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Travel (5)

Iquique, Chile (Post #113)

April 28th, 2006

Mike writes…

Well, we haven´t been very good about keeping up with the blogs lately — we´ve been incredibly busy and it doesn´t look like things will slow down for the rest of the trip. So, our readers should only expect a blog every 7-10 days now.

Anyway, late in the evening of April 26 we left San Pedro on an overnight bus to Iquique, Chile. We had previously sworn to never do the overnight bus thing again but we had heard such great things about the cama (bed) and semi-cama (reclining seat to about 45 degrees) that we figured we´d try it out. Furthermore, we are running out of time in South America so we are trying to save it wherever possible. Unfortunately, the ride sucked and we only managed 2-3 hours of sleep. I don´t have time to go into the details right now because we have to leave Iquique on a bus bound for Arica in just one hour.

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Puerto Varas, Chile (Post #109)

April 28th, 2006

Michele here…way behind on the blogs due to super slow connections in some of the small towns we´ve been in Chile. So, where did we last leave off with our blogs? Oh yea, after hanging out in Puerto Natalas for a few days in the far (very cold) south of Chile, on April 16th, we caught a (3 hour) morning bus from Puerto Natalas to the larger town of Punta Arenas and then flew north to Puerto Montt. Once we landed in Puerto Montt, we took a bus to the central bus station and then transfered to another bus that was going to the town of Puerto Varas where we planned to stay for 3 nights.

Puerto Varas is a small town with a big church up on a hill. Here is a photo of the church at dusk on the night of Easter:

The town of Puerto Varas sits on Lago (Lake) Llanquihue with Volcano Osorno in the background. This picture was taken on the best day we had in terms of the weather. This is Mike with his crazy man look with the lake and volcano in the background.

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Torres del Paine, Chile – Day 3 (Post #108)

April 15th, 2006

Mike writes…

On Wednesday April 12, I woke up before the sun was up (there was a good amount of light but i couldn´t see the sun itself for the mountains) and wanted to go check around for sunrise foto ops. Michele who had not slept well due to the critters scurrying around our tent, couldn´t bring herself to get up so early. I took a walk along a nearby trail that I later learned leads the whole way back to park administration. I was set on getting video of the sunrise but after standing on a hillside being blown about by some more incredible winds (which now seem quite common in this part of Chile), for about 20 minutes, i got tired of waiting. I went back to the tent and found Michele was still sleeping. I got her up so we could go eat some breakfast and after we had our instant oatmeals, she actually returned to her sleeping bag for a nap.

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Torres del Paine, Chile – Day 2 (Post #107)

April 15th, 2006

Michele here…writing about day 2 (April 11th) in Torres del Paine National Park.

We got up on our second day before sunrise and started gathering firewood to make a fire. As we were gathering wood, I stopped and took a few photos of the sun just before it came up over the horizon. Everything about Torres del Paine National Park is beautiful – even the sunrises! See for yourself:

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Torres Del Paine, Chile – Day 1 (Post #106)

April 15th, 2006

Mike writes…

We left the pueblo of Puerto Natales at 7:15 a.m. on Monday the 10th of April in a van headed for Parque Nacional Torres del Paine. The van trip to the park entrance took us about 2.5 hours and after we arrived at the entrance we waited about 30 minutes for the transfer van to Refugio Torres (the Refuge and campsite at the base of the trail to los torres (the towers)). Once we arrived at the refuge, we hired our tent, sleeping bags and pads. We were greatful that our tent was already set up. Well, it should have been because we were told that it would be. Does anyone really enjoy setting up a tent? Anyhow, after dropping our big packs down inside the tent and securing them with a lock inside the bigger of our duffle bags, we quickly headed out with our daypacks to find the start of the trail up to the towers.

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Santiago to Puerto Natales, Chile (Post #105)

April 15th, 2006

Hola!

Michele here…just want to give an update on our travels from Santiago to Puerto Natales, Chile between April 6th and April 10th.

Since arriving in Santiago, Chile on April 6th, we had been moving around a lot until recently when we decided to just chill out in Puerto Natales for a few days. We got into Santiago late on April 6th and spent the entire day on April 7th running errands. We accomplished a lot and enjoyed running around the streets of downtown Santiago. The downtown area is very pedestrian friendly with most of the streets closed off to traffic. For this reason, it has sort of a European feel to it especially when you spot a musician or band playing in front of a crowd of people. However, you know you are not in a European city because only Spanish is spoken here (although I suppose you could be somewhere in Spain). Anyway, my point being that gone are the days of us getting by on English. All of our communication with people is now in Spanish.

