Tag: Chiloe
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The boat to Melinka
Our next adventure in Chile began on Christmas eve when we drove to Quellón, Chiloe after fixing the battery of our van. Quellón is the port city where we boarded the ship Don Baldo, which transported all of us plus the van over to the island of Melinka. Nuestra siguiente aventura en Chile comenzo el…
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Parks and sunsets in Chiloe
On our second day in Castro, we headed to the national park located in a nearby town called Cucao. Chiloe itself is a big island and it hosts two gigantic, bright blue lakes lined with stony beaches: Lago Cucao and Lago Huillinco. The national park is between the lakes and the coast, about an hour…
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Visiting Dalcahue, Chiloe
On our first day in Castro we drove to a town nearby called Dalcahue. The Castro locals told us that the best “feria artesanal,” or craft fair, was in Dalcahue on Sundays and we happened to be there on Sunday, lucky us. It’s summer here but in the south it’s colder than in Santiago, so…
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Roadtripping to the South of Chile
On the day we arrived in Chile, we drove to Osorno and finally arrived at Javier’s aunt and uncles house ‘s 5 in the morning. His aunt and uncle have a beautiful home with a brand new back patio furnished with an outdoor grill that Javier studied for about an hour so he could learn…