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| Ancud, Chiloé island, Chile |
Before leaving Europe I had the great idea to pack also a book: Mi País Inventado, by Isabel Allende. She nostalgically tells about Chile and her childhood around its cities and villages.
Chile is literally a maravilla! And I'm sure it would satisfy all tastes. Santiago, great for those who enjoy urban life, running after concerts and the likes. Valparaíso for who loves doing tourism or for those who like to profit of tourists. The south, with its fjords and islands, vulcans and cold until Punta Arenas for those love diving into nature. The north for who loves sand, gaysers and endless starry nights.
All this in such a narrow and peripheral country. When the first migrants reached Chile, it must have felt as surviving to some superheroic adventure to the very end of the world, crossing ocean and lands. Beyond the Andes and facing yet another -immense- ocean, there it was today's Chile. Sure a one way trip. Only the thought of returning must have been out of discussion. Today, traveling is way too easy for us citizens of the global village...eventhough often the easiness to travel does not go hand in hand with the open-mindedness of those who go 'on the road'. But this is another story.
Chileans can be lovely people and as we don't look like the typical American gringo and can at least speak Spanish, they tend to like us too :) Their mestizos faces are beautiful, women very charmy, their size too cute!
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