Peter's Travel Blog

After a quiet overnight stop, we woke to, reassuringly, find ourselves still in Valparaiso. Fortunately, we were down for escorting the ‘Doing Your Own Thing’ tour to Santiago, an eight-hour tour featuring a two-hour coach trip there, a two-hour coach trip back, and four hours of free time in Santiago, the capital city of Chile. Escorts were instructed to meet...

Today, at around midday, we arrived in Valparaiso, in Chile. It’s an overnight stop, so with Tracey and I being down for escorting duties tomorrow, we decided to take the opportunity of a free afternoon to have a look at the city. Marco Polo was tied up by the quayside, alongside several container ships. At the end of the quay...

Today, we arrived in Puerto Montt, and we were on a half-day’s tour escorting duty, to Petrohue and Puerto Varas. The region we are in is described simply as the Chilean ‘Lake District’, situated roughly a third of a the way up the long, thin length of Chile, and Puerto Montt is its gateway. The region is a major world...