• Nathalie's Color Travels #1: Chile Part 1
• Nathalie's Color Travels #3: Cambodia Part 1
• Nathalie's Color Travels #4: Cambodia Part 2

Nathalie’s Color Travels #2: Chile Part 2

Photoreportage by Nathalie Gaullier

Stylist and Ciba^® XYMARA™ colleague Nathalie Gaullier has taken a year out to travel the world. During this time, she will continue to inspire us by reporting on her travels, bringing us the sights, the colors, the energy and the atmosphere of those faraway places. Now here’s more from her first stop: Punta Arenas, the world’s southernmost city! Click on the photos to open up larger versions.

Alsace touch

Maybe through past immigration from Germany, decorative “sticks” remain on some houses. This is actually a newly constructed area close to the house where I live.

Seafood

A little shop in my street selling seafood. The owner must be a fisherman. The fishing industry represents about 12% of Chile’s total export earnings and, as of April 2007, Chile is now the world’s second largest producer of farmed fish, just behind Norway.

Frozen

A frozen street perpendicular to the Ovejero (the street where I live).

Plastic bags

Plastic bags pinned on barbed wire in the wind

Salmon house

Another street close to where I live, found while I was walking around.

Dog street

There are 8,000 dogs registered without owner in Punta Arenas so when you are walking you often get a four-legged companion for a few hundreds of meters.

The streets, the gardens, even the houses and their fences don’t look like ours in Switzerland! Some gardens turn into storage places for pieces of wood and any other building materials for use one day. Some houses turn into shelters. With the snow and the rain, the pedestrian paths often turn into mud trails.

Blue roofs

I was having a walk not very far from where I live and I came across this group of blue roofed houses.

Colored roofs

A main feature of Punta Arenas is its colored roofs. You see this in this picture taken when I was having a walk not far from where I live.

Wind

Wind effect on plastic bags. In the distance is the unused field in front of the house where I live.