Humboldt Penguin National Reserve Pisco Elqui Nevado Tres Cruces N. P. Bahia Inglesa Chañaral Pan de Azucar N. P. Atacama Desert, near...

Santiago today: Sunny, 94 degrees. We walked, and we walked, but it wasn’t too bad. In the shade it was breezy and comfortable, in the...

Quick post today. We made it to Santiago, where we’ll be over the next couple of days. We arrived in town at rush hour and to reach our...

I wanted to post this only because I’d like to stay on the schedule of posting every day or every other day but, although we’ve been to...

Goodbye Patagonia. Our first ferry (a 5-hour ride from Caleta Gonzalo to Pichicolo) left right on time at 5PM. At sunset, from our ferry...

Yesterday we took a long detour to the town of Futaleufu, claiming to be the world’s premiere river rafting destination. Not that either...

Turnaround time. We have decided that Puerto Tranquilo should be the furthest point south of our journey. Window view of the town from...

We last wrote from Puerto Aysen. It’s ironic that Terry, my sister-in-law, had made a comment on our last post about a salmon on sale in...

Let’s start with a bit of history. Chilean Patagonia was inhabited only by local indigenous people until the early 1900s. In 1935, Chile...

Let’s start with yesterday. We spent our last day in Puerto Varas and took the opportunity to go halfway up Volcan Osorno. What an...

Our drive to the most southern part of the region called Sur Chico took about four hours, mostly on a tollway. It led us to a town called...

I was able to get my phone fixed in the town of Villarrica, where we are currently housed. Lakeside in Villarica, with the ever-present...

We have run into a couple of difficulties. Nothing major, to reassure you, but the worst is possibly the fact that I have broken my cell...

We have begun our journey to the South of this extremely long country. Today’s journey brought us to a veritable Vineyard Haven. This is...

Yes, we are still alive. While you were enjoying our whirlwind, demanding trip to Bolivia, we were busy retracing our way back to Central...

The thought of waking up at 3:30am so that we could go see the sunrise two hours later was disturbing, especially considering how arduous...

After a sound night’s sleep, we started our day more refreshed, and start-time was not until 8 AM. But the best part was that we...

Man, what a day! This has been the most exhausting day to-date. Alarm at 5AM, pick up at the hotel at 5:50. We had to go through an...

We spent the entire day in town yesterday. This place has such a chill vibe; it makes you quickly realize why it has become so popular...

We left Iquique and took a different route south from the coastal one we had traveled on just a few days ago. Route 5, unlike Route 1,...