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Street art: free expression or vandalism?
Blog: everthenomad - 11 May 2010
Inspired by Banksy's brilliant film Exit Through the Gift Shop that I saw last week, I am devoting this post to political acts of art around the world.
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Vizcacha (or Viscacha) – looks like a Rabbit, but related to a Rat
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 6 May 2010
The Vizcacha (or Viscacha) is an unusual looking Rabbit looking Rat thing that hops around the Atacama desert, over and under rocks. They usually occur at high altitudes, where the thin air starts playing tricks with your head. Here’s a Vizcacha trying to escape the gaze of my camera. If you visit Lauca National Park, (Parque Nacional Lauca) in far northern [...]Vizcacha (or Viscacha) – looks like a Rabbit, but related to a Rat is a post from:
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San Pedro De Atacama to Salta Argentina
Blog: Trip Down - 6 May 2010
After the rain finally stopped in Ollague on the Chilean-Bolivian border I left on a sunny morning for the drive through the Atacama Desert (one of the driest places on earth) to San Pedro De Atacama, Chile. San Pedro is an oasis in the desert that is quite overly touristy. Before arriving in town I [...]
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Miners as KLR650 mechanics in Ollague, Chile
Blog: Trip Down - 4 May 2010
I awoke to the sound of rain falling on the fiberglass roof. Stiff from yesterday’s marathon ride from Uyuni I entered the hotel’s dining room already full of miners sitting in the half-darkness. Electricity apparently is only available from dusk until sometime in the early morning. Grumpily I accepted the offered breakfast of stale bread, [...]
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Cultured Santiago and Unesco Valparaiso
Blog: Mood to Travel - 4 May 2010
Crowd, Plaza De Armas, Santiago [Enlarge]
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Failing in the Salt Flats (Salar de Uyuni) and crossing to Ollague, Chile
Blog: Trip Down - 2 May 2010
After leaving La Paz mid-morning I arrived at a hot-springs hotel that had been suggested to me by Phillip (a German driving a Land Cruiser around S.A.) as a way to avoid staying in Oruro (a “shithole” in his words). I didn’t spend the extra $25 to have a room with a private hotspring so [...]
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8 Fantastic days on Easter Island, Chile
Blog: Mood to Travel - 29 April 2010
It took us over 30 hours to get to Easter Island from New Zealand, via Santiago, but we did not lose a day while travelling. In fact we arrived just after we left; it was like we’d gone back in time thanks to the International Date Line. It was a fitting journey to Easter Island having travelled back in time, as it added to the island’s mystery.
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Wait! There Are No Checks on This Checklist!
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 24 April 2010
4/14/10: Santiago, Chile Things we didn’t bother to do before heading out to catch our 10:15 bus to Mendoza this morning: Check to make sure we knew where the bus station was. Print out our tickets that we had bought online from Andesmar five days earlier. Excuses for not bothering to do those things which [...]
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Some Moai and a Sunset…Two Bits
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 22 April 2010
4/12/10: Easter Island We came to Easter Island with what we thought was a pretty large stash of food: 16 chewy chocolate chip granola bars, six chocolate chip cereal bars, six fruit and yogurt cereal bars, one package of spaghetti, two packages of spaghetti sauce, three cans of tuna, six apples, three pears, three peaches [...]
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Our Very First Easter JPEG Hunt
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 21 April 2010
4/11/10: Easter Island The travel gods have really smiled on us during our time here on Easter Island, because for the fourth day in a row we woke up to nothing but gorgeous blue skies, warm weather and of course, another Reds victory! So for the fourth day in a row, we set out after [...]
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Another Scooter-rific Day
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 20 April 2010
4/10/10: Easter Island Z: I think I’ll write today’s post about how I kept referring to our scooter as “Scooter Patooter.” K: Oh god. Z: Do you think we’ll lose readership because of it? K: DON’T DO IT. Sigh. Kevin puts such a damper on my great ideas. Well then, I’ll leave out the scooter [...]
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Despite What You Think, It’s Not Easy to Make My Top Three
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 19 April 2010
4/9/10: Easter Island I casually asked Zhou last night where the day ranked in the grand scheme of our trip. Top 3? Top 5? Top 10? After some thought, she replied that it was in the Top 5. What? That’s a travesty! Yesterday was without a doubt one of the best three days on the [...]
