Hey everyone,
just a short post about what I'm going to be up to for the next days...
Martha, Max and I will do a trekking tour through the "Torres del Paine"! You should google it if you don't know what it is, its pretty cool ;)
We will do the "W" route in three nights and four days. It will probably be a challange for me because I have a problem with my left foot right now. I don't know where it came from but it hurts when I walk. It will hopefully be okay and if not I will have to take the pain and just keep walking ;)
The other thing is that people we met who just did that tour, got into snowstorms etc. and the wind here is pretty strong. But apart from that its supposed to be very beautiful and a good trekking route. I'm excited!!
You will hear from me later
¡Hasta la vista!
Nina
Dienstag, 29. November 2011
Donnerstag, 24. November 2011
Puerte Montt-Ancud-Osorno-Punta Arenas
hey guys, here I am again...
I`m sitting in a hostel in Punta Arenas right now...uploading pictures doesn´t work somehow but I will keep trying!
Lets start with my first couch-surf experience in Puerte Montt. Martha and I arrived there on Friday afternoon and had to wait to get the exact adress from our couchsurfer. It was raining so we sat in a cafe and waited...after we talked to Hugo (the couchsurfer) and got the address we went there and left all our stuff. We talked a little bit and went to bed. He lived in an apartment in the 11th floor with an awesome view over the city and the port. We had a room for ourselves with two huge beds!! In the morning we said goodbye to him and had a nice breakfast with coffee ect. It´t amazing how fast and how much trust he had in us. We were complete strangers and stayed in his apartment without his attendence. But I guess that´s how Couchsurfing works...
Well, the next day we went to Ancud, a city on island "Chiloe". It takes you about two and half hours with bus and ferry and its a beautiful ride. There were just a few people in Chiloe doing Couchsurfing and we had the luck to have found Romina, who lives in Ancud and had room for two people. She was really nice. She picked us up from the bus terminal, took us to some real nice places in Chilo and invited us to have our first real chilean barbecue with her family. On the way back from one of the places she showed us we got stuck with the car...haha...we didn´t have any signal and the next neighboor was one hour walk away. Since the car just wouldn´t move, Romina walked to the next neighboor, who pulled us out of there one hour later. Adventures day there ;)
We stayed one more night with Romina and left for Osorno at lunch time. Since our bus to Punta Arenas left the next day from Osorno we had to stay there for one night. The city isn´t actually worth to see and the host in the place we stayed was not very hospitable either. It was just for one night so we didn´t care that much.
At 12 am the next day our bus to Punta Arenas left...30 hours in the bus!! I would say : "Record for now"
It wasn´t as bad as I expected it to be, but still pretty long. It´s the cheapest way to get from one place to the other so we accepted it ;)
We found a pretty nice hostal with nice people in Punta Arenas. Lots of Israels...apparently there are tons of them at this time around Southamerica, because its "the" big thing to do after returning from the army.
We are waiting for Max, a friend from Santiago, to arrive here and then we will do all the things you can do around here--> like see Penguins and maybe whales!!
That´s all again
I will keep tryin to upload those pictures for you
Saludos,
Nina
I`m sitting in a hostel in Punta Arenas right now...uploading pictures doesn´t work somehow but I will keep trying!
Lets start with my first couch-surf experience in Puerte Montt. Martha and I arrived there on Friday afternoon and had to wait to get the exact adress from our couchsurfer. It was raining so we sat in a cafe and waited...after we talked to Hugo (the couchsurfer) and got the address we went there and left all our stuff. We talked a little bit and went to bed. He lived in an apartment in the 11th floor with an awesome view over the city and the port. We had a room for ourselves with two huge beds!! In the morning we said goodbye to him and had a nice breakfast with coffee ect. It´t amazing how fast and how much trust he had in us. We were complete strangers and stayed in his apartment without his attendence. But I guess that´s how Couchsurfing works...
Well, the next day we went to Ancud, a city on island "Chiloe". It takes you about two and half hours with bus and ferry and its a beautiful ride. There were just a few people in Chiloe doing Couchsurfing and we had the luck to have found Romina, who lives in Ancud and had room for two people. She was really nice. She picked us up from the bus terminal, took us to some real nice places in Chilo and invited us to have our first real chilean barbecue with her family. On the way back from one of the places she showed us we got stuck with the car...haha...we didn´t have any signal and the next neighboor was one hour walk away. Since the car just wouldn´t move, Romina walked to the next neighboor, who pulled us out of there one hour later. Adventures day there ;)
We stayed one more night with Romina and left for Osorno at lunch time. Since our bus to Punta Arenas left the next day from Osorno we had to stay there for one night. The city isn´t actually worth to see and the host in the place we stayed was not very hospitable either. It was just for one night so we didn´t care that much.
