Chile

You can have relatively easy access to and can get quite close to a large colony of Magellanic penguins in Otoway, Chile.

Some snapshots and memories of a roadtrip across the empty Patagonian steppe.

Amazing Street Art in Santiago Chile

For obvious reasons, Torres del Paine is South America's most popular national park.

Puerto Natales is a small town in the Patagonian region of Chile. Formerly a sheep-ranching town, it's now a gateway to Torres del Paine park, as well as to the giant sloth caves in the region. It's small, but has a lot of colorful art.

The Moai of Easter Island are a captivating sight!

At the turn of the last century, the moneyed men of Santiago, Chile traveled all over the world to research the architectural elements they wanted to use when building their grand mansions in the heart of the city.    Take a look at what they learned.

  LAN, originally from Chile, and TAM, from Brazil will now become a single airline under the name LATAM, and will begin merging all their operations, with a 3-year goal of complete integration.

 Situated on Chile's southern coast, just north of Tierra del Fuego, the small city of Puenta Arenas is well off the main tourist paths in South America. But it has a world class chocolate shop! Take a look.

A new form of tourism, traveling to places with sufficiently clear night skies for astronomy, has developed in recent years, and one of its hottest spots is the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which has unpolluted clear dry air and no nearby cities.

 I always had the impression that guanacos were not that common an animal in South America.  Yes, they were there, but like the Andean Condor you'd have to be lucky to see one.  As I learned this past month, that impression was totally wrong.