The Cordillera Blanca, Peru (part 1)

Travelling back from Bogotá, where Patricia had attended a conference recently, we made a stop-over in Peru instead of heading back directly to Santiago. For a while now, we've been wanting to visit the Cordillera Blanca, last year we nearly made it… but then Patricia started a new job and the plans were shelved.

Bogotá

Patricia had to go to a conference in Bogotá recently, and since we hadn´t been there before we decided to travel together and spend a couple of extra days to explore the city. Colombia is quite a way from Chile (i.e. a 6 hour flight), so after all these years in South America it was only our second brief visit to this beautiful and diverse country.

Fiery drinks and snowy peaks

The southern winter has caught up with us again and, just like in previous years, the mountains around Santiago have had their first coat of fresh snow at the end of May, while down here in the city we finally received some badly needed rain.

Valle de Aguas Calientes

It is early May and the summer heat has given way to a pleasantly sunny central-Chile-autumn: the perfect time for some beautiful hikes! With the International Workers' Day falling on a Tuesday this year, we thought we'd make an extra-long weekend of it and spent it in Las Trancas near the Nevados de Chillán volcano complex, about 400km south of Santiago.