Category Archives: Trips

Patagonia!

About a month ago, I completed the W Circuit in the Torres del Paine National Park with two of my roommates and one of their friends from Peru. It was very challenging at times, but I am so glad that I did it. I … Continue reading

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Buenos Aires, Argentina

I arrived in BA around 10:30am on Wednesday the 4th, after paying the $160 reciprocity fee and crying inside. My two friends staying at the hostel with me weren’t arriving until that night, so after I took the hostel shuttle … Continue reading

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San Pedro de Atacama

“Antes que nada,” can we just marvel at the fact that I managed to go from the world’s most remote inhabited island to the world’s driest desert in a matter of four days? CHILE, YOU ARE SO INCREDIBLY INTERESTING AND … Continue reading

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Isla de Pascua

In the past two weeks, I have managed to travel from one end of Chile to the other! I’m not going to count this past weekend since it mostly involved me sitting in my room, playing Jewelquest on my phone, … Continue reading

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La Cuarta Region and Santiago Adventures

We left Wednesday night from Santiago by bus and arrived in La Serena at around 2am…yikes. We went on a boat ride on Thursday in Punta Choros and went to the Reserva Pinguino in Humbolt, which was cool. Sea lions, … Continue reading

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La Quinta Region

I traveled to the 5th Region of Chile (Valparaiso and Viña del Mar) with CIEE the weekend of April 13th-15th. The week of the trip was fairly normal. I made brownies with a friend from my program on the 11th, … Continue reading

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Semana Santa: Mendoza

Better known as the weekend that I traveled alone via bus to Argentina and the people at border control almost barred me from entering the country. Whoops! More on that later. I went to Mendoza with three other friends…another friend … Continue reading

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