Clarence Fisk is a Chilean gentleman who used to live in Chuquicamata, Chile, where I also lived. He has traveled extensively through South America and has shared some of his travel journals with me. He writes in Spanish, but if you don't read the language, I urge you to learn, or at least have the pages translated by an online translation service. You won't want to miss the trip details, the personal comments and the historical notes.
Clarence describes and names some of the individual falls, gives us a bit of history as well as a visit to Itapu Dam and the Parque de las Aves in Iguazu, Un Viaje Indescriptible.
Clarence describes his trip to Machu Picchu on a drizzly day and includes site usage with notes from his guide's talk. Read and browse through his photographs in Machu Picchu Photo Index. Machu Picchu and some of the places Clarence describes in his chronicle.
Viaje Por El Desierto De Huara, Tarapacá y Pisagua
An account, in Spanish by Clarence Fisk, of a trip into the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile includes the religious festival of La Tirana, a peak at old nitrate mines, the tamarugo forest, and a visit, in part two, to the Saltflat of Huasco, a surprising high-altitude wetlands. Follow along with the photo galleries and some descriptions in English.Santiago de Chile: Son Solo 15 Kilometros De Historia Part 1
This article is a multi-page account, with a large photo gallery, of his 15 kilometer walk beginning along Avenida Libertador Bernardo O´Higgins, more popularly known simply as La Alameda from General Velasquez and ending at Providencia and Tobalaba. During his eight-hour walk, he saw and photographed all of the national monuments and sculptures along the way.Follow the walk with the Santiago de Chile: Son Solo 15 Kilometros De Historia Photo Gallery with descriptions in English.
The article continues in Santiago de Chile: Son Solo 15 Kilometros De Historia Part 2Viaje Al Altiplano Chileno is an account of a multi-day trip to Northern Chile's altiplano, seeing parque Nacional del Rio Lauca, los Bofedales de Parinacota and Lago Chungara from Arica. Then
from Antogagasta to Chuquicamata with a trip to San Pedro de Atacama.
Viaje Por Los Canales Y Fiordos Del Sur De Chile takes us
through the canals and fjords of Southern Chile, describing the passage, glaciers, regional characteristics and life aboard the Skorpios III tour ship. In Spanish. Check out the slide show at
Fotos del Viaje Por Los Canales y Fiordos Del Sur De Chile with descriptions in English.La Virgen del Cerro San Cristóbal
This article, like the others contributed by Clarence Fisk, is in Spanish. It is an account of a visit to Cerro San Cristobal, or St, Christopher's Hill, in Santiago, Chile, on the occasion of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, 2003.
La Casa Colorada y la Historia de Chile
La Casa Colorada is one of the few remaining colonial buildings in Santiago. It houses the Museum of Santiago's history, including a number of dioramas representing key moments in the city and country's history. Some of these dioramas are displayed in the Casa Colorada Photo Gallery.
De Arboles y un Canal
Guest author Clarence Fisk takes us on a walk through Santiago streets to identify urban trees and flowering plants. Along the way, we learn a bit of history, and appreciate the scenery and greenery of Chile's capital through the photo gallery.
El Chiflón del Diablo en Lota
An account of guest author Clarence Fisk's visit to Lota, near Concepción, south of Santiago, to see the town, a fabulous park, and a coal mine, now open to visitors. The mine is called "El Chiflón del Diablo", or the Devil's Whistle, for the wind whistling through the tunnels. The text is accompanied by a photo gallery, with descriptions.