Posted by Carly Lyddiard on Aug 17th, 2008
I did so much in my last month in Santiago. Next week I am leaving Chile for Argentina and eventually to Bolivia for a few months. Parties I went to Grainne’s farewell at her house (nicknamed the Pisco Disco) and met some of the most awesome people in Santiago. Abraham, a very talented drummer who [...]
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Posted by Carly Lyddiard on Aug 17th, 2008
On Friday morning I arrived at a hostel in San Pedro to meet my new travel mates – the guys on the Pachamama tour back to Santiago. First I met one Yerson Muñoz – our guide – a young Chilean with a wicked sense of humour and an unhealthy enjoyment of teaching bad spanish words [...]
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Posted by Carly Lyddiard on Aug 17th, 2008
Poor old PGR, so neglected. Please prepare for a barrage of posts as I cover my adventures of the last two months So, I spent a little over a week in San Pedro de Atacama while I waited for the Pachamama bus to return and take me back to Santiago. So I stayed in San [...]
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Posted by Carly Lyddiard on Jun 27th, 2008
OK, OK. You’ve come to expect everything a little late with me. I’m sorry. Again. So here is a bit of a spiel about my recent wanderings around the north of Chile. I booked a loop tour with a company called Pachamama By Bus. Now I prefer not to travel with tours, but these guys [...]
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Posted by Carly Lyddiard on Jun 19th, 2008
I was told that travel is an experience. I thought “oh yeah, you get to see stuff, and do stuff, and stuff goes wrong and you have to deal with it and all that”. But I was not prepared for this feeling, so hard to describe. Maybe its the solo travel that is adding this [...]
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Posted by Carly Lyddiard on Jun 6th, 2008
So I have decided to stay for a week in San Pedro de Atacama, a small town in the middle of the desert. The town is about 2km above sea level, is about 15-25°C during the day and between 0-10°C at night in the town. There is not a cloud in the sky during the [...]
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Posted by Carly Lyddiard on Jun 5th, 2008
Hi all. This will be a quick and unfortunately boring post, just to let you all know that I am ok and the tour is going well. We arrived last night in San Pedro de Atacama, a small town in the middle of the Atacama Desert. The town exists pretty much just for tourism so [...]
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Posted by Carly Lyddiard on May 30th, 2008
Tomorrow morning I’ll be heading north for a while with Pachamama By Bus. This tour will take me up to San Pedro de Atacama via La Serena, Antofagasta and a few other places, and then back to Santiago through a few more places, including some that are a bit less accessible for someone without a [...]
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Posted by Carly Lyddiard on May 30th, 2008
Sunday the 25th May was Chile’s National Day of Patrimony, where all (or most) of the national monuments are open to the public. There are so many national monuments here – in my first week in Santiago I recall a tourguide on a bus boredly repeating every 2 minutes “That is the blah building. Its [...]
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Posted by Carly Lyddiard on May 29th, 2008
Pomaire is a village about an hour and a half bus ride from Santiago (more or less – it depends on whether you take a direct bus or one that wanders around a bit first). It is famous for its pottery – both the clay from which it is made as well as the skill [...]
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