Monday, 16 October 2017

My best holidays: South of Chile


Well, when I think of my best holidays, I probably go back to my family trip around the south of Chile.
It was a long time ago, and I probably don’t remember the exact dates or places, but I keep missing these happy days I shared with my family.

It was on the summer of 2011, when we visited a lot of places in the south of Chile. We travelled as a family: my parents, my brother and sister. We all spent hours inside a car, making short stops to eat, or see an interesting setting. It took us, a few days to reach Puerto Montt (we started our trip in Santiago, our home town), because we rested and explored small villages. Now, I can remember some of them: San Fabián, Tucapel, around Chillán, and also larger cities like Valdivia, Concepción or Temuco.

We finally arrived at Puerto Montt, and it was then, when we decided to no longer continue the travel. Instead of that we walked a lot in te city, and then we spent some calm days in Caburgua and Pucón.
Besides the experience of knowing new places, we also had some rest in the beaches (the lakes), did some reading, one day we took a boat and -of course- we ate insanely (that’s sort of a tradition in my family).
We didn’t even realize how fast these holidays went over. I think it was around ten days we were together. When we returned to Santiago, all we did was talk about our trip (it was the first time we travelled under Rancagua, so it was like the first time we were in ‘the south’).


Today I think this were important holidays, because it united my family and created joyful memories we keep remembering.

Monday, 2 October 2017

A country I would like to visit

I really like travelling. That is something I have known for a long time now. I remember enjoying the prevous hours of the trip in my childhood holidays, planning and thinking all the things to do in wherever place we were going. The excitement I felt about trips haven’t changed in all this years.

It’s not easy, however, to choose a specific country I would like to visit. First of all, because as you may have noticed, it could be said that I like the trip, the way, the road, rather than the place itself. And second, because there are so many places I want to know.

But, if you force me to choose somewhere, I would have to say: India, even when I really hope to visit Middle East and México someday (very close in my personal ranking). But India is more interesting to me, because of all the diversity it has. The extension of the country is quite big, and it has different weathers, areas, peoples, and what I like the most: a lot of cultural expressions, rituals, sacred constructions. So, I would like to visit a lot of  this places, and see the people’s religion, parties, traditions, etc. I am realizing that here it’s clear why I decided to study anthropology.  Sorry, I can’t avoid it.

Perhaps, I would like to work in there, because I am very curious about the Indians life, but also think that I would feel a little home-sick, to be honest. I have to say that although I like to travel, I don’t see myself spending more than one or two years away from home.