Santiago Travel Blogs - Page 4

Buenos Aires, Mendoza and Santiago

Things are winding down in our trip around Latin America!! We've made it back to Santiago just in time to take our flight to New Zealand!! Well that's what we thought anyways!! Silly us, we were thinking we would just stroll up to the ticket counter and purchase our plane tickets just like that! N…

Last day in Santiago before jetting off to New Zealand. Headed up the mountains of Santa Lucia to see a 360 view of Santiago

Chile

This was the day to walk up the San Christobal hill, where the big status is. There is a cable car up one side and a funicular railway on the other, but we figured it would be nice to get some fresh pollution in the lungs and warm up the legs again. It is actually a pleasant walk up. The hill i…

We had a quick, whirl-wind stop in Santiago. We arrived around 3pm and had a flight leaving the early the next morning. Suprisingly, we were able to meet up wth a friend from Chile (met in New Zealand when we were both exchange students) who showed us a inside view of the city! We walked everywhere…

Map and some photos of my second trip around South America. Blogs coming soon! Argentina - Uruguay - Paraguay - Bolivia - Chile - Patagonia

Peru and Chile March 4-18, 2008 Under construction

Perú, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile... ...I across South America alone with my Diary

Visiting Northern Chile in November 2007.

We disembarked at Punta Arenas and flew a charted flight (a little over 3 hours) to Santiago before heading home tonight. We had a city tour of Santiago, went up a park high on a hill, where we had good view of the city.We flew from Santiago to Miami, then home to Los Angeles about 17 hours later, …

In the morning, I walked around downtown Santiago. It was winter, but my lasting impression was of the city being in earth tones. Everyhing seemed to be in earth tones, shades of brown.   Presidential Palace, Santa Lucia Hill, San Cristobal Hill, Prince of Wales Country Club

After a few days in Valapraiso we return to our Hostal.  This time we find the fish markets which are safer for tourists than the one in Valparaiso.  I try some scallops with parmesan...superb.  Beware the restaurant 'enticer', who asks where you come from and always has a relative w…

A Fam Trip to visit the Chilean Patagonia and the famous Torres del Paine.

5 months and 5 countries... so far just a few photos with writings to come