South America
Chile is a very long, thin country on the west coast of South America, 25 times longer than it is wide, and covering a whopping 2,600 miles. As a result of its topography, the Chile you experience in the north, is very different to the Chile you experience in the middle, or south of the...
Many trips to Chile start with a stopover in Santiago, the main airport hub of this long, thin country on the western coast of South America. Sometimes referred to as the ‘Paris of South America’, Santiago is an attractive city located in a valley surrounded by mountains and full of...
Unaware of Conguillio National Park (Parque Nacional Conguillio) before researching our road trip through the Chilean Lake District, this park kept coming up as a traveller favourite, not least because of its ancient Araucaria (Monkey Puzzle) forests. Having had a fascination with these...
Pucon is one of Chile’s main resort destinations, sitting in an enviable position on a beautiful lake against a backdrop of Chile’s most active volcano. In fact, Pucon is known by the Mapuche as ‘Gateway to the mountains’ and in the summer months, there are queues of cars crawling...
Whilst travelling, I love a destination with good wildlife spotting opportunities and a recent visit to Valdivia in Chile did not disappoint. To see enormous South American, or Patagonian Sea Lions, right in the middle of the city was unexpected, but very welcome. So, if you love...
For any watchers of the BBC TV Series Race Across The World, you may have seen the beautiful lakeside town of Frutillar, Chile, featured in Series 2 of the Celebrity version. It was this episode which made me want to visit. So, when driving from Valdivia to Puerto Varas on our Chilean...