I picked up my hire car on Wednesday and drove to Valaparaiso on the coast. When I was staying in Santiago, my hotel was on Paseo Londres (London). My hotel in Valparaiso is the Hotel Brighton, so I´ve literally moved from London to Brighton. Incidentally, Paseo Londres joins onto one of the main streets in Santiago. This is the deliciously name...

Valparaiso Sensibly, I had muted expectations for Valparaiso. The book says, somewhat contemptuously, that some people just don't get the city. I reckoned that I had a pretty high risk profile. Valparaiso is on the tourist trail because there are cute little winding streets and brightly painted currogated iron houses. It is UNESCO listed, but UN...

Arriving in Valparaiso bus terminal we were greeting with a new situation, being the only backpacking tourists on the bus, but hordes of women trying to take us to their homestays. It all got a bit heated and occasionally looked like it might turn nasty. To be honest, we were having difficulty deciding which to go with, if any of them, so a batt...

Valparaiso is an amazing, beautiful, slummy, impractical city. Every morning it is covered in fog brought in on the Humboldt current, making it much cooler here than Buenos Aires at a similar latitude. There have been 2 earthquakes since we arrived, one which we failed to notice in the queues at the supermarket checkout (everyone in the wooden, ...

DAY ONE After paid the airport toll on the right line is the expressway to Valparaiso, a modern and safe road crossing tunnels and valeys with vineyard in the "The Wine Route" where you discover the secret and the magic of wine. Despues de la salida del peaje del aeropuerto se encuentra el desvío y conexión a la autopista a Valparaíso, una vía b...

Valparaiso Valparaiso is one of the most picturesque cities in South America. It has the perfect mixture of beautiful architecture, historic quarters, colorful hillside communities with boardwalk vistas overlooking the port at the Pacific Ocean, and perfect little romantic passageways hidden in a labyrinth of cobble stoned streets. Add museum-wo...

Saa har vi forladt min faetter Cristian, og hans familie i Temuco. Vi tog i aftes en natbus fra Temuco, og ankom i morges ,efter 10 timers korsel til Valparaiso. Valparaiso er den 2.storste by i Chile, og ligger ca 1,5 times korsel nord fra hovedstaden Santiaco. Bussen var faktisk super laekker, og vi er ud over alt forventning friske og udhvile...

Well, we had our first two excursions this week. On Wednesday we went to VinaMar, which is a vineyard in between Santiago and Vina del Mar. It is known for its good white wine, but not so much for its reds. One of the fellow adelante program students is an intern there and gave us the tour. I learned more about wine than I thought I ever could. ...

After a day in Santiago, I pretty much finished most of the sights I wanted to see. So next day, I made a daytrip to the Pacific port city of Valparaiso. Before I saw the movie "Motorcycle Diaries" (2004), I had never heard of the city of Valparaiso (aside from that this name is difficult to remember). In "Motorcycle Diaries," Che Guevara (playe...

Arrived in Valparaiso with Al and had a fun bbq with Neil and a whole heap of Viña people. Fun. Next day checked out more of Valparaiso with Al, just walking around town, there were tons and tons of people around, street bands and artists, big cop presence, everyone here for NYE. Then went to a dirty Valpo beach after getting lost on a bus. Lots...