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Valparaiso Slideshow
Valparaiso
Travel Blogs from Valparaiso, Chile
valpô
the last leg of our trip was spent along the Chilean coast in the towns of Valparaíso and Vina del Mar. Valparaíso might have been a bit of culture shock for us, it being the first real city/non-adventure-jump-off-town we have visited. ...
Santiago...
Hola, pues ya les escribo desde tierras del sur... Ahora estoy ya en Argentina, en Mendoza pero les cuento de los primeros días del viaje, que han estado super tranquilos: estuve dos días en Santiago, quedándome en la casa de los primos chilenos ...
A glimpse of Valparaiso and Viña del Mar
... we refueled on fresh grilled salmon and Pisco Sours before beginning our time warp back to the beautiful and rustic, Valparaiso. Lindsey's Memorable Moment - Driving through the steep, winding hills of Valparaiso to get to our hostel. Kristen's ...
Valparaiso
... some hostels no-one makes an effort to talk but at this hostel everyone made an effort to say hello. Valparaiso used to be the major port in Chile now it's a shadow of its former self but what is left is a beautiful town with colourful houses ...
Long trip to Valparaiso
... out that there are no direct buses between Santa Cruz and Valparaiso so I had to take a bus to Santiago first and then to Valparaiso. Going through Santiago today was exactly what I didn´t want to do, but I had no choice. The bus terminal in ...
The Jewel of the Pacific
Valparaíso is a great town and I wish I had had an extra day to explore it a bit more, but if we were to make it to Pucon, and have time to enjoy it, we must move on. We arrived into town a bit later than we should of because our shenanigans the night ...
TOURS - Vineyards, the beach and major sites
... is a very popular tourist destination. We then went on to vino del mar, a more modern city, basically still attached to Valparaiso but the buildings are much newer. Back to Santiago and hopefully off to tea soon, I´m hoping for pizza. ...
Do I look like a mountain goat?
... get some nice pictures though. After the beach we took the elevator to the top of Concepcion, the oldest part of Valparaiso, that has Victorian houses and cute shops. It was really nice to just wonder around and discover plazas and other ...
Santiago also
There was little seen of Valparaiso as the trip was to Santiago. The city is large, clean and welcoming, although we were warned about theft. Saw the usual sites and had a late but tasty lunch. The only down thing about the day was we ...
valpraiso
... busy road, colonial buildings and a huge “Ripley” department store that we have seen in every large city in Chile. I walked along towards the central plaza, with open carriages drawn by horses available to take tourists around the city. Parked ...
My life is awkward
... use more help with my Spanish. On the classes front I have hit a bit of an obstacle. My Art and Society in Prehispanic Chile class, sucks. I am a history kid, and even I thought it was painfully dull. I think I'm going to have to drop that. In ...
Halloween
... McDonalds here its 'mAcdonalds'...they put that extra A in there! At night I met up with one of the guys from Techo Para Chile and we went to Cafe Journal, then met up with Jessie and the three of us went to the beach, drank some pisco and ...
Valparaiso - Beaching it up
... and drinking some beer (and getting burnt). After a good nights sleep in a proper bed we spent the day walking around Valparaiso enjoy the colourful buildings and cool graffiti. The following day the sun decided to take the morning off. Therefore we ...
Poetry by the sea
... but the upside is that things function quite well. Anyway, our first idea when arriving in Santiago was to go to Valparaiso. I confess that this was initially from watching the Motorcycle Diaries movie / reading the book, but further research suggested it ...
What a day, what a life, I'm in love...
... (the port). Long story short, we ended up on a boat with Pablo and a bottle of vino to watch the sunset over Valparaiso and Vina. The most surprising part of this trip were sea lions who decided to join us for our late afternoon cocktail hour. (See ...
Oct 25, 2009
Valparaiso - Christmas away from home
... . Unfortunately, the water temperature is similar to that in New Zealand as well, so the swimming didn’t really eventuate. Valparaiso itself is a magical looking place, with colourful houses sweeping down to the sea. We had a quick walk through Vina ...
Valparaiso
Del desierto de Mendoza a la costa chilena de Valparaiso, pasando por las impresionantes montañas nevadas del Parque Nacional del Aconcagua. Este fue nuestro trayecto para llegar a esta encantadora ciudad, tambien conocida como Valpo, declarada ...
Paint it.....all...
The seaside town of Valparaiso (or Valpo as it's known) is home to the largest collection of street art I've seen outside of Bristol. The main town itself is quite ugly, the seaside is quite non-existant being a large trading and naval port (you have to ...
Nur wegen der Schnitzelnacht...
... zu essen. Der Weg von Pichilemu nach Vicuna ist für einen Tag zu lang, also unterbrechen wir die Fahrt für eine Nacht in Valparaiso. Da wir beim Hotel El Mirador eine Küche im Appartement zur Verfügung haben, geht es nach einem Großeinkauf in die ...
Valparaiso is an unexpected treat
Valparaiso and Vina del Mar, Chile Valparaiso was a surprise - a lovely hilly city, covered entirely with two-storey tightly-packed ornate Victorian houses and flats. Sailing into a city gives one an interesting perspective, coming straight into a busy ...
Valparaiso - backpack free!
... around 20 minutes in the wrong direction we eventually managed to find the beach. In the early 1900's many of the affluent left Valparaiso and moved here, you can still tell why the rich preferred it as it far less rough around the edges and there are ...
Made it to Valparaíso
I made it to Valparaiso around noon after a nice hour and a half bus ride from Santiago. Valparaíso is located on the Pacific coast. The city has two parts, a flat downtown and the surrounding hills. I'm staying at a bed and breakfast ...
The Chilean Joker
We woke up too late to head into the Andes Mountains, so we spent additional time in Santiago to absorb the atmosphere. One of the things Ilove to do is compare places I'm not familiar with to those that I am... not necessarily in a bad way, but as a ...
Thanksgiving
Hello everyone, This is a pre- mass email. Since I'm so far away on this special day I just wanted to write you all to say Happy Thanksgiving. I know I have so much to be thankful for, and I'm especially thankful to all of you who ...
Chile's Capital of Culture
... is the eve of Chile's Independence Day there is a firework display planned for midnight. So we head up to the viewpoint with half of Valparaiso to look across the entire city for the best view of the show. And what a show! They really went to town on the ...
'Valpo' baby!
... were covered in the most fanatastic art work and grafitti that made it such an interesting area to walk around. The appeal of Valparaiso was definitely growing. We ensured we got our fix of the true traditional Chilean fare, the Completo (A hotdog but not ...
Chillin in Chile
... There are not many tourist attractions in Valpo, but the cities layout and style make it a well worthy stopover in Chile. After Valparaiso, I headed north to a small surf village called Ritoque. Ritoque is hardly a settlement, consisting of ...