Santiago, Chile Travel Blogs

... give all of us in the program, gathered together, the chance to voice and to sort out our issues with Chilean culture and Santiago life. And believe me, there were more than a few. My complaints about life here in Chile can be rationalized, for the most ...

A travel blog entry by arichardson
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I'd like to add an addendum to that last entry, because someone I know made an interesting point. A friend of my father, who is married to an argentine woman, questioned my assertion that Argentines were somehow beyond defining their identity-that they ...

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... Americans) looked down on Chileans. For days and months, now, I've been assessing my decision to study in Chile. How comfortable am I in Santiago? What do I think of Chileans as a people? And visiting Buenos Aires last week meant visiting the other ...

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For the last few days, Iīve dropped off the face of the earth. My first Chilean family, during my two weeks there, invited four foreign exchange students (not including myself)to live in the house. Before welcoming me into their home, they signed a ...

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... side, so maybe thatīs why). By some miracle, all components arrived in South America intact. As I was rebuilding it in the foyer of Santiago airport, I looked up to see that I had drawn quite a crowd. Then a couple of taxi drivers tried to get a tip out of ...

A travel blog entry by nigelball
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... plenty of people to chat to..... or just veg out to a movie. Anyways, the pass was fine and so was our arrival into Santiago Chile! We completed another wine tour, this time at a winery called concha y toro, it was not as good as some of the other ...

A travel blog entry by thomaswguy
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... it somehow makes up for in its ability to stick to a schedule. The PUC, the catholic university in Santiago, usually enrolls the students who score highest on Chileīs corrolary to the SAT. The students seem to pick the PUC over the Universidad de Chile, ...

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... born Chilean, I am Chilean and I will die Chilean." From there, it was a bus to Peņalolén, a poorer eastern barrio of Santiago which, 25 years ago, was in the country. Here, the Pinochet government took the land and estate of a wealthy Chilean leftist ...

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... is in central Santiago, and is shaped like a cellular phone, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Telefonica_building_in_Santiago_Chile.jpg) Chile, after all, has produced a few famous artists-Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral and Violeta Parra are the easy ...

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... the way. Another interesting note, the tram door never did close all the way...things that make you go hmmm... Exploring Santiagoīs Great Neighborhoods We were dropped off in a different part of town, walked accross the canal-like  Mapocho  ...

A travel blog entry by semi-backpacker
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... been able to organize in a way I doubt Americans ever could. True, the Internet is a great help, but the conditions in Santiago and in Chile are ripe for this kind of action. Two thirds of the country lives in cities. One third of the country lives in ...

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... plan to take advantage of the quiet to get caught up. In other news, I've acquired an internship here in Santiago, helping out a freelance foreign correspondent named Jonathan Franklin. Technically, he works for London's "The Guardian," but has written ...

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... 't kept up with my summaries of each country.. but that's mostly because I didn't really feel anything about Argentina or Chile... I don't think I spent enough time outside the cities to really feel anything, apart from the need to go out and socialise...& ...

A travel blog entry by you_know_zo
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... had a long journey ahead of us? Well, I meant long in terms of distance. We didn't get the bus back from San Pedro to Santiago, we flew instead. Although, we nearly didn't get to do either!! The night before we left we managed to discover a low cost ...

A travel blog entry by meercatvinny
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... London for just one day to go to Top Shop recently, so I couldnīt believe it had made it to Chile!(Yes I am as sad as you think...) Santiago really is like a different world to other SA capitals: there are virtually no indigenous faces, the culture is ...

A travel blog entry by caznjasonescape
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... is friendly and open and just sort of talk to us anyway - so yep, 3 days in and were loving Chile more than we expected. We arrived at Santiago after the 11plus hours flight from Auckland  I had at the last minute emailed our hotel and asked for an ...

A travel blog entry by themurphys
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... only had one english speaker, who isnt around all the time. Determined to avoid jet lag, went for a walk to downtown Santiago, which upon first impression is very nice - very European, wide boulevards, lots of shops, and very very busy. Luckily ...

A travel blog entry by shaunduvall
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... finally came to an end issuing in a period of democracy that has continued to the present day. She Said: I first heard of Santiago playing the computer game "Where in the World is Carmen Santiago" when I was a kid. It always sounded so exotic and ...

A travel blog entry by globedecker
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Today was a day to catch up on relaxation. We spent the whole day, evening and night by the pool and bar. It was good to chill out for the day. Not much else to report really.

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We went into town to do some shopping today. Bought a few bits and bobs that we needed, and plenty of stuff that we probably don't! Still can't get a signal on my phone, which is probably good after Forest's recent form! We spent the late afternoon ...

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... lunch as the flight doesn't leave until 2.35, go to the duty free and buy chucaca to make the caipirinhas.  Plane to Santiago is a newly refurbed 767.  Great seats, widescreen tvs in the head backs, hundreds of movies, TV shows, 300 CDs etc etc ...

A travel blog entry by aussiepanda
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... Just yesterday found a special offer to go, and it coincided so nicely with my plans that I have now got myself lickety-split to Santiago, and will be spending all of 36 hours here before jetting of to the South Pacific! Canīt quite believe it, I never ...

A travel blog entry by sarah_s_america
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... of continuing south to the lake district where it would have been difficult to get home in an emergency, I decided to leave from Santiago. I only had a month to go anyway, but depending on how long the old girl lasts I might still get back there yet. ...

A travel blog entry by dazzla
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We arrived back in Santiago Friday morning.... and would fly out  midnight Sunday...so the entry title is "Santiago - and back to our Bar"...  cos that was the big plan for our last 2 nights before heading home...and we were soooooooooooooooooo ...

A travel blog entry by themurphys
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The decision has been made to stay in Santiago until Saturday and basically do b*gger all. It's 30-35 degrees here and clear blue skies. It's going to remain this way for the foreseeable future as well. We have a nice pool and bar area here at the hostel ...

A travel blog entry by vickersontour
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... hard to get my head around that it was yesterday once more (shooby-doo lang-lang). I've spent a few days wandering around Santiago and took the funicular up to the Cerro San Cristobal above the city where unfortunately the smog was too bad to see the ...

A travel blog entry by dazzla
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... obviously wobbling around again by the end! We all flopped back onto the minibus, dropped on another dodgy DVD and headed off to Santiago. We arrived back at about 6.30pm. This gave us time to nip to the supermarket to grab some food. We were booked ...

A travel blog entry by vickersontour
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... walk around the city. First place we came to was a Palace called "Palacio de la Moneda". It's a really grand place with all the Chile flags waving about outside. We had a walk up to the entrance and asked a guard - in Spanish - if we could get a photo ...

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... , I thought, this lack of concern was the very proof of a Chilean identity increasingly independent of the Church. Chile, in fact, just inducted a socialist, agnostic, divorcee into the presidency. Perhaps the forceful imagery of the banner and the ...

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... at about mid day and our original plan had been to jump straight on a bus head straight to Mendoza but Dean was full of cold and not feeling up to it so we postponed the journey for a day, got our Santiago orientation and checked out a movie - very lazy!

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