fasten your seatbelt and it worked

Ushuaia, Argentina, February 2015.

Departure hall sign at Easter Island Airport

Would have been better to place that sign into the arrival hall. Suffered quite a bit from sunburns even while it was overcast.

Easter Island, Chile, January 2015.

Am I so beautiful?

Foz do Iguaçu, Brasil, March 2015.

No, not Ankor Wat

Cemetery (used up to the 1980s), next to the ruins of the Jesuit mission of Santa Ana, Missions, Argentina, March 2015.

Flashy municipality

San Ignacio, Misiones, Argentina, March 2015.

Man's world

Montevideo, Uruguay, March 2015.

Crash test talk

Montevideo, Uruguay, March 2015.

Trekking realities

Bus drivers notice, El Chaltén (FitzRoy--Parque Nacional Los Glaciares), Patagonia, Argentina., February 2015.

Trekking in Torres del Paine

Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile, February 2012.

Philip Morris Soul cigarette

Cafayate, Argentina, February 2015.

Drink Sir Ernest Shackleton and/or too much

Puerto Arenas, Chile, January 2014.

driving to work

Ancud, Chiloé, Chile, January 2015.

scary cinema

Ancud, Chiloé, Chile, January 2015.

Wooden churches of Chiloé

Iglesia de San Juan Bautista de San Juan de Coquihuil and San Juan's shipyard.

Church of Quinchao

Iglesia Santa María in Achao

Church of Nercón 

Iglesia de Vilupulli

Iglesia de San Carlos Borromeo, Chonchi

At least 150 wooden churches once stood on the Chiloé archipelago, a group of islands off the coast of central Chile. The first missionaries to evangelize the local population were the Mercedarians, and between 1608 and 1767 the Jesuits organized a system of itinerant missions that traveled once a year for eight months, building new chapels in different locations. The churches were situated along the coast to guide sailors around the contours of the island, and were protected by northern mountains, with a south-facing entrance sheltered from the rain.

All were constructed by local craftsmen using the techniques used by shipbuilders, who built them entirely of wood —even the fasteners and other typically metal components—due to its abundance in the region. Their main characteristic is the symmetrical tower-façade and arched entrance. Today, only sixty corresponding to the Chiloe school typology remain and sixteen of them were designated World Heritage sites by UNESCO in 2000.

Chiloé, Chile, January 2015.

Ready fro the real stuff: Curranto

It's what you need after a storm or after hours of manual work. 

The ingredients of curranto consist of shellfish, meat, potatoes--Chiloe's potatoes are the best--, milcao (kind of a potato dumpling), chapaleles (another kind of dumpling made from boiled potatoes and wheat), vegetables and fish (leftovers from the day before. Chiloe still has an abundance of fish). The qualities are not fixed; the idea is that there should be a little of everything.

Dalcahue, Chiloe, Chile, January 2015.

Crocheted curtains

Achao, Chiloe, Chile, January 2015.

Cats and dogs

Achao, Chiloe, Chile, January 2015.

No ugly wind power

Ancud, Chiloe, Chile, January 2015.

Potatoes of Chiloe

Even Charles Darwin, who visited the archipelago in 1834, was amazed by the astonishing variety of Chiloe's indigenous potatoes. We had a potato tasting party. Thanks.

Ancud, Chiloe, Chile, January 2015. 

The neighbor who knows everything

Ancud, Chiloe, Chile, January 2015.

handling tourists

Close to Ancud, Chiloe, Chile, January 2015.

Pelican above

Close to Ancud, Chiloe, Chile, January 2015.

Saturn Penguin

Close to Ancud, Chiloe, Chile, January 2015.

Jeff Koons was here?

Close to Ancud, Chiloe, Chile, January 2015.

God will answer neither text nor Facebook messages

Thanks God.

In front of Castro's cathedral, Chiloe, Chile, January 2015.

Keeping the baby warm

Castro, Chiloe, Chile, January 2015.

The pick-up and its owner's house

Ancud, Chiloe, Chile, January 2015.

no sharp bend

Ancud, Chiloe, Chile, January 2015.

Christmas tree of Chiloe

Ancud, Chiloe, Chile, January 2015.

drop a lollypop

Between Puerto Natales and El Calafate, February 2015.

Chiloe locals

Ancud, Chiloe, Chile, January 2015.