The most amazing place I've know in Chile (wherever, I've never went out of the country) is in the most austral part, Punta Arenas city. I've went there two times, the first time in 2005 and then in 2007, because the Literature Fair, that I was invited to read and present my second book.
Punta Arenas is quiet, mysterious, mystic. The constantly cold wind, I mean very very cold wind, scratch you skin like sandpaper. Sometime it is so strong that you can't walk. But the wind has a special energy that I love and I miss here in Santiago.
The quiet and freeze water from the Estrecho de Magallanes is like a big lake but it's the sea. The sunsets watching the water and the eternal sun of the South Pole are spectacular.
The two times I travelled in spring time, maybe the most sad spring time in the world, because actually it doesn't exist.
This year I'm invited again to go to the Fair in winter, just in Winter Carnival time. I'm not sure if I'll go, because I can't left my work and the university. I would like to go so much. So much.
I never had the chance to visit punta arenas!
ReplyDeleteBut i believe the mistic aura that this place have, because so many people thik that too!
I really wanna Go!
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I want to go to Punta Arenas too! I like the south! Just I went to Puerto Montt and it's nice, but Puntarenas must be so nice!
ReplyDeleteThat picture is amazing. I've never been that far south. I hope to do it one day...Is it awfully cold?
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