Hi everyone,

Here’s the intended details of the two month trip to Chile and Peru. Given the random changes to my most recent trip to Malaysia and Bali, you may feel that making any plans is a fool’s errand…but you do need something written down so that deviations have significance.

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Wednesday 23rd August: fly to Santiago capital of Chile, via Sydney

Wednesday 23rd August: arrive Santiago totally wrecked after 15 hour flight. stay at an Airbnb for 2 weeks.

Wednesday 6th September: go by bus to Valparaíso. Stay there for a week in an Airbnb. Valparaíso is on the coast directly west of Santiago. Not a big trip, but it seemed a good idea at the time.

Wednesday 13 September: back to Santiago at the same Airbnb for 3 weeks while I go to the Bellavista language school to study Spanish…90 minutes of one on one conversation per day. Gasp.

Thursday 5th October: fly north to Lima, the capital of Peru, stay in an Airbnb for two weeks.

Tuesday 10th October: have a side trip of 3 nights to Cuzco, the ancient capital of the Inca empire, until the Spanish Conquistadors did their dirty work in the 16th century.

Friday 13th October: back to Lima until 17th

Tuesday 17th October: fly back to Santiago for one night

Thursday 19th October: fly back to Aus, leaving at 12.35am, (!) stopping in Auckland, then Sydney then Melbourne on the 20th at 2.35 pm. I then get the afternoon train to Kerang.

This site gives a potted history of Chile…

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/geography/countries/article/chile

And Peru…

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/geography/countries/article/peru

If all this appears to be mansplaining, feel free to ignore.

I imagine that the passion to write should hit every few days, so check now and then if you are interested. If not, don’t feel obliged.

Hasta luego amigos. = see you later friends