…of my recent trip to the lovely island of Chiloe, in the south of Chile. It’s so green and pleasant and beautiful that, in some cases, it almost looks like a painting.
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A very nice “milcao” vendor, whose favorite hat happens to be his Michgan State baseball cap. Go, Spartans! (This pic was taken just for you, Vane!)
A view of the village of Achao on the island of Quinchao (one of Chiloe’s smaller islands).
Not a very fun pic, but one of only 2 that were taken of me on the trip (since, you know, I had the camera and was traveling alone). This pic is proof that I walked all the way to the microscopic village of Chequian, and NOT Quinchao, as I had intended. Chiloe’s churches are famous for being made entirely of wood, including their exterior wood shingles. I wanted to see the oldest of all such churches, located in Quinchao. Turns out I took a wrong turn, and 2 hours later I got to see the following shack of a church instead (which might as well have been the oldest church in Chiloe, from the looks of it):
Back in civilization as Chiloe knows it, I dropped by Castro’s port to see a typical chilote “palafito” structure (basically, a house–or, in this case, restaurant–on stilts). Many of Chiloe’s palafitos have been destroyed by earthquakes, but some remain here and there.
A lone fisherman in the picturesque village of Chonchi.
