Having ruled-out a land journey south (it’s a long way!), we flew into Punta Arenas from Balmaceda airport, a 1 hour 20 minute flight on a ‘DAP Air’ aeroplane. I’d been here before in 1991 on work business – so…
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San Pedro De Atacama
After a brief overnight stop in Santiago, we continued north to stay near San Pedro de Atacama for a few days. On landing at the airport in Calama we encountered the heat of the desert, a bit of a shock…
Carretera Austral – Coyhaique to La Junta
The Carretera Austral is Chile’s Route 7, stretching from Puerto Montt to Villa O’Higgins, over 1200km further south. We hired a car (2 wheel drive – we were advised this would be sufficient, and it was) to take us north…
Coyhaique
We left Quellon, Chiloé at 11pm on a mammoth 31 hour ferry journey, with Naviera Austral, to Puerto Chacabuco. This journey was supposed to be very scenic passing through the Chilean fjords. However, we were unlucky with the weather –…
Puerto Varas and Chiloé
Arriving via overnight bus from Santiago, we stopped for a couple of days in Puerto Varas to have some time to ourselves between workaways (we were due to spend two weeks at a workaway in the north of the island…
Casablanca
We had a very long day travelling from New Zealand to Chile. Our flight left Auckland at 19.30 and after a 11 hour flight arrived in Santiago at 15.00 the same day! Jessica writes: At the workaway our host was…