Amazing Snow falls at mount Andes in Santiago, Chile
This amazing snow falls was taken on 22nd August 2015 at about 9 am.
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How we crossed the Atacama Desert from Chile to Bolivia | 85+ Countries w/3 kids
Our adventures in South America continued north from Puerto Montt to Santiago and across the Atacama desert.
The Atacama Desert is a plateau in Chile, covering a 1,000-kilometre (600 mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains. Its’ unique location between two mountain chains (the Andes and the Chilean Coast Range) is of sufficient height to prevent moisture advection from either the Pacific or the Atlantic Oceans and creates a two-sided shadow with almost no rainfall at all.
Another fascinating fact is that its soil and sand conditions are pretty much similar to that of Mars and because of that, NASA uses this desert for testing instruments for missions to the red planet. The Atacama has also been used as a location for filming Mars scenes, most notably in the television series Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets.
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Volando sobre la Cordillera de los Andes (Santiago de Chile -Buenos Aires)
Vuelo sobre la Cordillera de los Andes, desde Santiago de Chile a Buenos Aires.
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LAN Chile Airbus A320 - Flying along the Andes to the Moon
Date: January 24 2014
Flight with LAN Chile Airbus A320 from Santiago de Chile to Calama.
The 1 hour and 50 minute flight took us straight up north along the Andes, then later passing over Volcanoes and Desert landscapes - spectacular views all along.
Interesting landing in the lunar landscape in Calama with lots of wind gusts and thermals during last 10 minutes of flight.
Driving from Chile to Argentina 4K HD
This is the drive from Chile to Argentina taking the Ruta 60 from Santiago Chile to Mendoza Argentina. The ride itself is about 6 to 7 hours depending on Immigration and traffic and weather conditions. The elevation of the high point of the pass is around 12,500 feet above sea level.
The best part of this video begins as the 8:00 minute mark around the Los Caracoles, which is a series of 20 windy turns up the Andes. A great spot for a picture is at Panorama Rio Juncalillo also known as Curva 17. The first 25 minutes of the video are from the Chilean side before we cross the border and ultimately drive a bit into Argentina then hit the Immigration center where the wait is about 40 minutes to process. The bus ride is with CATA International a very nice bus in my opinion.
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Chile to Bolivia (Crossing the Andes Mountains) Part 1
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Chile Bolivia (Crossing the Andes Mountains)
DAY 1 – SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA - HITO CAJON– LAGUNA VERDE – GEYSERES
You will be picked up from your central hotel in San Pedro de Atacama around 8 am to be taken to the border at Hito Cajon (border of Chile / Bolivia). After passing through the border formalities it is a short journey to reach Laguna Verde where we will see the emerald green waters of this mineral rich lake (n.b. only green if there is some wind churning up the mineral - if calm there is a beautiful reflection of the volcanoes). We then head towards the geysers Sol de Mañana to witness the bubbling hot mud pools and shooting of steam many meters into the air. Next stop will be Laguna Colorada - a fascinating lake with red water and we can see many flamingos feeding along its shores. Here we will stay in a basic hotel for the night (shared accommodation and no shower).
DAY 2 - LAGUNA COLORADA - DESIERTO DE SILOLI - LAGUNA HONDA - SAN JUAN
We depart on this second day after breakfast around 8 am and we have a chance to see Laguna Colorada again as we pass by a different side of the lake. We will travel through the Siloli desert area and see surreal rock formations. Further along today we pass by Laguna Honda to witness its sulphury smell and pass by some other high altiplano lakes. In the evening we arrive in the town of San Juan where we will stay the night.
DAY 3 – FULL DAY ON SALT FLATS - SALAR DE UYUNI
Today we will visit the amazing salt flats. Here we will see the ojos del sal were water is bubbling up through holes in the Salar, we will see where local workers gather salt into mounds and visit Isla Incahausi where we will find giant cacti and have great panoramic views of the surrounding salt flats. After leaving the salt flats we will visit the town of Colchani to see how the salt is processed and you can also ask your driver if he can take you to the Train Cemetery for the final stop on the tour before arriving in Uyuni. There will be plenty of time to stop and take photographs of the incredible salt flats throughout the day before we return to Uyuni in the evening around 3-5 pm.
Crossing Andes from Mendoza to Santiago de Chile with Helicopter EC130B4 - CC-CUE - part 3
Finally, after 1 hour, we passed the lowest point where there is the Cristo Redentor. 3850 meters ASL. We add to care about down winds but finally find a good track to pass. Very impresive....
Driving over Mapocho River to The Singular Hotel, Santiago, Chile, 2019-01-22
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Aerial view was taken during 9.30 pm. While the full moon rising at Mount Andes. The wind on top is strong...and sometime too risky to fly near too. Play safe. Clip taken with Phantom 3 Advance
(1080p) LATAM Chile (LA440) Airbus A320 CC-BAY: Andes crossing and landing at Santiago de Chile
Full approach into Santiago de Chile with the crossing of the Andes in full 1080p.
