Stage 15 - Sunday 18 January 2009 | Buenos Aires
Travel diary
Judith Tomaselli, a motor-sports journalist, has traveled throughout this last year through the regions visited by the Dakar. Check out the official site for here impressions and photos.
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On the Bellavista, Alegre and Concepción hills, the houses are painted in the colors of the boats that bob on the bay’s waters, the noise of the town is far away and time seems eternal…
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On the Bellavista, Alegre and Concepción hills, the houses are painted in the colors of the boats that bob on the bay’s waters, the noise of the town is far away and time seems eternal…
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On the Bellavista, Alegre and Concepción hills, the houses are painted in the colors of the boats that bob on the bay’s waters, the noise of the town is far away and time seems eternal…
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La Sebastiana
/PHOTOS/DAK/2009/carnetderoute/repos-04.jpgA visit to La Sebastiana, the house of Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize winner for literature, will transport you into the time and life of the famous poet.
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From the top of Alegre hill, there is an unrivalled view of the port that welcomes so many travelers about to tackle Cape Horn, as well as of this phantasmagoric city, unique in the world.
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In Valparaiso, artistry is the watchword… even the walls are painted in lively colors and here, the dustbins are designed to represent "micros", the minibuses that crisscross the city.
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A vestige of late 19th century technology, the lifts creak and climb up the flanks of the hills.
Valparaiso
Valparaiso the bohemian, Valparaiso the artistic, Valparaiso the pearl of the Pacific… The magic of the Valparaiso of Pablo Neruda, a mixture of Havana and San Francisco revisited in a baroque spirit.
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