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Colchagua Museum
When we were in Colchagua valley, we stayed in a fancy Airbnb with Omi and granddad. We went to a museum that was very big. There were fossils, mummies, human heads, and pots with pictures of people holding human heads. The first thing we saw were fossils. There were smilodon and glyptodon fossils. There was…
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Omi and Granddad Visit Us In Chile
Recently, Omi and Granddad flew down to visit us in Santiago. They came on February twenty first to Santiago. They came at about six thirty in the morning to the airport where we picked them up. We walked together over to the airport hotel where we were all staying. They went to bed and we…
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Astronomy in Chile
A couple of days ago we went to an observatory. We went from 9:30-11:30 so we could see the stars. I liked the building where we were looking through a giant telescope because the roof could turn so you could see different stars. The first thing we saw was Jupiter. You could see the faint…
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Santiago
A few weeks ago, we were in Santiago. Santiago is the capital of Chile. It’s basically in the middle of Chile, latitude and longitude-wise. We were there for many reasons, mostly Omi and Granddad coming, but that’s another story for another blog post. We went to a Sheraton (not because we wanted nice, because we…
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Santiago and Northbound
We’re back in Santiago after twelve days in central Chile with my parents. We spent a week on near Santa Cruz in the Colchagua valley wine country and a few days at the beach in Pichelemu before putting them on a plane last night. The kids had fun on their “winter break:” time with grandparents,…
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Liolaemus lizards
On my dad’s birthday we hiked up a volcano. On the volcano there were lizards that were green and blue. They were all over the place. Some were black, we think these were females.
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Carratera Austral and Vineyard Camping
The Carretera Austral is the road we just finished. It goes from Villa O’Higgin all the way up to Puerto Montt. We were going to do it all, but our plans changed so we finished it yesterday. If you didn’t already know, the Carretera is the main overlanding north-south road in southern Chile (it’s also…
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Sundry update: Repairs, Volcanoes, Trains
I think we left off sometime in Argentina, so let’s catch up on the last fortnight or so. Two weeks ago we left Chile after doing much of the Carretera Austral to go back into Argentina for more of Ruta 40. San Carlos de Bariloche is a major tourist center among the lakes in the…
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Marble Caves
Yesterday we went to the Marble Caves. As you might’ve guessed from the name, the marble caves are (bum ba da dum!) Caves made out of Marble. But what you might not have guessed is that they are not on land, but in the water. When we got to the row of stands that run…
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Hiking and Museums in Ushuaia
In Tierra del Fuego we went on a long hike. It was about three hours long. It was not too hard. We hiked alongside a river. It led to a lake that was ice cold, and there we had a picnic. From the lake you can see a valley carved out by a glacier. It…
