. We were both excited and nervous as we were now in the hands of Estrella Del Sur, the tour agency we had picked to take us across. It had been recommended to us by fellow travellers, and from the reviews of all the agencies on line it seemed pot luck as to whether you would get a good trip or not. There were horror stories about drivers being drunk, the 4x4’s breaking down, and shockingly, not enough food or water being provided.
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Day 102: Aimless wandering...
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 23 May 2010
Getting our fill of Santiaguino seafood Having breakfast at the bus terminal. We just arrived in Santiago, Chile's capital and it's surprisingly cold here (low double digits). We're in one of those "where to go from here" phases again, not sure what next move to make. Only in Santiago to get my camera lens fixed but we don't want to stay here. Nearby Valparaiso and Viña del Mar don't appeal
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Acclimatising in San Pedro De Atacama, Chile
Blog: Mood to Travel - 22 May 2010
Iglesia San Pedro [Enlarge]
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The case of the hot toilet paper/Going to the feria in Santiago
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 22 May 2010
Toilet paper, tp, papel higiénico, confort, we all use it.
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Travel Vaccinations for Kids and Families
Blog: My Little Nomads - 19 May 2010
A detailed guide to staying healthy while traveling, routine and recommended vaccines, and where and when to get vaccinated.READ MORE AT: Travel Vaccinations for Kids and Families Most popular post: The 5 Best Greek Islands for Kids and Families Most emailed post: A Cancun Family Vacation — Things To Do with Kids
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Santiago Chile and arriving in Buenos Aires
Blog: Trip Down - 18 May 2010
After leaving Valparaiso in the rain and driving the short express route I arrived in Santiago easily and checked into the ChileInn. The two ladies who run the place insisted my bike would make it through the 3 sets of doors into the courtyard – they were right, even though I bumped the television and [...]
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First Rains on Shaky Ground
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 18 May 2010
Things have settled down in Chile – somewhat. At least once a week there’s another strong “réplica”, or aftershock, that gives people jelly-legs and sets off anxiety attacks. Buildings are being gutted and have their innards strewn on the sidewalks as they await new walls and roofs. The previous inhabitants of these retail or living spaces have taken up business under tarps on the street, and have taken up residence under tarps on the outskirts of the cities.
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Mexico v Chile
Blog: The Mexile - 17 May 2010
I’d picked out Chile as a force to be reckoned with at the World Cup in an earlier post, and despite yesterday’s slightly lame showing I’m going to stick with that tip. Friendlies just aren’t the same thing as a competitive World Cup game. I’m not the only one who thinks so, mind you. Tim Vickery [...]
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The sound of rain in Santiago (and everywhere)
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 14 May 2010
What is it about rainy days that brings back every rainy day I've ever heard? The pattapattapatta on the flashing on my building sounds like rainy days at college where under the metal roof I sat bundled on my futon (convincing myself that this was comfortable, oh! youth) reading theoretical linguistics. It sounds like sleeping in a tent in Iceland, thinking about how going to the bathroom meant going outside, which meant getting wet, which meant just going back to sleep and ignoring it.
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Conservative Mendoza to Dilapidated, Intellectual Valparaiso
Blog: Trip Down - 14 May 2010
I don’t think I saw anything at all really of Mendoza. I drove into it at night and left it in the morning. I didn’t find the people as friendly as other places in Argentina but I’m sure it was worth at least two nights stay. However, now that I’ve booked a flight (Buenos Aires [...]
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Top 5 Safety Tips Americans and other Westerners need to know NOW before traveling to a third world country.
Blog: Backpacking on the Cheap - 13 May 2010
When traveling / backpacking, it is important to note that not all third world countries have the same dangers to watch out for, but here are some that apply to most. 5) PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL BOUNDARIES Severe poverty can bring out real desperation in people, which means that in the poorer countries, people will push [...]
