We left Argentina for the last time, the tenth time we have crossed the Argentine border, and entered Chile at the Paso de Jama mountain pass. The border post is at 4,200 metres above sea …
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Valparaíso – Funiculars and Street Art
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Valparaíso, Chile’s most enigmatic city, sits on the Pacific Ocean and grew up as a key centre of the international shipping business, however it went into decline following the opening of the Panama Canal which …
Continue readingSantiago de Chile – Final Thoughts
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At 07.14 in the morning as we were getting ready to leave Santiago, Chile experienced in world terms a large earthquake, some 6.2 on the Richter Scale. The epicentre was at Punitaqui some 400 kms …
Continue readingSantiago de Chile – Centre of Chile
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Chile’s capital city of nearly seven million dominates the country with nearly 40% of Chile’s population, sits in a big bowl surrounded on all sides by the Andes mountains that protect it from the Pacific …
Continue readingPucón – Smoking Volcano
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On Easter Sunday we headed North out of Bariloche through the picturesque Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi, with its autumnal colours and attractive lake and mountain backdrop on our journey back into Chile. The border crossing …
Continue readingIn Patagonia!
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The journey North from Ushuaia, took us back across Tierra del Fuego and a repeat visit to the famous bakery at Tolhuin to pick up supplies on our journey North. After passing through the border …
Continue readingTierra del Fuego – The End of The World
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From Torres del Paine we carried on down South to Ushuaia, the most Southerly permanent settlement in the World on the Island of Tierra del Fuego. The border between Argentina and Chile at the Southern …
Continue readingTorres del Paine – The W Walk
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Into Chile our first destination was the awesome Torres del Paine National Park, the location for four days trekking on the W Walk, a trek shaped like the letter W that goes up and down …
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