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1. Go to the most deserted place in the Carattera 2. Raise your finger 3. Wait 4. When it gets dark, build a tent (Pasta for dinner is recommended) 5. Wake up early to catch the morning rides (all those early waking truck drivers, there are lots you know...) 6. Realize there is car around you for at least 50km in every direction. 7. Get a bus back to where you started from so that you can leave the damn caraterra already. The Carratera Austral is a long road from the north of Chile to the lake district in central Chile. The road is bad, but is very beautiful. We thought about renting a car but the prices were high, and the fine of returning in a different place then the pickup was even higher. That ... read more

Punta Arenas is almost in the end of the world. We went to see penguins, sea lions and sea elephants. The main problem with this plan was the unpredictable weather. The animals are on two islands which are between the pacific and Atlantic ocean and thus the waves are somewhat unpredictable and could cause problems in reaching the islands. Luckly we ended up with great weather (tfu tfu tfu bli emunot tfelot) and reached the islands on a large speed boat (filled with mostly israelis of course - like everything here). The first island was Marta which was filled with sea lions and sea elefants on its shore and cormorants birds on its top. The noise was enormous. The next island was the Magdallena island which was covered with lots and lots of penguins (even more ... read more

On the 28th Yael landed and started her trip with me. I guess this blog now belongs to both of us :) On the following day we took the tour to Perito Moreno, the crashing glacier. We saw it from afar for 3 hours and waited for parts of it to fall into the water while eating sandwiches. When parts of the glacier crashed down we were usually late for the camera and no photograph was taken. It was however very impressive. Later that day we took a ferry to take a closer look at the glacier where we saw the parts crash down from a closer point of view, where we were told that about 30 people were previously killed by the ice falling down in the last 3 years (don't worry mom it was ... read more

We arrived to Pucon and went strait to the hostel of the israeli guy there - Gidon. He looks like a slick guy that will do anything for your money, but in fact he was very nice and helped us a lot. On the second day there we climbed the volcano Villarrica which was hard to do but the way down sliding on the snow in snow sleds was great and was worth the effort (not to mention the great view). The next day we left for the Villarrica Traverse trek. With the help of Gidon we arranged a car to take us to the start of the trek along with two other israelis (total of 5 guys). On the way there the two guys (Alon and Viko) remembered they forgot to move their flight schedule ... read more