Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Flash Update
Hello all!I knew its been waaay too long since I've updated - I've been travelling a ton, and tomorrow night I'm off to Patagonia (!!!) - Torres del Paine! So, keeping with the whole photo blog idea, I'm gonna give you a super fast update on a few things and then the first couple of my many travels - (those captions last time were less like captions, way more like essays, my b).
So we returned to Vina del Mar for a good 4 day trip - unfortunately it was cloudy the whole time, but we had a chance to explore everything and go to Valpo (Valparaiso) to check out Pablo Neruda's house La Sebastian.
In Valpo of course we had to get nasty, cheap Chilean fast food - Charlotte, on the left, Nick, on the right, poor-life-decision, front and center.
Back in Santiago, I accidentally chopped off all of my hair - getting scarily... scaaarily close to getting one of those oh-so-abundant Chilean mullets. Apparently its a lot harder to translate hair-cut terms into another language...
So this was my Chilean home during all of this...
And here was my room. But why was it so messy? Because I was packing all my stuff up because my host family and I - - - MOVED! (I actually usually, shocking to anyone who knows me, keep my room here clean - pristine even, or else my host mom cleans it, which makes me feel horrible.)
Here's the new house - really cute English townhome style, with a beautiful, beautiful "jardin" (garden) in the back.
Here's my new room. Still messy huh? I actually took this photo to remember how disgusting I felt after getting really really sick for 4 days in bed - I literally threw things everywhere. Had to take antibiotics - overall REALLY sucked.
Right after being sick I went with Chloe (left) and Charlotte (right) to Cajon del Maipo, a beautiful area right outside of Santiago.
We stayed in Lo Valdes - at the tippy top of Cajon del Maipo. It was gorgeous. At night you could see the Milky Way perfectly!
We did a horseback ride our first day in Cajon del Maipo.
We rode to the Laguna Clarillo. A brilliant little pool that really was this shade of blue. Stunning.
Of course I had to jump in. Mind you there are glaciers a few kilometers away - the water was frigid. But oh-so-worth-it!
My beautiful horse Soquete!
Our last day there we went to the Banos Colina which are all these little thermal baths heated by the nearby volcano and filled with some really stinky mud that we put all over ourselves. (In the end I really dont think the mud does anything special, just smell).All in all Cajon del Maipo was AMAZING - the mountains were unlike anything I've ever seen before, very glad we went!
Thats all for now, but I'll update again soon - just thought I'd get a head start!
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