Santiago Travel Blogs - Page 11

As excerpted from my journal:Flight to Santiago from Dallas was quite empty, so I actually got some sleep.  As we were landing in Santiago, the sun was rising over the snow-capped Andes.  It was amazingly beautiful, and I was sitting on the wrong side of the plane!  I could not get u…

I flew from Aruba to Santiago through Miami again. It was quite an adjustment walking the streets of Santiago as it was winter, nothing like the heat on Aruba! I did not bring a coat and the only sweater I had couldn't stop the cold winds coming through. So the first thing I did was to buy 2 thick …

Storage space for old photos

Today after I woke up, we decided to hit up downtown Santiago.  We found our way over to the subway station, and someone who spoke more Spanish than me found out which way we needed to go.  We went to the area we were in the day before and found a restaurant to get lunch at.  I'm sta…

Farewell to Melbourne and to begin our Round-the-world trip.

Blog 2   Upon arriving at our hotel in Chile, once again free from expectations, I was really content to see the area we were staying in -- a nice suburban type neighborhood very near the inner city. It offered us a quiet place to collect ourselves after a very busy, sleepless first week in …

Aggressive Behavior in Chile               The people here are more aggressive than the people back in Buenos Aires. At first I thought it was just the area we were staying in, but as we traveled throughout the city, I’ve notice…

I woke up this morning depressed. I was dehydrated and hungry, and I had no cash, or a means to get cash.  I dreaded the day ahead of battling banks, ticket offices, airlines, electronics store salesmen, etc to get my trip back in order.  It got worse when I stumbled down to th…

My map

Last morning at the pooltaxi to bus stationbus to santiagobus to airportspending spree to shed pesosflight to paris

My impressions of Chile!! Initially, I compared everything to Buenos Aires and YES there were significant differences.  Everything seemed cleaner and less busy than BsAs.. The buildings and cars and people didn’t have the grey tinge of all the heavy pollution.  There were fe…

wooo... the big big city again! Santiago is HUGE lying and sprawling lazily (much like me on a sunday morning) between mountains. we took the opportunity to recharge our batteries with a shameless Thai curry meal (we have missed spicy food out here) and shopping (window.) the hostel and/or hostelb…

    As I sit in the Starbucks, happily using the speedy wireless internet, I start to see many comparisons between the Latin American city, Santiago, and the North American city of Birmingham, Alabama.  While yes, there are obvious differences, the workings of each city are craz…

3-4 days in Santiago, Chile!

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