At 12 am the next day our bus to Punta Arenas left...30 hours in the bus!! I would say : "Record for now"
It wasn´t as bad as I expected it to be, but still pretty long. It´s the cheapest way to get from one place to the other so we accepted it ;)
We found a pretty nice hostal with nice people in Punta Arenas. Lots of Israels...apparently there are tons of them at this time around Southamerica, because its "the" big thing to do after returning from the army.
We are waiting for Max, a friend from Santiago, to arrive here and then we will do all the things you can do around here--> like see Penguins and maybe whales!!
That´s all again
I will keep tryin to upload those pictures for you
Saludos,
Nina
Donnerstag, 17. November 2011
Traveling in the south of Chile
Hello everyone,
Yes its actually me, andbeen has only been a few days since I wrote in here ;)
I'm in "ugly" Puerte Montt right now, sitting in a cafe with Wifi. Martha and me started our trip from Santiago Tuesday night and arrived the next morning at 10 o'clock in Valdivia. Valdivia is very quiet and not too big. After we hadn't heard back from our Couch surfer we walked around to find a place to stay the night. We got lucky and found a small "cabana" with a small bathroom, kitchen and two bedrooms for a very good price. Since we already saw everything from Valdivia, we booked the next bus to Puerte Varas at 6:10 am...we got there at 9:30 am and had some breakfast right on the big Lake Lago Llanquihue with a good view on "Vulcane Osorno", which is one of the most beautiful vulcanos in Chile :)
After we had a good exercise walking up on one of the hills we took a bus to Frutillar. Not much going on there. We walked a lot and had a nice lunch/tea in the cafe "Lavanda", which Marisol and Ralf (with whom I stayed in Santiago) recommended to us. Thanks for that! It was really nice!
In the late afternoon we took the bus to Puerte Montt where we found a Couch to surf :) the first time we will do that, but not our last time. We already have a couch for the next night on "Isla Chiloe".
Our bus to Punta Arenas leaves on Tuesday. It takes about 30-36 hours!!!
It's gonna be worth it though, 'cause Punta Arenas is supposed to be really beautiful. It's the biggest southernmost city on earth and offers lots of interesting things to do. You can go and see penguins or whales and lots more :) I'm gonna let you know and take tons of pictures.
Okay, that's all for now.
Muchos saludos y besitos
Yes its actually me, andbeen has only been a few days since I wrote in here ;)
I'm in "ugly" Puerte Montt right now, sitting in a cafe with Wifi. Martha and me started our trip from Santiago Tuesday night and arrived the next morning at 10 o'clock in Valdivia. Valdivia is very quiet and not too big. After we hadn't heard back from our Couch surfer we walked around to find a place to stay the night. We got lucky and found a small "cabana" with a small bathroom, kitchen and two bedrooms for a very good price. Since we already saw everything from Valdivia, we booked the next bus to Puerte Varas at 6:10 am...we got there at 9:30 am and had some breakfast right on the big Lake Lago Llanquihue with a good view on "Vulcane Osorno", which is one of the most beautiful vulcanos in Chile :)
After we had a good exercise walking up on one of the hills we took a bus to Frutillar. Not much going on there. We walked a lot and had a nice lunch/tea in the cafe "Lavanda", which Marisol and Ralf (with whom I stayed in Santiago) recommended to us. Thanks for that! It was really nice!
In the late afternoon we took the bus to Puerte Montt where we found a Couch to surf :) the first time we will do that, but not our last time. We already have a couch for the next night on "Isla Chiloe".
Our bus to Punta Arenas leaves on Tuesday. It takes about 30-36 hours!!!
It's gonna be worth it though, 'cause Punta Arenas is supposed to be really beautiful. It's the biggest southernmost city on earth and offers lots of interesting things to do. You can go and see penguins or whales and lots more :) I'm gonna let you know and take tons of pictures.
Okay, that's all for now.
Muchos saludos y besitos
Montag, 14. November 2011
Last week in Santiago...for now ;)
And now what I'm doing right now...
The last week without school started pretty relaxing and became from Wednesday on really busy. I sort of lived in "El Punto", which is a students residence in the city of Santiago, where some of my friends live. There is always something going and it's really fun to hang around there. Since the metro stops at 11 pm and all the parties etc. haven't even started by then I always sleep at my friends place. On Friday Martha and me bought our bus ticket to Valdivia, which is about 8-10 hours in the south of Santiago. We are planning to travel in the south of chile together and meet up with another friend in Punta Arenas, which is the biggest southernmost city of Chile. From there we will continue to Argentina to meet a friend of Martha in El Calafate. I heard a lot about this place and am really excited to see it. We don't what we are going to do after that but I really want to go to Buenos Aires, visit a friend (Justo ;))in Rosario (only 2-3 hours from Buenos Aires) and go to Brazil. I have friends there, who all said that I could come and visit them when I'm in Brazil ;)
That is another good thing I got out of my school. I made friends with people from all over the world. I probably even have someone to stay with in Melbourne next year...
