A Chunk of Chile with a Dash of South America

Living and travelling in South America from our base in Chile since 1997. I have personally experienced the extremes here, living in a shed without a bathroom in a poor dangerous part of town to the other extreme of having an elegant dinner with the President at the palace. This blog is about things that I have done or that have caught my attention here as well as travel information that may be useful.

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Kiss the Indian's big toe



This is a video of the famous statue at the Plaza de Armas (Main Square) of Punta Arenas in the deep south of Chile.

The tradition is that if you kiss the Big Toe of the indian, you will return back to Punta Arenas one day. That's why the video starts with a shot of that very toe and the reason it is so shiny compared to the reason of the statue. I also filmed as I walked around the statue so that you can see it from every side and finally I took some close ups of different parts of the it.

Have you ever kissed the indian's big toe?

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Videos of Plaza Italia Buenos Aires

These are a couple of short videos we took of Plaza Italia in the Palermo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.


This first one is a 360ยบ panoramic view of the square and surrounding areas:





The following video zooms in on the the statue for a closer look at the details:




If you would like more information about the square visit our following page: Plaza Italia.

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