Monthly Archives: November 2012

A beautiful place, but a very sad at the same time. We started looking for a couchsurfing host a while ago in Santiago and came across a very interesting profile of Dima and Vaini. Dima is from Russia and Vaini from China, both of them living in Pucon. Three days before we were due to … Continue reading »

We met our first couchsurfing host Felipe at the last station of the metro line heading south, where he very kindly picked us up. We drove to his two bed house in Las Vizcachas, that was surrounded by high walls and two rather large entrances. Security is a big deal in Chile and this was no exception! … Continue reading »

Valparaiso is a nice seaside town littered with amazing graffiti, funky old-school elevators, chorianas, completos and fairly cheap beer. Our first destination was the port where we saw an old peer like object in the sea occupied by sea lions, sea gulls and pelicans. What initially wondered me was how the sea lions got up … Continue reading »