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Chilean guy playing a wind instrument in Santiago de Chile
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1. Chile has the world’s largest outdoor swimming pool at the San Alfonso del Mar Resort. Set along the coastline, it is larger than 20 Olympic swimming pools and holds 66 million gallons of water. The pool is also in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the world’s deepest at 115 feet and costs £2 million pounds (US$3.25 million) to maintain it.
2. Easter Island—Isla de Pascua, in Spanish, or Rapa Nui, in Polynesian—is the best known of Chile’s Pacific Islands. It lies 2,300 miles (3,700 km) off the coast. Originally called Te Pito O Te Henua (Navel of the World) by the first Polynesian settlers over 1,500 years ago, Easter Island gained its current name when Admiral Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman, stumbled upon it on Easter Day in 1772.
3. Chile is the longest country in the world from north to south at 2,647 miles (4,620 km) long and extends across 38 degrees of latitude. The Andes Mountain Range extends the entire length of the country north to south.
4. Chile’s Atacama Desert is the driest desert in the world. Parts of the Atacama have not seen a drop of rain since recordkeeping began. The Atacama is also home to geoglyphs, or large drawings made from stones, arranged on the side of the mountains. The Gigante de Atacama (Atacama Giant), located at Cerro Unitas, is the largest prehistoric anthropomorphic figure in the world at 390 feet (119 m) high and supposedly represents a deity for the indigenous people, from A.D. 1000 to 1400.
5. Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was marooned for about four years on Chile’s Islas Juan Fernández, located 364 miles (587 km) west of Valparaiso. After being rescued, he published his story of survival and was said to be the inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s classic novel Robinson Crusoe
6. Santiago, the capital city, is also the largest city in Chile. Roughly one-third of the country’s population of 18 million lives in Santiago.
7. Chile is one of the few countries on earth that has a government-supported UFO research organization. Chile’s Central District has had so many reported UFO sightings over the past 20 years that in 2008, the town of San Clemente opened a 19-mile UFO trail that winds through the Andes Mountains, whose plateaus apparently make great landing pads for the UFOs.
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Travel to Chilean Patagonia (Torres del Paine) | Full Documentary
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The Torres del Paine National Park is located in the Chilean Patagonia, in an area of climatic contrasts that have allowed a great variety of plant and animal species. Located in the middle of the Andean range, the Paine massif lends its name to the National Park. The mountains, with peaks in excess of 3,000 metres, mark a diving line which differentiates two completely different areas.
- To the west of the range, on the Pacific side, moisture-laden winds collide with the slopes and releases their rain, which hardly ever reaches the other face. It is a cold and wet side, characterised by rocks, forests and ice.
- On the east slope, where rain hardly ever falls, large plains extend as far as the Atlantic, the steppe gradually transforming into quasi-desert.
The entire relief of the Patagonian Andean range has a pronounced glacial character.
Thaw waters arriving from the Paine massif irrigate both slopes. There are a multitude of rivers and large glacial lakes are spread throughout the park.
Waterfowl, ñandues, armadillos, geese and foxes are some of the most numerous species of the park, although there is an animal that stands out above all because it is the most characteristic of Patagonia: the guanaco.
Of the four South American camels, it is the most adaptable and can live from sea level up to a height of 4000 metres.
There is a stable population of them in Torres del Paine. The young males congregate in herds of approximately 30 until the age of five, when they reach sexual maturity. At this moment, they separate form the group and seek their own territory and females and form a new family.
The guanaco herds divide the Torres del Paine brushland and pre-desert into marked territorial areas. Each group has a dominant male, which does not allow any of the adolescents to mate with its females and an inflexible hierarchy is established.
In the mating season, these dominant males have to reaffirm their position in face of new candidates and there are frequent chases, biting, and spitting of gastric juices and partially digested matter.
Although their distribution is highly restricted by the pressure of man, something of the ancient totemic respect of the South American Indians continues to impregnate the figure of the guanaco. Some inhabitants of the region still approach areas where herds have spent the night to collect earth sodden with urine and excrement. They form small balls out of it and use it in the form of pills as medicine for different bodily and spiritual ailments.
In the same way as the Patagonians admired the guanaco, the Incas worshipped the condor like god. For them, it was the “Lord of the Andes”, a mythological animal which inspired them with respect and veneration.
The Andean condor is the largest bird of prey in the world and the largest flying bird. With a span of almost four metres and weighing up to 12 kilos, this majestic flyer requires air currents in order to fly. Its enormous muscles only allow it to make thirty consecutive wing movements before fallin in exhaustion, which is why they are generally to be seen planing in circles until reaching heights of over 6,000 metres.