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My Childhood Dreams in Real Life
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 18 April 2010
4/8/10: Easter Island While Kevin may have learned about Easter Island from his seventh grade report, I first discovered it because Carmen Sandiego was once there. It was only one episode, and I think it was about 15 years ago, but it was just one of those things that has really stuck with me from [...]
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On Easter I Land on Easter Island…
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 17 April 2010
4/7/10: Easter Island … That’s what people who arrived on this island were probably saying to themselves two days ago. Us? We’re just saying, “Holy crap, we’re on Easter Island!” One of my fondest memories of middle school was the report I did on Easter Island in the seventh grade. I remember it so well [...]
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Directions to the Valparaiso Bus Station
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 16 April 2010
4/6/10: Valparaiso, Chile Walk through the park. Think about sitting down but decide against it because the ground is dirty. Instead, stand awkwardly for a few minutes while watching two dogs roll in the grass. Eat some sour gummies. Look for a place to eat lunch. Settle on a greasy looking cafe and have very [...]
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Whoa-i Moai
Blog: Seth of the Equator - 16 April 2010
I'm writing this from the Santiago airport, waiting for my flight back to Buenos Aires after spending the last three days on the island of Rapa Nui, more commonly known as Easter Island. If there was any concern I'd be jaded about travel after the last three months, it was quickly dismissed. You're most likely to know Easter Island as the site of giant stone heads (called "moai")*, and they do feature prominently. I was thrilled to discover, however, that the island brings so much more to the table.
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Discover Adventure in San Pedro de Atacama Chile
Blog: Two Backpackers - 15 April 2010
San Pedro de Atacama is an adventure town located in Chile’s Northern Salt Mountains and is an extreme desert environment. The landscape is very picturesque with snow capped mountains in the distance and desert valleys that glow orange when the sun sets. Tourists flock to San Pedro to see pink flamingos in the salt flat basin, [...]
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Pictures Described by About 25 Words
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 15 April 2010
4/5/10: Santiago, Chile Today we took the funicular up to the top of Cerro San Cristobal. I personally thought it was great, but that in itself doesn’t make for a good story does it? This actually brings me to a blogging second: I really enjoyed the day today and want you to experience a piece [...]
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Right Foot Green, Left Tusk Red
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 14 April 2010
4/4/10: Santiago, Chile I’m trying to make room on my resume for a new line that goes something like this: Prominently featured on worldwide phenomenon television show THE AMAZING RACE. Now I’m not sure how copyrights work when pasting screenshots of television shows in a wildly popular blog, but I am sure that CBS never [...]
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It’s Warm – No Wait, It’s Chile!
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 13 April 2010
4/4/10: Santiago, Chile After our last bus fiasco which ended up with us out on the mean streets of Perito Moreno at 4am, I decided I’d had enough. “We’re booking cama the next overnight bus we take, I don’t care how much it costs!” So when we were booking our tickets for last night’s ride from [...]
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Uno Hot Dog = One Hot Dog
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 12 April 2010
4/3/10: Osorno, Chile K: Do you want to sit with the bags while I go order? Z: Sure, that works. Hindsight being 20/20 like it is, I should have responded, “well then, make yourself comfortable because it’s going to be a half hour before I get back.” (Side note: I don’t really understand the phrase, “hindsight is 20/20.” [...]
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Discover Arica, Chile
Blog: Two Backpackers - 8 April 2010
Arica was the first town we arrived to in Chile coming from the north. After researching our Lonely Planet Guide, it was a last minute decision that had us headed to Arica. The description of what we could find in Chile’s Altiplano was enticing: town of Putre, Lauca National Park, Salar de Surire or Surire [...]
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Velvet moments: travel photo of the week – Valle de la Luna
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 7 April 2010
Valley of the Moon, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Read the accompanying post ‘A desert full of wonders‘ See other Velvet moments: Bora Bora, French Polynesia Serengeti, Tanzania Sacred Water Temple, Bali, Indonesia Masaai Mara, Kenya Iguazu Falls, Brazil/Argentina Positano, Italy Buenos Aires, Argentina Seminyak, Indonesia Lang Tengah island, Malaysia Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina The Great Ocean Road, Australia Angkor Wat, Cambodia Laguna Chaxa, Chile
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Torres del Paine Sunrise – Short Clip 3
Blog: Two Backpackers - 6 April 2010
The three towers stand as the icon of Patagonia Chile and attract tourists from all over the world. Some come to earn the right to watch the sunrise over the towers by trekking the complete Torres del Paine Circuit, while others come for one day only. The Torres del Paine National Park has something for [...]
