By Laura Closkey
30 Apr 2004 1:06 pm
42k ride to Valle de la Luna
Part 1: Sunset
San Pedro de Atacama is a gringo village in the desert. There is not much to the village but gringo tour offices and gringo restaurants. Still, because we are gringos, there was plenty to do. I talked Markus and Anja, my two new Swiss friends, into […]
By Laura Closkey
29 Apr 2004 12:58 pm
Road from Salta to San Pedro
Buses from Salta to San Pedro de Atacama, Chile leave only at 6 am. L I we had a big asado (BBQ) at the hostel the night before and I only got to bed at 4:30. With just 1 hour of sleep, I boarded my deluxe semi-cama sleeper bus […]
By Laura Closkey
28 Apr 2004 7:38 pm
Last night I returned to La Casona del Molino. It’s a peña here in Salta (north western Argentina). A peña is a restaurant where local Argentinians sing and jam out folk music on guitar, sometimes accompanied by percussion or maybe a wooden flute. La Casona has great atmosphere. It’s a rustic place with simple […]
By Laura Closkey
27 Apr 2004 11:09 am
Salta must be the loveliest city in all of Argentina. In northern Argentina, Salta enjoys a warm climate and green green GREEN mountains all around. The thing to do here is get in a car and drive around the country side. Nicole (Seattle) and I hired a little white chevy for 5 days and SURPRISE, […]
By Laura Closkey
16 Apr 2004 2:01 pm
Vines at La Rural
Barrels at Escorihuela
It’s late in the season and the rain that has followed me from San Martin to Pucon and now here to Mendoza seems to be urging me northward to Bolivia. I can´t miss a stop in Mendoza before heading north. Mendoza is located in western Argentina, just east of […]
By Laura Closkey
11 Apr 2004 2:06 pm
Happy Easter!
Here in Santiago I’m staying with Macarena who I met in Nepal a year or two ago. Santiago is famous for it’s smog and with good reason. One of the main tourist attractions is to walk or cable car your way up to Cerro San Christobal for a view of massive Santiago and the […]
By Laura Closkey
1 Apr 2004 2:09 pm
Monkey Puzzle Tree
Big Old Monkey Puzzle
Day 2 in Pucon. No sun in the forcast. I trekked in Parque Huerquehue for the day, where the were no views of the volcano but plenty of water falls, slippery muddy trails and think deep green moss growing on big trees – a perfect day for hugging trees. The […]