Santiago, Chile Travel Blogs

Letting it Out

A travel blog entry by arichardson

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... lived or traveled in the western US has seen many sights like it. The mountain views were spectacular. In a sense, the area around Santiago has a climate much like Tucson, Arizona's, but the mountains are a whole heck of a lot taller. The cacti even look ...

Addendum to Buenos Aires

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 ...

Lobbing Shells Over the Andes

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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 ...

Changes

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For the last few days, I�ve 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 ...

In the beginning, there was an airport

A travel blog entry by nigelball

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... , so maybe that�s 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 ...

From Argentina to Chile!

A travel blog entry by thomaswguy

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... are 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 ...

A Mercedes with an Empty Tank

A travel blog entry by arichardson

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... or cleanliness, 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 Chile�s corrolary to the SAT. The students seem to pick the PUC over the ...

When dogs gang up on cars. Seriously.

A travel blog entry by travellingtans

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... a great sport about it and ran back to his base in much pain. We had a marathon drive from Pucon to Santiago, the capital of Chile. Unexpectedly, we didn’t see much of the aftermath from the earthquake that took place a few weeks before. There were ...

Getting Lost and Loving it!

A travel blog entry by semi-backpacker

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... lost, except I�m ridiculously bad with directions! I didn�t mind being lost, because I was enjoying the walk through residential Santiago neighborhoods, the likes of which weren�t featured on my tourist maps!! 2 hours later it was starting to get dark, ...

Close to the end

A travel blog entry by arichardson

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... Chilean, I am Chilean and I will die Chilean." From there, it was a bus to Pe�alol�n, 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 ...

Along the Muddy Mapocho

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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 ...

On Strike

A travel blog entry by arichardson

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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 ...

A Step Down

A travel blog entry by arichardson

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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 ...

My South America

A travel blog entry by you_know_zo

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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 ...

Spanish Eyes

A travel blog entry by shaunduvall

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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 ...

South American Sophistication

A travel blog entry by globedecker

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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 ...

It�s even got supermarkets!

A travel blog entry by caznjasonescape

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... London for just one day to go to Top Shop recently, so I couldn�t 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 ...

Going to the Island

A travel blog entry by sarah_s_america

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... 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! Can�t quite believe it, I never ...

Back to Smog Central

A travel blog entry by meercatvinny

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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 ...

Adios South America, Bonjour South Pacific

A travel blog entry by coopertrooper

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And so the end is near, the time has to come, to fly away from South America. The continent will be fondly remembered for a six month period traveling around spending about a month in each country. Too many highlights to mention here, but ...

Santiago

A travel blog entry by alexndean

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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 ...

Lost in a 'Catholic' Country

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... Perhaps, 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 ...

Santiago and Beyond

A travel blog entry by catters

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... through your country (and nearly into Argentina) I look forward to returning the favour one day. What can I say about Santiago... The hostel has a "pet" marijuana plant called "Bill" that gets walked out into the courtyard each afternoon for ...

Rendezvous in Santiago... and plenty of good wine!

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... telly! Afterwards (with the Boks having lost), at about 6pm, we set off to explore some of the city centre. Santiago is modern, clean and efficiently run; with its elegant buildings, wide avenues and extensive pedestrianised shopping area, it reminded ...

Sleepless in Santiago

A travel blog entry by nickiemoore

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... whirring, unable to tune out from the barking dogs down in the streets below. Fighting the lethargy we visited some of Santiago’s key sights, enjoying the blue sky and pleasant temperature, the autumn colours and long shadows. We sat on a bench in ...

The Andes - so near but yet so far

A travel blog entry by aussiepanda

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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 ...

Stopover in Santiago

A travel blog entry by rachel_john

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... over a month, staying in some of the ropiest backpackers accomodation I have ever experienced, it is a welcome break returning to Santiago. Andrew and Pauli�s flat now seems to be extremely large, clean, modern and spacious and even the healthy household ...

While my panpipes gently weep

A travel blog entry by dazzla

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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. ...

Hello South America... or is that Hola?!

A travel blog entry by tomsontravels

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So after a 13 hour flight that actually landed 3 hours before it set off (???) we arrived in Santiago in Chile. Even though we had slept a lot of the way we were so tired and jet lagged, its the first time I have felt like this on the trip and could ...

Chillin in Chile

A travel blog entry by you_know_zo

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OK, so we finally got on a bus to Santiago in Chile... it took some doing though because when we first got there, they told us there were still no buses... it turned out that wasn't the case though, and we managed to get a bus that morning, that went ...

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Letting it Out

Addendum to Buenos Aires

Lobbing Shells Over the Andes

Changes

In the beginning, there was an airport

From Argentina to Chile!

A Mercedes with an Empty Tank

When dogs gang up on cars. Seriously.

Getting Lost and Loving it!

Close to the end

Along the Muddy Mapocho

On Strike

A Step Down

My South America

Spanish Eyes

South American Sophistication

It�s even got supermarkets!

Going to the Island

Back to Smog Central

Adios South America, Bonjour South Pacific

Santiago

Lost in a 'Catholic' Country

Santiago and Beyond

Rendezvous in Santiago... and plenty of good wine!

Sleepless in Santiago

The Andes - so near but yet so far

Stopover in Santiago

While my panpipes gently weep

Hello South America... or is that Hola?!

Chillin in Chile