Chile: Typical building in Puerto Natales
Chile: Boat at Puerto Natales
Chile: Janine preparing an amazing meal in our 1m x 1m kitchen
Chile: Our tiny blue rented tent at Chileno camp - Torres del Paine
Chile: The last scramble over the rocks to the Torres lookout point
Chile: Breakfast in the freezer
Chile: Double deck chocolate mountains (we wish!)
Chile: Not your tropical beach - Torres
Chile: Another beautiful lake
Chile: Suspension bridge over freezing waters
Chile: A river flowing from Glacier Frances
Chile: Wind swept peaks
Chile: Another brilliant blue glacial lake
Chile: Local ralley drivers on a dust road
Chile: We saw about 50 condors here
Chile: Hostel Dos Lagunas - Puerto Natales
Chile: Typical wood and sink house
Chile: Residencial Mvono in Puerto Natales
Chile: Outside our home
Chile: The Navimag boat
Chile: Early morning departure from Puerto Natales
Chile: Saying goodbye to Puerto Natales
Chile: Another view from the boat
Chile: Our cabin
Chile: A typical life jacket model
Chile: Puerto Eden with only 170 inhabitants
Chile: Of the most relaxing moments of our trip
Chile: Fish market on our street corner in Villarrica
Chile: Cooking in our hostel - La Torre Suiza
Chile: From our bus before our climb
Chile: Prepared for the ascent
Chile: Shadows of climbers
Chile: Climbing through a cloud
Chile: Approaching the snow line
Chile: Another 2 hours to go
Chile: We still have to get there!
Chile: Prepared
Chile: Another hour to go...
Chile: Our guide Armin (look at the angle of the slope!)
Chile: Resting above the clouds
Chile: Victory!
Chile: Climbers arriving at the rim
Chile: Resting in triumph at the summit
Chile: The eastern view from the summit
Chile: Janine (with ice axe) on the crater rim
Chile: A very precarious walk on the crater rim - check the sulpher gas to the right
Chile: Us. There.
Chile: Descending the volcano
Chile: A faster way of descending...
Chile: Difficult to believe that we were there - view from the town of Pucon
Chile: Horse riding on a perfect day in a stunning place
Chile: Janine and her horse
Chile: From clothes that looked clean!
Chile: Enjoying a Japanese hot tub in the garden
Chile: Our 1st hostel in Santiago
Chile: Leaving Santiago for Easter Island
Chile: Flying towards the remote Easter Island
Chile (Easter Island): A moai (ancient stone guy) at sunset
Chile (Easter Island): Perspective added
Chile (Easter Island): Our VW “tour bus”
Chile (Easter Island): Patricio explains the island's history
Chile (Easter Island): Janine in an ancient cave home
Chile (Easter Island): Ranu Raraku - the quarry where the moais were carved
Chile (Easter Island): Tongariki - 15 restored moais
Chile (Easter Island): The inside slope of the volcano quarry
Chile (Easter Island): The stone statues reflected the “long ear” features of the original locals
Chile (Easter Island): About 70% of these moais' bodies are underground due to soil erosion over time
Chile (Easter Island): Two lonely partially buried moais on the inside slope of the crater
Chile (Easter Island): Massive stone statues of more than 1000 years old
Chile (Easter Island): This moai is in total about 18m tall, with 12m underground
Chile (Easter Island): Johan's new friend
Chile (Easter Island): I wonder what they would say if they could speak
Chile (Easter Island): Tongariki
Chile (Easter Island): All 15 moais were restored by a Japanese construction company as an advertising stunt
Chile (Easter Island): Janine enjoying the sunrise on our 20km walk
Chile (Easter Island): Sunrise over the north coast
Chile (Easter Island): We discovered a cave home and Johan felt right at home
Chile (Easter Island): We found solitude on our walk
Chile (Easter Island): Ink blue sea
Chile (Easter Island): The rugged coastline
Chile (Easter Island): Petroglyphs depicting the birdman cult symbols
Chile (Easter Island): The beautiful crater rim
Chile (Easter Island): The 1st person to return from the island with a specific bird's egg intact became the new birdman (ruler) for a year
Chile (Easter Island): Our lodging in Recidencial Tahai
Chile: Buildings in San Pedro de Atacama is made from mud (adobe)
Chile: Salt field around the salt lakes in the Atacama desert
Chile: One of the salt lakes we went to check out
Chile: This is what the surface around the lake looks like - salt, rock hard salt!
Chile: Afloat in one of the salt lakes
Chile: From Johan's floating vantage point
Chile: Just before our sundowners next to the salt lakes
Chile: Mud geysers at the El Tatio geyser field
Chile: Boiling water spraying out of the earth
Chile: Janine is testing her powers
Chile: Amazing!
Chile: For hours and hours - just open desert
Chile: The church crowing the tiny village of 40 inhabitants
Chile: A little village above 4000m above sea level
Chile: Llamas feasting high in the mountains
Chile: Graffiti
Chile: There are many funky restaurants in San Pedro
Chile: Janine enjoying herself!
Chile: Our room in San Pedro de Atacama reminded us of the Flintstones
Chile: At some point our driver turned off the main road and headed into the mountains - towards Bolivia!
