Travelogues Chile

It’s incredible how quickly time has passed here, and yet when I think back to the day of my departure, it feels like an eternity. Nonetheless, I had the chance to experience so...

What started as a planned week turned into two weeks in Iquique! On one hand, because I really enjoyed the north of Chile, but also because there were severe storms in La Serena...

I've been in Chile for over a month now. I've been working for a month and have fully settled into life here. I know exactly which bus to take where, how to get to the sea the...

Late in the evening, we took the bus to Santiago, but thank God I won't be staying there long. We then continued right to the airport and from there to the north of Chile. At the...

...after a spectacular sunset we headed to the 'El Tatio' geysers on 23.04.26, to a lagoon with flamingos, to warm springs for bathing, and into the cactus valley...

15.04-16.04. Valparaiso 17.04.-19.04. Santiago In Valparaiso, we stayed in a very nice hostel, listened to Cumbia, and spent a day waiting 6 hours for the police because a...

Contrary to our original plan, we decided not to travel to Ushuaia. Since we currently want to avoid intercontinental flights, the distances here are really far, plus we have a...

I've been in Chile for over a month now. I've been working for a month and have fully settled into life here. I know exactly which bus to take where, how to get to the sea the...

Everyone knows about Easter Island. There are so many photos one has seen. However, it is different than expected. The Moai (the large stone figures) truly are impressive and...

The Deutschlandfunk referred to the National Cemetery in a report as the City of the Dead in Santiago. It covers 86 hectares, making it as large as an entire city district, and...

On our first full day in Santiago, we booked a local, full-day tour. We traveled to the coastal towns that are especially popular vacation and weekend spots for the capital's...

Torres del Paine is an absolute must on any trip to Patagonia, and we had been dreaming of it long before. Unfortunately, we had known for a while that we could only enjoy the...

Hola Chile, du heisst irgendwie fast so, wie du aussiehst :). Obschon ich mittlerweile schon ein paar Wochen auf (wandernd, fahrend), über (fliegend/ fallend) oder in/unter dir...

Selkirk Island is located next to Robinson Crusoe Island and is significantly smaller.

Today we embarked on various excursions. Maria joined a guided hike. Tommy first went on a submarine tour to a German shipwreck from World War I (the Dresden) and then took two...

At exactly 11:00, we were picked up from our hotel by our chauffeur and were able to quickly head to the port of San Antonio. San Antonio is located about 100 km west of...

Santiago, the capital of Chile, is located in a valley in the Andes and is about 120 road kilometers from the sea. The valley's situation, combined with the exhaust from heavy...

After finally making the leap from Santiago, it was time to head further north. A whole 1,600 km. San Pedro de Atacama would be the destination. A small town in the middle of...

Arrival Before I even got to know Argentina properly, I was already heading to the next country in South America: Chile 🇨🇱 The journey began on Saturday evening at the bus...

(Sorry, most of the photos are on my phone (see below), and trying to load them onto the PC from 'travel internet' is hopeless.) Puerto Natales The arrival in Puerto Natales...

We were in Fireland. We need to correct our statement in the last blog: Fireland has an Argentine side, but also a Chilean one. On the Chilean side lives a colony of king...

Arrived! This has been our longest journey so far: we traveled for 22 hours. Here it is warm and light until around 9 PM - just summer ;-) Santiago de Chile is just as we...

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We are still completely immersed in the wonder of Easter Island. Today, we learned quite a bit more about Easter Island. Starting in the second half of the 17th century, the...

Today we went on the long excursion to Cajón del Maipo. It started shortly after 6:00 AM and took us to a reservoir (El Yeso Dam) and a glacier in the Andes (the Cordillera)....

From Valparaíso, we continued along the Pacific coast to La Serena, a colonial city founded by the Spaniards, which had to assert itself against indigenous people, pirates, and...

After so much love for home, we were ready for the jump to Santiago - on a very comfortable Flixbus overnight. We were initially pleased with the much cheaper ticket prices...

My fans complain that I write too little... Well, I complain that only a few people read our posts! If this post doesn't get 'liked' by at least 10 people, my next post will...

Long time no see - you may be wondering why we haven't written a blog post since our hike on the O-Track. The answer is that on any long journey, there are unforeseen and...

Post 15 - The northernmost tip of Chile. Lots of desert and sea. And a trip to the highlands of Putre. Then back to Peru!