A picture is worth 1000 words (pt. 1)...

The photos from my first two months in Chile. Little explanation is required (I hope) and feel free to sit back and enjoy... this is pretty long:



Punta Arenas / Bus ride to Torres del Paine -





City of Punta Arenas, the biggest southernmost city in the world.





Plaza de Armas in downtown Punta Arenas.





Landscape on the bus ride to TDP. Rainbows ranged from 2-456 a day.





The guanaco, pretty much as wild as Chile gets, that is related to the llama.



The closest I will probably ever come to the South Pole. I was so close to hopping the next boat there, but the monetary fee itself would probably cost me my life.



Curicó / Las Siete Tazas -

Traditional dance of some sort at La Vindimia wine festival in Curicó.

Outside one of the vineyards we visited.

Shoving grapes into a machine that pulls off their stems.

Las Siete Tazas, or Seven Teacups which is a series of waterfalls falling into one another.






Viña del Mar / Valparaíso / Reñaca -

Gloomy day at the beach in Reñaca, but the waves....

were huge...
HUGE!
RARR. (that is the sound a wave makes when trying to crush you.)

The bay at Valparaíso.

Scenery from the enchantingly Bohemian Valparaíso, probably my favorite city so far.

The prison-turned-cultural-center.

Everyone with the crazy ex-con/actor Papito (the one with the purple scarf) and our German-born tour guide (to the R of Papito.)

A group of drummers inside the prison.

Dinner overlooking a great view.

Didn´t really come out so great, so you´ll have to just trust me.

Beach at Viña del Mar


Isla Negra (home of Pablo Neruda) -

Pablo´s backyard, an inspiration to many a poem.

His actual house, the inside of which has rooms like an inside of a ship.

People drying out sea urchin type things on the beach where we ate.

Santiago -

View of the city from the top of Cerro San Crístobal.

Sunset atop the cerro.

One of the many Transantiago bustops. Appearances are decieving... this uncommonly emptiness is completely misleading you to believe that it is easy to go ANYWHERE. What a joke.

A view of Avda. Apoquindo and the three towers, one of which I live in.

The one on the left is the one I call home.

Artesan center in Santiago, close to where I live.

A plaza inside my university here, the PUC, (la Cátolica)

Fountain in the middle of downtown Santiago. The excuse of I´m sorry sir, I¨m foreign, is used a lot here.