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This Month in Photos – The Dandy Dozen for March 2013
Sucre, Bolivia - Back in the early days of Piran Café, some five-plus years ago, I published a monthly review of what I considered to be the best photos I shot during the previous month. (As an example here's a summary for 2008.) I'm going to give that project a restart today, but with a twist, pushing my personal preferences aside and compiling…
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Via the U.N. Mine Action Service Facebook page, noting today’s United…
Via the U.N. Mine Action Service Facebook page, noting today's United Nations’ International Day for Mine…
Dirty Wars, a Trans-Andean Bus Ride and a Left Jab on the Street – Piran Café’s…
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Sucre, Bolivia - Before plunging headlong into April (and my second day of Spanish language classes!) and in case…
Neruda to be Exhumed – Isla Negra, Revisited
And there are corpses,
feet made of cold and sticky clay,
death is inside the bones,
like a barking where there…
Valley of the Moon (Pic du Jour)
This is the Valley of the Moon, or, Valle de la Luna, a valley about 15 kilometers west of San Pedro de Atacama…
Tito and Pinochet: A Wholly Unscientific 12-Second Comparison of the Pop Culture…
The full title of this aside:
TITO AND PINOCHET: A WHOLLY UNSCIENTIFIC 12-SECOND COMPARISON OF THE POP CULTURE…
Exhibit: Prints, Independence and Revolution – MAC Santiago
Here are about a dozen shots I snapped from the exhibit Estampas, Independencia y Revolucion last week, currently…
Storm Cloud Sunset Over the Andes
I watched this incredible storm cloud formation over the Andes, just to the east of San Pedro de Atacama,…
20 Minutes in Santiago’s Mercado Central
the Wordpress Photo Challenge for the week is 'Future Tense', asking us to catch a glimpse of the proverbial…
View from Pablo Neruda’s Bar at Isla Negra
Your 73-second mental health break for the day: the view towards the Pacific from the bar of Pablo Neruda's home…
Desfontainia spinosa, in the Wild
I came across this beauty a few weeks ago on a hike through the Sendero Bosque Encantado, or Enchanted Forest…
Los Libertadores Pass – Mendoza to Santiago by Bus
If any bus ride can be forgiven for being stretched from seven hours to nearly eleven, it's this one, linking…
Lunchtime (Pic du Jour)
Didn't this dude's momma teach him not to chew with an open mouth?
Lunchtime is the theme for this week's…
Dam Project Threat Still Looms Large in Chilean Patagonia
I reached the northern terminus of southern Chile’s Carretera Austral last week, just after Tuesday slid into…
Landmark Operation Condor Trial Underway in Buenos Aires
Late is always better than never.
A landmark trial charging 25 former high-ranking military and political…
Chaiten Volcano, Five Years Later, Revisited
I posted a few photos from Chaitén a couple days ago, a quick survey of some of the damage still visible in this…
Punta Arenas to Puerto Natales by Bus (With Video!)
I’ve received several messages in recent weeks from travelers seeking details on bus travel between various…
Minefields, Guanaco, and the Magellan Strait – Ushuaia to Punta Arenas by Bus
I’ve received nearly a dozen messages over the past few weeks from travelers seeking details on bus travel between…
Chaitén Volcano, Five Years Later
I arrived in Chaitén late last night, a small town about 160 kilometers south of the port city of Puerto Montt,…
Lost in the Details – Weekly Photo Challenge
After a week of doing next to nothing but recharging --and doing it very slowly-- I said goodbye to Puyuhuapi…