The morning after our one full day in Santiago (on April 8th) we walked to the bus station in the dark a.m. hour where we boarded a bus going to the airport. At one of the bus stops a ticket inspector came aboard the bus and checked everyone´s tickets. This is generally the way it works outside the U.S. The bus driver has nothing to do with you buying a bus ticket. He is responsible for driving the bus and you are responsible for obtaining a ticket. A ticket inspector makes random stops on different bus routes and you better have a ticket or else you will be heavily fined. Anyway, we arrived at the airport within about 30 minutes and checked in for our flight to Punta Arenas, Chile. The flight from Santiago to Chile´s most southern city, Punta Arenas, was fairly uneventful except for the fact that we had to get out of the runway line and go back to the gate so that a technical problem could be fixed. Some time later, we took off and arrived in Punta Arenas where we took a bus from the airport to the downtown area. We had a small map and found our hospedaje. A hospedaje is a person´s house that you can stay in. Although breakfast is included, it is different from a bed and breakfast in that you are sharing the kitchen, bathroom, living room, etc. with the person or family that lives there. We stayed only one night in Punta Arenas. The next morning (April 9th), we took a bus north for 3 hours to Puerto Natales, Chile.

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Update: maps (originally post #71)

April 15th, 2006

After being behind on the mapping for the past couple of weeks, we´re now all caught up to the 15th of April.

Mike

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Our Reading List (ongoing post)

April 15th, 2006

Mike writes…

Certainly we spend a lot of our “free” time on trains, planes, busses and boats reading our guidebooks for the upcoming destinations but we have been doing some recreational reading as well — i more than Michele (mostly because i’m lazy and let her do 90% of the travel planning).

It all started with Dan Brown’s ‘The DaVinci Code’ which i broke down and bought when we were in Malta. I had heard so much about this book but had the attitude that because it was so popular, i would forever refuse to read it. When i was in the bookstore, the choices were limited and after about an hour of deliberation, i bought the thing for some insane price like $16USD. It turned out, once i started reading it, i absolutely could not put it down. In fact, i would just about sneak away to read it whenever i could. Anyway, this experience made me realize what a great escape reading novels (or other pleasure books) can be from some of the stresses of travelling. So, i’ve been making a short story long. The purpose of this post is merely to provide a running list of the books we’ve been reading. We expect to update this post as we read more…

Mike’s list:
‘The DaVinci Code’ — Dan Brown
‘Red Dragon’ — Thomas Harris
‘Angels and Demons’ — Dan Brown
‘The Summons’ — John Grisham (this book was given to me by our friends Martin and Marijke who were on Safari with us in Tanzania)
‘Dracula’ — Bram Stoker
‘Rama II’ — Arthur C. Clark
‘The Search for Schrodinger’s Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality’ — John Gribbin
‘The Beach’ — Alex Garland
‘Communion: A True Story’ — Whitley Striber
‘Off the Rails in Phnom Penh: Into the Dark Heart of Guns, Girls and Ganja’ — Amit Gilboa

‘Phantoms’ — Dean Koontz

sometimes currently reading ‘Prelude to Foundation” — Isaac Asimov

Michele’s list:
‘The DaVinci Code’ — Dan Brown
‘Emma’s War’ — Deborah Scroggins
‘The Beach’ — Alex Garland
‘A People’s History of the Viet Nam War’ — Jonathan Neale

‘Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia’ — Jean P. Sasson
aborted reading of ‘Voices from S-21’ – David Chandler and not presently reading for pleasure

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Easter Island, Chile – Part 3 (Post #104)

April 7th, 2006

Mike writes (with Michele looking over his shoulder)…

Yesterday, April 6, we flew from Easter Island to Santiago, Chile where we are now. We have spent the day so far (it’s 3 p.m.) running errands. One of those was having the photos from one of our dives developed and burned onto a CD. We don’t have a lot to say but we wanted to post pictures from one of our dives and the view from above the site.

While on Easter Island we did four dives over two days. The first dive, on the morning of Monday the 3rd, was just by the town of Hanga Roa in the bay while the second, in the afternoon, was at the more challenging Motus. The following day we did two more dives. One was in the morning at a place called Te Peu “the pyramid” which was a reef formed like a pyramid. The dive at the pyramid was our deepest to date at 30m or around 100ft. I rented and underwater camera for our fourth and final dive which, much to our great pleasure was to be at the Motus (again). We consider the Motus to be our absolute favorite dive site in our short diving careers. Taking photos underwater is quite difficult. Most of our photos suffer from parallax error which is a mis-alignment of the viewfinder with the lens and/or apeture.

Anyway, on to the photos…

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Easter Island, Chile – Part 2 (Post #103)

April 5th, 2006

Mike writes…

After a great full-day tour with our guide Elizabeth on Saturday, we thought we would see some of the other sites on our own Sunday. After our great breakfast at the Tekena Residencial late sunday morning, we set on a hike along the coast towards the volcano at Orongo about 5km east of the Hanga Roa village. A pamphlet provided by the tourist office in town guided us through several signposted sights along the way including the airport which has a 5km long runway. Originally, the runway was much shorter however at some point the U.S. convinced the Easter Islanders to lengthen it to accommodate the Space Shuttle in case of an emergency landing.

Though there are not many trees on Easter Island, along the base of the volcano, we passed through a forest of introduced trees including Eucalyptus and Cypress. We really enjoyed our hike which, at times, reminded us of a 50mile run we did to Mt. Hood along the PCT in Oregon, U.S. Here is a photo we took from a spot shortly after the forest of introduced trees. About mid-photo it is possible to see the town of Hanga Roa (the only one on the island).

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