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Waterfall before Baño Morales
20 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Just a few kms before Baño Morales, we saw a waterfall on the right side of the road and decided to stop by and have a look. It was about 300 mts from the main road. The water dropped in 2 falls, a small higher up and a much bigger one below (about 35 mts high). We parked our car about 100 mts from the falls and walked over.En savoir plus
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Off from the falls
20 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
It was a lovely waterfall with a small pool at the base. We stayed there for a few minutes. There were some people camping nearby. We still didn't have a place to stay and it was getting dark so we decided to move on to Baño Morales.En savoir plus
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El Morado Mountain Lodge
20 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Our 1st stop was just a km from Baño Morales at the El Morado Mountain Lodge. It has a beautiful location and is very beautifully built but it was too expensive to stay. One night cost about 150000 CLP for a double room 🙄 We decided to go into the village and find some place to stay.En savoir plus
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Cabañas Correcaminos
20 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Baño Morales is a very small village of about 15 huts. The 1st one we saw when we entered the village was Cabañas Correcaminos. There were people staying there and highly recommended staying in the place. One of them called the place's owners. They had a vacant cabaña for 4 people and it cost us 50000 CLP total. Each cabaña had a sitout with a barbeque place. All of our neighbors were out cooking on the BBQ and singing and chatting. It was a great atmosphere. They even had a kitchen in the cabaña and a small shop just behind the cabañas to buy the groceries, charcoal etc.
We went to the shop and bought some food stuff for the dinner. After that we cooked some spaghetti and ate it inside on the dining table in the cabaña. The drinks were outside under the star. It was amazing. There were millions of stars and it looked amazing with the profile of the mountains in the foreground. Damn, I missed my proper camera now. 😔En savoir plus
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Start of the San Francisco glacier trek
21 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
We woke up around 9 am and checked out by 10:30 am. We left our bags in the car and went to the shop. Our hostel owner had told us that sometimes the shop owner can make fried eggs for breakfast, so we went to check with him. They had not opened when we reached so we called out to them and they agreed to open the shop for us. They also agreed to make eggs and coffee for us.
We also convinced them to cook some egg pies with vegetables for our lunch/dinner when we come back from the trek. By the time we finished the breakfast, it was 11:45 am and the El Morado National Monument closed for entries at 12 pm. We hurried over to the entrance and started the trek just in time. It was very nice and green around us, much different than the kind of treks we have been doing in the altiplano. It was quite hot in the sun. The views around were stunning.En savoir plus
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Flora El Morado National Monument
21 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
The trek had a rich variety of flora. There were flowers of every hue amd color. Tge contrast of the colors with the greens was stunning. It was an ideallic location with warm and sunny under the sun but a light cool breeze cooling the body and swinging the flowers around. The 1st 30-40 minutes was a gentle but constant climb up the mountain.En savoir plus
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Scenic beauty during the trek
21 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
We continued our climb for about 50 min. After that we reached the 1st ridge and passed over. The scenery changed from greem grass and colorful flowers to that of lava fields covered by yellow grass and the granite peaks in the distance.En savoir plus
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Reaching Aguas Panimavida
21 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
After trekking almost 1 hour we reached Aguas Panimavida. It was a stunning setting with bare snow covered mountains in the distance and the colored hills in the foreground with a crater like clearing marking the wetland in the greenery.En savoir plus
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Aguas Panimavida
21 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Aguas Panimavida is like a place from some other planet. The water flowing out from the underground springs had dissolved and brought out minerals from below the ground. There were pools of red, brown, copper, yellow but interestingly, the water was cold and not hot as typical in such places.En savoir plus
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More colored springs
21 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
About 15 min walk from the Aguas Panimavida, we came across more colored springs. Here too, the water was cold. The colors looked amazing in the lofty mountainous background.
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Flower carpet
21 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
A bit further from the colored springs, we came across some very beautiful pink flowers covering the hillside. They were spread all over like a carpet of pink on the green grassy hills.
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To Laguna Morales
21 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
After about another hour and 20 min, we reached the Laguna Morales. The path had been green and pink all the while. The ascent had been slow and gentle.
