Category: Travel
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California Pacific Coast
Sea elephants everywhere. National parks. Rocky coast. COFFEE! Cupcakes… Donuts. Many small shops with homemade pies and fresh fruit and vegetables. Napa valley: mixture of Tuscany and Bordeaux. Wine and olive oil tasting, picnic with italian cheese and salami.
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San Francisco
After a long pause we have decided to revive the blog for our holiday to the States. For Marco it’s not only holiday, as he will be attending a conference as well. Therefore, to put it in the words of the Dutch customs police, “she’ll be spending the money you’ll be earning there” 🙂 We’ll…
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Gallery
After one and a half months of trepidation and suspense… here is the photo gallery! We have worked quite a bit on those: We had about 1300 photos shot in RAW with the brand new Nikon D600. After careful selection, we were still at 214 photos! Every one of them was slightly post processed (exposure,…
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Back to Santiago
This is probably going to be the last post from our travel (unless we get bored in the airport). The last days were quite full, we travelled a lot and visited many new places on our way back to Puerto Montt. Pucon was our first stop. It used to be called “backpackers paradise” but we…
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Lake district and Araucanía
After leaving our friends in Puerto Montt we drove further north to Puerto Octay, a small (german) town at one of the lakes found in this region. We stayed at a beautiful B&B with view to the volcano Osorno. …which we tried to climb up… but with more than 30º C, no shadow and lots…
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Chiloe
We’ve been visiting Chiloe for the last three days and we find it fantastic. It is the second biggest island of Chile after Tierra del Fuego, very green and incredibly different from anything we’ve seen in Chile so far. We arrived in Puerto Montt on the 14th, took a rental car and drove to Ancud,…
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Relax in Punta Arenas
The last two days in Punta Arenas were a good way to recharge our batteries and walk around without haste. We stayed in a nice B&B owned by a US-Chilean couple. We walked around in the city and visited a museum which finally cleared up our doubts about the indigenous populations of Patagonia and Tierra…
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Puerto Natales
After 3 days of camping in Torres del Paine we arrived in Puerto Natales. We were lucky with the weather in the national park – only yesterday night it was raining and windy as I haven’t had it before. Puerto Natales is the only city (which you can actually call city) besides Punta Arenas in…
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Glacier Lago Grey
Just a short post, we are at the Lago Grey in the National Park of Torres del Paine, and we’re about to take a boat tour to the glacier. The sceneries are amazing, the weather is good but very windy, and our legs are hurting from the 8 hours hike of yesterday. More from us…
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From Punta Arenas to Tierra del Fuego
On the 5th January we took our rental car and drove as far south as we could. We got as far as 100 km south of Punta Arenas, just after Punta San Juan. Unusually good weather allowed us to enjoy beautiful sceneries (photos when we’re back). In the afternoon we went to the Zona Franca…