Thursday 12th November 2015 I said good-bye to Helene, Aurelie and Laetitia in the morning. It was really cool to travel with them and know them for a few days, it really felt like meeting old friends again, such a cool feeling. Hey girls, you have to come to Australia, don´t forget!! 😀 Here is the … More Pucon to San Martin de los Andes
Wednesday 11th November 2015 With Helene, Aurelie and Laetitia, we woke up at 6am, got ready and had some brekky, eating apple, tangerine, some cereal bars. Then we were at 6.45am at Summit Chile, 100 meters away from the hostel. There, we were given a backpack. We unpacked our small bag and started organising the bigger … More Reopening the Villarica volcano ascent!
Tuesday 10th November 2015 Here is the Villarica volcano and an Araucania tree while walking on the main street O`Higgings, heading towards the backery. Here is the bakery where we bought croissants, bread, ham, cheese with Helene to make sandwiches for the day. We headed to the local bus stop where we met with Aurelie … More Huerquehue National Park
Monday 9th November 2015 Pucon means “entrance to the mountains” in the Mapuche language and that is really what it is! It is located in Araucania which is the northern region of Patagonia. Patagonia in some books is delimited in 5 regions: Araucania, Lake District, Central Patagonia, Southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Here is … More Pucon
Sunday 8th November 2015 evening Once upon a time there was a man with a dream. His name was Orelie-Antoine de Tounens. He was French and his dream was to become the King of Patagonia. He first spent 2 years in Santiago and Valparaiso and in 1860 he met Mapuche people, traced the borders of … More Patagonia is calling!
I am gonna have to do something I don`t really like doing which is writing a short article summarising very lightly all the incredible places I have been the past week. At some point, hopefully, I`ll get some more time to write more about each of these places which are each truly amazing in their own … More Iguazu Buenos Aires Mendoza Santiago Valparaiso
Wednesday 14th October 2015 I said good-bye to my parents who were off at 8am to the airport of Calama for a plane at 11am to Santiago and then they would start going down south to Patagonia! We had spent 10 days travelling together in one of the most beautiful landscape of this world that … More San Pedro de Atacama to Calama
Tuesday 13th October 2015 Here is the second cat of the hostel, hanging out on the roof in the morning to warm itself up. We got picked up around 8.30am and shoot off. There was a great atmosphere in the mini-van. There were 6 Brazilians and we were 7 French people, a couple the age … More Salar de Tara
Monday 12th October 2015 We started the day early with a 6am pick-up in this funny big bus truck. Everyone slept most of the way, the sun woke up, here was a bit of the landscape we saw outside of the window. First, we saw Laguna Miscanti. After all the pretty lakes we had seen … More Altiplano Lagunas and Valle de la Luna
Sunday 11th October 2015 We chilled out all day and I published a few blog articles I had prepared during the no-WiFi nights in the desert. I also finally got myself onto Trip Advisor to leave a few reviews about hostels, trips, dives, and so on! In the evening, we boarded a mini-bus full of … More Learning about the night sky with Alain Maury
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