How to load a mule: Horseback riding mountain camping in the Andes near Santiago, Chile
Chilean arrieros prepare for a horseback ride into the Andes mountains near Santiago for a camping trip, With thanks to Rigo and Leo, expert arrieros living and working in the foothills of the Andes in the Cajon del Maipo, near Santiago, Chile.
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Mule camping
Horse riding with camping in the Andes mountains near Santiago depends on having not only horses but also mules. Mules are used to carry the heavy loads of food and drink and camping equipment -- tents, sleeping bags, air-mattresses - needed for even just one night's camping. There are no roads in this part of the mountains, apart from an occasional badly rutted and damaged track just passable with a powerful 4X4 vehicle. Horses are not used much in Chile as pack animals as they are mostly too valuable and also not as agile or strong as mules. Mules are bred from a donkey father and a horse mother and they cannot reproduce. The 'machos' or males are especially strong and can carry 120 kilos or more 0n their backs.
However, they have to be skilfully loaded to make the baggage secure and to avoid giving the mules sores from the rubbing of the ropes and harness. Arrieros, Chilean cowboys, must have this skill, which distinguishes them from others who may be excellent horsemen but cannot handle mules. Mules are also more temperamental and bad tempered than horses. They can be dangerous to riders on horseback along the trail, as they tend to bash around knocking things with the loads that they are carrying. If it is a big ride with several mules they will probably travel separately with a muleteer, to keep them out of the way of the riders. However, the joys of camping in the mountains cannot be experienced without some trustworthy hard-working mules to take up all the equipment. When we go on long rides we take everything with us. Dozens of cans of beer, boxes of wine and pisco sour, water for the tourists, all food for several days, sometimes feed for the horses and mules although at certain times of year these can be let loose overnight on the mountainside to forage for themselves.
The mules tend to attach themselves to a mare, who is known as the 'madrina' or godmother. She wears a bell round her neck so that the mules can be found if they have wandered a little way in search of pasture. If it is thought that they will wander, perhaps because there is not much grazing, she may be tied up so that they will not stray too far. Mules are said to be very comfortable to ride and more sure footed than horses. For that reason although tourists are not usually given them as mounts, you may well see and arriero guide riding on a mule. The paths are steep and sometimes narrow, in between rocks. There are few wide trails as in mountains which may be more accessible, less wild, than the Andes. This is difficult for the heavily laden mules. Sometimes the men take them on a different and easier route, perhaps going further round difficult parts of the trek to make it possible for the mules.
Camping on horseback in the Andes mountains is a pleasure almost impossible to describe, and it is not really possible without mules and men who know how to load them skilfully. . Although not all our rides go up to within touch of the snow we have special rides that do. The mule in our video is not blindfolded as it is a very quiet and rather old mule, but it is actually customary to blindfold them before loading as they react badly if they see a load approaching, but do not seem to mind as long as they do not see it. A true arriero often has a piece of cloth tied round his waist, for use with mules.
Because the skill with mules is rare and also important, the sign of a true arriero, we take you with 'arrieros de la zona'. They are local skilled cowboys with long experience with mules, learnt as boys on journeys with their fathers who were almost always arrieros as well. They worked horses and mules when agriculture depended on those methods. They also worked for the mines in the Andes, of which there were many, carrying materials up and down in tricky terrain. There are still mines of copper, and yeso. In the old days there were even small gold mines as well, and many small family mines. These have mostly gone and are replaced by big international conglomerates with roads and heavy machinery.
Our rides with mules and horses take place in other parts of the mountains near Santiago where heavy machinery cannot pass and most tracks are not much wider than a metre at most. In winter the snow is on the surrounding peaks and the views are spectacular.
Slope flying my little ANFRA II in the Andes Mountain Chile
Until the good winds go away in April, I'll try to solpe as much as I can...
Nothing like Slope flying in the Mountains, this little Anfra II (60 wing span, made from C.A.B.) performs really well.
Sailplane Grand Prix in the Andes
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7th South American of Scottish bands parade in Santiago, Chile
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The South American Meeting of Scottish Bagpipes Bands, also known as Gathering, is a biennial meeting that brings together the bands that are part of the Scottish Pipe Band Association of South America (SPBASA). The event calls for bands from Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Chile, along with renowned soloists from other countries, in a great musical encounter, with presentations, competitions and other activities.
In its seventh version, the meeting will be held for the second time in Santiago from November 23 to 26, 2017, organized by Santiago Metropolitan Pipe Band with more than 10 bands from the continent and a series of activities open to the public.
Solo Cycling Trip Across The Andes 3/3 - ARGENTINA
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Timelapse Santiago de Chile - Cordillera de Los Andes
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