Miscellany

[NP Torres del Paine] Campamento Chileno – a Czech sticker I couldn't miss on a window of the camp (“Livingstone”)

[El Calafate] One of the many eat-as-much-as-you-can restaurants; mutton is roasted on the open fire

[El Calafate] Wind, a lot of wind – it is Patagonia

[Villa O'Higgins] A tree trunk covered in mushrooms (a type unknown to me); I didn´t have the courage to prepare them for dinner

[Baker River] Nalca (Gunnera tinctoria) is a welcome source of fluid. Similar to rhubarb, it is eaten stewed or used as an ingredient in cakes.

[Near Coyhaique] A billboard for fishing at the lake

[Near Chaitén] Even the fuselage was originally part of the house

[Chonchi] The billboard of a local tinsmith and heating engineer

[Castro] In churches, heating is provided by gas bottles (skilfully covered by cloths)

[Los Lagos] Graffiti in the town centre

[Termas de Palguín] The information board concerning the water temperatures in various types of healing baths

[Pucón] A "Jihotrans" sticker in the camp (ie. a Czech bus company)

[Temuco] Such a naughty statue among saints – how revolting!

[Santiago de Chile] There is no King Donkey Ears portrayed on the University corner but the contemporary Chilean president with donkey ears (burro)

[Antofagasta] In the port there are 5-meter sized tyres ready for the outsized trucks from the Chuquicamata mine at Calama

[Antofagasta] Hairdresser Lenka – a Czech trace in Antofagasta

[Antofagasta] Lyceum students are on strike, they hung chairs on the fence

[Near Calama] Some memorials of road accident victims are really elaborate

[Pueblo de Machuca] You can´t stop progress: solar panels on a straw roof

[Pueblo de Machuca] Each house was provided with a cross

[Laguna Hedionda] It is strictly forbidden to urinate around the lagoon: it is obvious from the sign that this applies to women too!

[Laguna Hedionda] In the Los Flamingos hotel they have a special relationship to bottles; apart from this artefact they built walls out of them

[Chiquana] Paper flowers on the new grave brought some colours to the local grey

[Chiquana] Military artistic creativity also flourishes in Bolivia; the rough-cast tank in the foreground is lovely, isn´t it?

[Incahuasi Island] Jawa 350 dominates the youth hostel

[Near Tunapa] An example of a sensitive setting of the new building into the existing housing

[La Paz] Bolivian shower – electric flow-heater with very shoddy electro-installation; the less water, the warmer it gets