Exchange: Universidad Católica de Chile
Studying at the Universidad Católica de Chile was to achieve a goal I had set myself some years earlier and together with my travels in South America, it was a life changing leap into independence and greatly improved my Spanish.
Read MoreLa Nieve
Hay una primera vez para todo! Hay donde esquiar en Australia, pero son pocos los lugares y lejos de las ciudades y sobre todo, son caros. Esto me hizo resolver hacerlo en Sudamérica cuando estuviera estudiando donde iba a pasar el invierno en Santiago muy cerca a la cordillera que tiene pistas de esquí...
Read MoreLas Fiestas Patrias
En septiembre de 2013, Chile cumplió 40 años desde que se instaló la dictadura encabezada por Pinochet mediante un golpe de estado y el bombardeo del Palacio de la Moneda. Cada año se reconoce esa fecha dolorosa, marcada por el incendio de micros en las afueras de la ciudad y otras delincuencias, sólo una...
Read MoreTorres del Paine
Coodinates: 51°00′ South 73°06′ West Right from the beginning of my trip I’d been harbouring the idea of visiting Torres del Paine, the famous national park in Patagonia in the far south Chile. Part of my initial trip to the south had been with that destination in mind but by the time I’d...
Read MoreVillarica & Pucón
T his was another ‘CAUC activity’, one of the last if not the last for the semester. The outline was something of an organised, activity-filled dash around the Araucanía region in the south of Chile. Both Villarica and Pucón are lakeside towns, happily situated in the rolling greenery characteristic to southern Chile and both...
Read MoreValparaíso & Viña del Mar
I lived 22 years in Australia and never once visited New Zealand for many reasons but most likely it was because of money and the fact that half my kiwi family was living in Australia and that I was just a kid so unless we had some family holiday planned it wasn’t as though I...
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