We spend several days in the Atacama desert, doing daytrips with our rental car and staying in a cabaña, just before the corona crisis hit Chile.
The Atacama desert had been at the top of our todo list for Chile since the beginning, and this showed in the number of days we booked there - six. This was twice the time
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9 days, 4 flights, 8 flight cancellations. How to return from Chile to Belgium during a global pandemic. Certainly not recommended for the faint of heart.
Our last stop in Chile was the Atacama desert. But it was while we were having a merry old time watching llamas prancing about and flamingos dancing around that the Coronavirus pandemic brought things toppling
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The Reserva Nacional Pingüino de Humboldt may be a bit off the beaten path for many Chile itineraries, but it proves well worth the effort of going.
Visiting the Choros Islands was one of our highlights of Chile. It was a bit of a punt, though, and we didn't know whether we'd make it as boats don't always run, and there is
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Santiago turns out to be the first big city in which we regret not spending more time, and we learn that living in Valparaíso allows you to skip leg day.
After dropping our hire car in Talca we walked back to the bus station, firmly backpackers again. We needed to book a couple of long-distance buses for the north of Chile, including one across the
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We go for some carmenère tasting and fine dining in Chile’s Colcugua Valley.
For our second wine tasting session (the first was back in Mendoza in Argentina) we hired a car rather than doing a day tour. (more…)
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After missing out on a hire car, we rethink our stay in Pucon and shorten it to a hike in Parque Nacional Huerquehue and a visit to Termas Geometricas.
To get from Puerto Varas to Pucon we took a 6-hour Cruz del Sur bus to Temuco, then had 5 hours to kill on the outskirts of town before a 2-hour ride to Pucon. The
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We enter Chile by bus to Puerto Varras, a town with a German heritage, and use it as a base to visit Parque Nacional Vicente Perez Rosales.
The Austrians we’d met on our La Payunia tour told us that Puerto Montt was ugly and instead we should go to Puerto Varas, so that was where we made our first stop in Chile
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To break up our bus journey from Mendoza to San Carlos de Bariloche, we take a bus trip to La Payunia, a park with hundreds of volcanoes.
When we’d had enough steak and wine in Mendoza, we started planning how to get to our next destination, Bariloche. It turned out that it was nightbus or bust to get there, and that the
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We piece together Argentina’s myriad bus options to make our way from Puerto Iguazu to Cordoba.
We spent hours – really, hours – trying to decide how to get out of Puerto Iguazu. We’d only planned the first week of our trip (beach – city – waterfalls, please) and had decided
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Our one week experience in Brazil summarised.
We started our 6-month South America trip in the south-western corner of Brazil, mainly because the flight connection to Sao Paulo Guaralhos airport worked best for us. As we’re not big city people we skipped
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