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Laguna Morales
21 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ 🌙 -5 °C
The Laguna Morales was a small lake of emerald green water with dark granite mountains covered with snow in the backdrop. It was a stunning location but with nothing special to warrant a long stop. We stopped for a few minutes and then continued with the last stretch of the 8 kms trek.En savoir plus
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San Francisco glacier
21 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ 🌙 -5 °C
After trekking another 40 min, we reached the end of the trek beyond which it is not allowed to pass without a guide and proper equipment. The glacier has retreated quite a bit and whatever is left of it, had melted off. We didn't see any part of it from the end point of the trek. We stopped there for a while before starting our trek back at around 4 pm.En savoir plus
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Trek back
21 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ 🌙 -5 °C
The trek back was along the same path and took us about 2.5 hrs. We stopped at the shop to eat our egg tortilla. It was a nice small meal before we set off for the Colinas hot springs.
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Reaching the Colinas hot springs
21 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ 🌙 -5 °C
After the food, we drove on deeper into the valley towards the Colinas hot springs. After driving for about 20 min, we reached the springs at about 8 pm. The entry fee was a hefty 8000 CLP per person. When we complained a bit, they charged us for 3 people instead. 😉😉En savoir plus
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Termas Valle de Colinas
21 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ 🌙 -5 °C
About a 2.5 hour drive from Santiago, at the foot of the San José volcano, at an elevation of about 8,000 feet are the eight different pale blue pools of the hotsprings, which have been channeled away from their source with different mixes of cool water, to make for comfortable soaking. The waters contain several types of minerals including magnesium and calcium that are said to have curative properties. The pools towards the top are warmer around 55C than the ones below with the last one of them around 28C.

People believe in UFO activity here, but even if you’re a nonbeliever, the skies here are stunning both during the day, with sharp peaks against bright blue skies or at night, when on a clear night, with no light pollution, the stars shine bright.En savoir plus
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The night at Termas Colinas
21 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ 🌙 -5 °C
We got into the pools at around 8:15 pm. It was late in the evening and the sun was setting behind the mountains. As the sun started going down, it started getting colder. We started moving towards the upper pools. The moon came out by around 9:30 pm it was quite dark. The stars were amazing. We could see billions of them in the clear and dark mountain air. There was a nip in the air but the warmth of the hot pools compensated it. It was absolutely magical. A must do for everyone at least once in your lifetime. Interesting, the moon set within 30-40 min of rising and it became even more darker.
We left the place around 11 pm. It was pitch dark with no lights anywhere nearby. We started our drive back towards Santiago.En savoir plus
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Off to Valparaiso
22 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
We reached Santiago early in the morning. On the way, we had booked a place in Le Louvre hotel in Santiago. We arrived at 2 am and slept off. The breakfast was till 11 am and we managed to make it just in time for it. The plan for the day was to go to Valparaiso and Viña del Mar. The free tour at Valparaiso starts at 3 pm and we wanted to make it before that. I had also messaged Alexandra about our plan so we could meet her there.
We started a bit late and barely made it to Valparaiso by 3:05 pm. We directly parked the car in one of the parkings near the main plaza from where the tour was supposed to start. By the time we came out of the parking at around 3:15 pm, tge tour had already left, but we had the tour itinerary and we followed it quickly and managed to catch them when they were about to go up one of the funicular. The city till now had looked very hep with a lot of beautiful graffiti and a lot of hippies smoking weed openly.En savoir plus
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Valparaiso free tour
22 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Valparaiso is a town of graffiti and sea views. There was amazing graffiti on the house walls and there were beautiful viewpoint of the Pacific Ocean from the hills right next to the sea.
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We are not hippies but happies
22 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Our guide explained that there were 3 ways to get graffiti on Valparaiso walls. Sometime people invite artists to paint on their house walls, pay them but then the artists are responsible for maintaining it and keeping it clean and interesting. Another option is some artists requesting and getting an approval to paint the walls of their neighbors. The 3rd way is the sneaky illegal way where artists paint illegally at night.En savoir plus
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More graffiti
22 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Some more graffiti from around Valparaiso.
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Colored houses and graffiti
22 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Every house was painted in different colors and most had graffiti on their walls.
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Piano stairs
22 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
We also saw the piano stairs that were painted in memory of a music teacher who used to teach music free to the poor children of the city. One of his students started painting the stairs but he was caught when he was halfway through. He was doing it illegal without permission. He was put in jail for the night. On coming out he explained about the teacher and wanted permission to complete it. The city council granted him permission after which he completed the painting.En savoir plus
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Ocean views
22 décembre 2017, Chili ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
There is a string of hills right next to the ocean with fantastic views over the water. Most of these places have walkways with local artists selling paintings and nick-nacks. Most of them looked like hippies and quite a few of them were high on weed.En savoir plus
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