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Chile and Easter Island

Group photo

We enjoyed a great dinner of local indigenous fusions of food by chef Marta, the owner.

This is a map of Easter Island. The numbers in red are all the places that we visited while on the island.

This reserve, created in 1990, consists of seven areas located in the town of San Pedro de Atacama. Each one of them has a different geography, flora, fauna and hydrography.

El Tatio is also part of the Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex, a system of large calderas and associated ignimbrites which have been the sources of supereruptions. Some of these calderas may be the source of heat for the El Tatio geothermal system.

Calving just beginning from the ice shelf above.

Ironically our guide is named after this famous Ahu. Tongariki

Navigating the Calvo Fjord, a glacier filled alley of bobbing ice.

Armadillo

Hotel Jose Nogueira was our home in Punta Arenas. This is a photo of the dining room. The hotel was originally called Palacio Sara Braun. Much history of the area was made within the walls of this hotel through the golden years of Punta Arenas prior to the Panama Canal. This was our hotel where we stayed.

We disembalk on a nearby beach for a walk across sand and rocks to get a better look at Amalia glacier.

A large piece has just slipped out of the ice shelf.

This moai is referred to as the "Traveling Moai". No idea why.

I am proud to stand among these warriors of Easter Island.

Going up the same stairs

If you’re looking to get some exercise while you enjoy the vistas of Santiago, you can hike to the top of Cerro San Cristóbal. The hike takes an average of 45 minutes up the mountain and about 30 minutes back down. When you enter the park, from Bellavista, walk up the sidewalk on the left of the road for about 5-10 minutes until you see the trail head across the road on your right. The first part of the trail is pretty steep but it starts to level out after the first turn. Follow the signs to La Virgen, and after the second and third turn it’s quite an easy walk up to the top of the trail.

The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) is an astronomical interferometer of radio telescopes in the Atacama desert of northern Chile. Since a high and dry site is crucial to millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelength operations, the array has been constructed on the Chajnantor plateau at 16,000 feet altitude, near Llano de Chajnantor Observatory and Atacama Pathfinder Experiment. Consisting of sixty-six 39 feet and 23 feet diameter radio telescopes observing at millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelengths, ALMA is expected to provide insight on star birth during the early universe and detailed imaging of local star and planet formation.

Coming back to shore.

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