pictures can´t do the place justice but it´s worth trying. feels like the west before people showed up! the largest city for hundreds of miles is coyhaique - population 45,000.
the b&b where i´m staying is old school too... practically a log cabin with a wood stove in every room. i feel like i´m inside an episode of the history channel or something.
and if you´re wondering where legal gets all those fish flown in every day... the plane was loaded with tons of frozen ´pescado´. guessing they go through santiago and then onto o´hare, new york, or toronto where they are delivered to restaurants the next morning...
and another random fact - people here don´t drink fresh coffee! only the instant kind, because the fresh kind is too expensive. apparantely coffee roasting is capital intensive, and its a big source of hard currency for many latin american countries, so they prefer to export it for dollars rather than consume it locally (not that chile produces a lot anyway...)
2 days until my episode of into the wild starts - 5 weeks living in tents in some of the world´s last true wilderness. it is hard to grow much here and expensive to export so the land is still mostly unsettled.
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| Is it a cactus? Or a palm? |
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| Coyhaique - boom town in central Patagonia. |
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| View with some fresh air, a breeze and sunshine to appreciate the setting. |
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