Thailand

If I had the opportunity to travel to a country that I’d like to know, maybe I think I’d choose Thailand, on the other side of the world. I didn’t know how interesting this country was until when I was in first grade at school arrived a Thai girl by student exchange, her name was Sasivimon, but everyone called her “Sasy”.

Thailand is a country with a culture very attractive, very rich, very colorful, wonderful beaches, although many of them were hit by the tsunami of 2004, for example where Leonardo DiCaprio filmed the movie "The Beach", but still remains a very touristic country.

I think what makes me more curious are exotic foods I have seen in Thai markets showing TV programs or movies. If I’d go someday to Thailand I would take a photo every weird thing that seems to me haha, but I don’t know if I able to taste any strange foods like insects, snakes or whatever.

One thing that I’d like to do there is dive, I always wanted to do, I had the opportunity and I haven’t done, I think Thailand would be a perfect place to do it, because it has a great marine diversity and clear waters, but I hope not to see any shark hahaha…

Holidays in Brazil

Last year I froze my studies in Santiago so, I came back to live in Valdivia with my parents. We didn’t have a very easy year so, my dad decided to spend Christmas and New Year to Brazil. Since I can remember we had never gone on holidays just my parents, my brother and me, always with uncles and friends. We have family in Campinas, a city near Sao Paulo so we visited them for 2 weeks.

We flew from Santiago to Sao Paulo on December 23th and then we took a bus right there in the Guarulhos Airport.

Being there, we spend Christmas at my Cousin’s house, we went to a water park in Olimpia, the New Year we spend in the beach it was really amazing experience and the last day we went to Pedreira to buy stones souvenirs.

I love the fruits in Brazil like Manga (mango), Carambola, Mamao, Guayaba, Maracuyá and many others, but I have to say that the peach and grapes are better in Chile. One thing that seems very strange to me is that they eat avocado with sugar and here in Chile we eat it with SALT!! Hahaha… I didn´t like with sugar…

A photo in Valdivia...

I love photos, I’m always taking photos everywhere…  and differently to most of people I love to take pictures of myself hahah.  This topic is very difficult for me, ‘cause I have infinity of photos that I like, specially taken in some field trips of landscape and nature… are my favorite, definitive!

But this time, I don’t choose one of these I’ll choose one that I took in my city, Valdivia. I think is the most beautiful city of Chile, you can do anything you want... it’s impossible that u could bore. The picture was taken by my school friend María Paz in the Historical Museum Garden in the "Teja Island”, I think is the best view of the city, you can see the river market with the sea lions, pelicans, rowers, the submarine, the Casino and the beautiful bridge “Pedro de Valdivia”. It was taken in winter, 2010. Later we edited the photo to make it like in sepia, but without losing all colors. I don’t know how to do this, but my friend knows how to use photoshop and editing programs, ‘cause she studies Graphic Desing.

The river that appears in the picture is not the Calle-Calle river, it’s the Valdivia river. The city is characterized by the confluence of several rivers such as those just mentioned and two others called Cau-Cau River and Cruces River. I remember it rained all week and we wanted to go out and take pictures (I never tire of photographing Valdivia whenever I can) and that afternoon stopped raining and could take several photos, so we called the album "Now or never" hahah.

...To the North of Chile

One journey that I will never forget was when I traveled with my Mountain Climbling class to North of Chile. I think that I mentioned previously in the other blog. It was on August, 2010.

Well, it started when a teacher’s friend invited us to join in an expedition to Paniri, a volcano located near Calama. We all immediately excited with the idea so we organized and finally traveled from Santiago to Calama by bus, ‘cause we had a lot of luggage, and there we joined the Military Mountain Group. They were very friendly and helped us very much.

It was the first time that I was in a journey like this, but it really was an amazing experience. I met and shared with a wonderful people, and although I knew the north of Chile I think this time I noticed its beauty more than ever before. The colors of the desert and its immensity ... I really fell in love.

The best moment in the journey… unforgettable for me… was when we were going through the desert by the military pickup truck about 120 km/h and on the radio was playing “Have you ever seen the rain?” by Creedence… It was my perfect moment! I always say that, until now haha… First, ‘cause I always listen this group with my father, so at that moment I hadn’t seen him in a long time… and second, ‘cause whenever I listen this song I imagined me traveling hahah…

This journey has been one of the most beautiful field trip since I’m in the FAU.