Well, I don't know when I'm going to be able to write again. Some of the places in the south of Chile don't have Internet connection, so it might take a while. But you guys are probably already used to it now :D Sorry, for always letting you wait that long.
See you later :)
The last week without school started pretty relaxing and became from Wednesday on really busy. I sort of lived in "El Punto", which is a students residence in the city of Santiago, where some of my friends live. There is always something going and it's really fun to hang around there. Since the metro stops at 11 pm and all the parties etc. haven't even started by then I always sleep at my friends place. On Friday Martha and me bought our bus ticket to Valdivia, which is about 8-10 hours in the south of Santiago. We are planning to travel in the south of chile together and meet up with another friend in Punta Arenas, which is the biggest southernmost city of Chile. From there we will continue to Argentina to meet a friend of Martha in El Calafate. I heard a lot about this place and am really excited to see it. We don't what we are going to do after that but I really want to go to Buenos Aires, visit a friend (Justo ;))in Rosario (only 2-3 hours from Buenos Aires) and go to Brazil. I have friends there, who all said that I could come and visit them when I'm in Brazil ;)
That is another good thing I got out of my school. I made friends with people from all over the world. I probably even have someone to stay with in Melbourne next year...
Well, I don't know when I'm going to be able to write again. Some of the places in the south of Chile don't have Internet connection, so it might take a while. But you guys are probably already used to it now :D Sorry, for always letting you wait that long.
See you later :)
Mendoza, Argentina
Hey Guys,
since I don't have school anymore I finally have time to write about my trip to Mendoza...
Last Friday (28th October) four of my friends and me took a Bus to Mendoza, which is a town in Argentina close to the border to Chile. We left at 1:30 pm and got there at about 10:30 pm. The border was really busy because it was a holiday weekend in Chile...so we had to wait there about three hours. When we finally got to our hostel, we just left our stuff in our room and went out to get some food. Although it was already 1 am we easily found a restaurant that would serve us food. There were still so many people on the street and so much going on that we didn't realize how late it was. We finished our late dinner at 3 am and went back to the hostel and in our bads. This is one thing I really like about South America...you would never find a restaurant that would serve food until 3 o'clock in the morning in Germany; well, except for McDonalds but you can't qualify this as a restaurant ;)
The next day we spent a relaxing day in the center of Mendoza. We went to the antique Market, the park, restaurants and my favorite --> the market with hand-made jewelry, bags, shoes and other things.
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| waiting at the border |
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| the park, only 3 minutes from our hostel |
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| the market with handmade things |
On Sunday we attended the Rafting tour of the hostel. It was fun but the rafting tour could have been a little bit more crazy and exciting ;) When we came home we planned on going out and meet some hot argentinian guys ;) but somehow we all ended up sleeping until the next morning. Hahaha!
On Monday our little group split up. Yannick, Martha and I went to the huge park of Mendoza, which is also the biggest in whole South America. We almost got lost while we were trying to find the University :D but since Yannick and I have a good sense of orientation we managed to get back on track.
One weird thing happened that day: Martha, Yannick and I were just taking pictures of the beautiful fountain in the park when a guy asked if we could take a picture. We thought he wanted us to take a picture of him in front of the fountain but unfortunatly what he really wanted was a picture with the two blond girls standing next to it--> Martha and I :D and that wasn't the last time that would happen to us...last week in a Club some guys asked the same thing. I hope this isn't getting normal.
The last day I went shopping with Kimberly and Nevena and enjoyed our last day in the park of Mendoza. Our bus left at 10:30 pm and arrived at about 5 am in Santiago.
With two hours of sleep Martha and me went to school the next morning. After finishing class at 5 pm I went home and slept ;)
That was all about my 4-day weekend in Mendoza. A very good little relaxing break from the busy life in Santiago.
Cementerio visit
Cementerio means cemetery (Friedhof). Wednesday two weeks ago I went with my classmates to the biggest one in Santiago and also in whole South America. It was huge!! It's built up as a city with Streets and Plazas. The mausoleums look like little cute houses and really make it appear like a city. People even drive around with Taxis to get to their family grave because it's THAT huge. Famous people like Allende (former president of Chile), Erich Honecker (yes, the german Honecker!) and others are buried in this cemetery...
Here are some pictures:
Here are some pictures:
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| Street "Baquedano" |
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| small version of Norte Dam |
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| Adam und Eva |
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