Blogs from Pichilemu, O Higgins, Chile, South America - page 2

I got up early on Wednesday because I wanted to run before we left but I didn´t have time :( Christina´s host dad picked me up and took us to the bus station. We left for San Fernando at 10:40am from Concepcion. We knew we could take a bus from San Fernando or Rancagua to Pichilemu but that´s about all we knew. It took about 5 hours to get to San Fernando by bus. We hoped the bus would drop us off at a terminal but no such luck. We were literally dropped off by the side of the road. They told us that the bus station wasn´t too far and they told us where to walk so off we went. It was SO very HOT outside and walking was not fun. We were all over ... read more

Pichilemu is another of those surfing meccas. Ever heard of Punta De Lobos? No nor me, but anyway after 4 hours on the bus we were there. It was like a ghost town, with tumble weed and everything. Pilchilemu is kind of like a Chilean Barry Island. It has a huge beach, with dubious cleanliness and certainly will never win a blue flag award. It is a small town with penny arcades and fruit machines, straight out of the 1970s. It has about 30 empanda shops and chips shops that sell bags of chips in about 20 different sizes depending on how much you want to spend. There are lots of ramshackled run down holiday properties. We had booked into a surf hostel. It was right on the beach and newly built and every room had ... read more

Well we left Mark and Mary in New Zealand on the Morning of the 5th February to go to the airport in Christchurch. Everything seemed to go swimmingly and we touched down in Auckland at 11.30am to change flights to our 5.30pm flight to Santiago Chile. We had some time to kill, so grabbed some food, checked emails, read papers etc, until at about 4.30pm, our flight disappeared off the board. About 2.5hrs later, after much confusion, we were bussed off to a hotel for night courtesy of Lan Chile. We reckoned they didnt have enough people for the flight, and they had just cancelled it to put us on the flight the next day. Anyway, it all worked out well enough. We had been quite tired, and it was nice to have a big room, ... read more

went to vina!! alright there nice weather at first then, got cloudy! still nice place to stay!! not too many beggers there except weird gypo ladys that grabbed justin´s hand and started going on about some leaves, no idea what she was saying!!! it was a lot more expensive there, not the constant supply of 30p hotdogs like justin kept having in STA!! but still alot of panaderias, which sold pretty cheep bread!!! and nice bread!!! made the mistake of trying a completo absolute pill of shit!!! i really dont like avocado and they were packed with it!!! but took the whole day to move to pichilemu and just reminds me of cornwal, pretty chilled out, unlike cornwal unbelievably cheap!!! this random off hos face guy started talking to us on the beach and kept doing ... read more

Sabem como é o Oceano Pacifico? ( no chile) Agora está bem pacífico. É gelado. Cheira deliciosamente a mar e a algas(Cochaiullo, que os indigenas comiam e ainda se comem aqui) As cores mudam, como acontece com todos os mares. Agora esta com uns tons de azul petroleo ao fim do dia. Aqui tem lobos do mar e outros bichos que nunca vi em liberdade. Parece igual a todos os mares que vi. Parece igual ao oceano Atlantico. Mas nao é. Está do lado de cá e chama-se Pacifico e isso muda tudo. Nunca pensei que chegasse alguma vez a estar No Oceano Pacifico. ... read more