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Valparaiso Slideshow
Valparaiso
Travel Blogs from Valparaiso, Chile
Hills, mountains and the ocean
... , chilling, while listening to Chilled out music and travel with an Irish guy. Then again stranger things have happened on this trip. Valparaiso has got it all. Really steep hills to climb and the beautiful pier. It is the a very large city and a very ...
A Bohemian paradise
... cut-outs, and across the harbour the lights of the well-heeled neighbouring town Vina del Mar. In fact, Chileans ignore Valparaiso, holidaying in Vina, but now that UNESCO has declared Valparaiso a world heritage area, it is on the international ...
Laatste halte in Zuid Amerika
... grijze boten op mijn foto's zijn. We hebben op de 30e Viña del Mar bezocht, een stadje dat in het verlengde ligt van Valparaiso, een baai verderop. Er is daar een groot openlucht theater en we hebben er langs het strand gewandeld. Het strand is er erg ...
Valparaiso
... are streets named after him in all the towns we have been in... good on ya Mr. O'Higgins. The place to stay in Valparaiso is up on the many hills, called Cerros, that overlook the town. Our hostel was really really nice, called Luna Sonrisa, the ...
Crossing the Pacific
... in A la Australia and New Zealand). We were bypassing the city of Santiago itself and heading directly for the coastal city of Valparaiso. We headed from the airport to the bus station of Pajaritos, on the outskirts of the city. We could see the towering ...
Valparaiso
This is a top pick! Today, we took a bus an hour and a half west of Santiago to a harbor city called Valparaiso. Valparaiso is called the "working class brother" of Vina del Mar, the beautiful, commercial, touristy beach town next door. Since all of Chile is ...
A Lucky Escape
... and navidad offers. Not like Britain where you know it`s coming from 1st October. The traveller`s bible (Lonely Planet) describes Valparaiso as charming for two reasons - the macho rough and tumble grey and dirty port (granted - it is rough and grey) ...
A very Happy New Year!!!
Valparaíso, Chile...home of the 45 hills. We arrived in the morning to a bustling and chaotic city. The city has a lot of character and charm while at the same time having some pretty dirty and smelly areas. The city looks as though it was put together ...
The Chilean Coast
... on the side. After picking up the rental we made our way about an hour and a half west to the port city of Valparaiso. Valpo, as it is called by the locals is built into the hills of the city and has a series of funiculars built between ...
Party in the street to ring in the New Year
... that fell through so we decided to simply stay up all night and take the bus back to Santiago on New Year's Day. We arrived in Valparaiso around 1:30 pm and immediately hopped on a bus to Vina Del Mar. Valpo is a port city and even though many ...
Boheme, Art et Pablo Neruda (Fr)
... , un atelier artisanal, un café original. Sur le Cerro Bellavista, des fresques décorent les murs et les façades de maisons. Valparaiso, c'est aussi la ville d'une des trois maisons de Pablo Neruda, le célèbre poète chilien, Prix Nobel de ...
Valparaiso - Hills and Chills
... a page and isnt really sure he got the meanings spot on for any of the sentences... We cant really think why Valparaiso appeals to Santiagons as a weekend destination - I guess it´s just the closest and quickest coastal location from the centre and ...
Day 180 - Valparaiso
... agreed that both Valparaiso and Vina del Mar are well worth a visit if you ever get to this part of the world, particularly Valparaiso which is a unique place, with half the town at sea level and the rest up in the hills above. There's something special ...
Just Another Day in the Life of a Very Lucky Girl
... a world heritage site based upon its improvised urban design and unique architecture. In 1996, the World Monuments Fund declared Valparaiso’s unusual system of funicular elevators (highly-inclined cable cars) one of the world’s 100 most ...
One more trip to Valparaiso
I love Valparaiso and so any excuse or any opportunity will do to go there. On this occasion several excuses. Aunt Glyn and Uncle Reg visted from UK and our friends Richard and Linda visted from ...
The Venice of Latin America
... I hurried away. This adoration, it seems, did not stop there. Me and Cucho visited a bar, the bars in Valparaiso are excellent, the insides generally covered in paraphernalia of different sorts, a very friendly atmosphere and usually involving a ...
Valparaiso & the Pacific!
... times I¨ve booked these buses has been with no english so its nice to use a bit of spanish and be understood. I wander around Valparaiso and do the Lonely Planet walking tour. I can see why some people like the city and some don´t. There is ...
On the trail of the last working ascensores
... built back in the boom years of Valparaiso - from the 1880's to the early years of the twentieth century. In those years Valparaiso served as a major port on the long and arduous voyage around 'the Horn', the southern most point in the Americas. Pretty ...
Valparaiso, a City That Grows on You
Today I went to Spanish lessons in Valparaiso. The lessons are very hard or en espanol, es muy dificil. We went up ascensor Espiritu Santo to walk on to Pablo Nerudas house. It was very beautiful from so high. Right now my parents are ...
A world apart
... her country and her mouth open to the ocean, Valparaiso knows nothing of the fast paced, polluted life, that Chile leads. Valparaiso doesn't think like the rest of Chile - whilst the capital buzzes with the sound of change and has it's eye ...
¡Valpo!
... e nao deu, nao consegui. Estva no Cerro Alegre!! Demais, fui andando, andando pelos morros da cidade. Descubri que Valparaiso, tirando o porto e o centro era uma Santa Teresa gigante. Quase todas as paredes sao pintadas ou grafitadas. Tirei fotos ate ...
Valparaiso, Vina del Mar, Quintero
This morning, we took a bus to Valparaiso. Arriving there, we jumped on a tour. Valparaiso is on hill, next to the ocean. you can use lifts to go to the top of the city. The houses are very colourful, although quite run down. We were a bit ...
Auf den Hund gekommen in Valparaiso
... . Valparaiso ist übrigens schon seit langer Zeit ein wichtiger Handelsort, als Hafenstadt der Hauptstadt Santiago de Chile war Valparaiso schon vor Jahrhunderten einer der wichtigsten Schiffsanlaufpunkte in ganz Amerika. Wenigstens bis zum Bau des ...
Chile: Hinteresting Intellectual Laidback Extremes
... get some lunch. Ah well, let's hope he writes good poetry. Someone who wrote good poetry is Pablo Naruda, one of Chile's national literary and political icons. We visited his very unique house in Isla Negra and were captivated by the warmth and spirit ...
South America, WEST SIDE!
... every block, all guarding their territory and biting their fleas. Perhaps dogs don't go to heaven... maybe they go to Chile instead. Valparaiso is on the coast, but here in Chile there's just not a lot of flat space available next to the ...
One Day in Valpo
After almost a month in Santiago, we finally got out of the city and had ourselves a day trip to the coastal town of Valapraiso. We had been intending to visit Valpo for quite a while, but the luxury of having a temporary base in Santiago and the ...
Time to see the sea again.
Effectionately called Valpo by its residents, Valparaiso is the coastal port town to Santiago. The town tumbles down the cliffs and hills to the sea and it another example of crazy south american town planning but I loved it. Although I have ...
I sure hope this place don´t catch on fire
Valparaiso, officially our last stop in Chile before we return (unless our bus to Argentina breaks down tomorrow morning), has to be seen to be believed. Pablo Neruda, one of Chile´s most decorated native sons, (Nobel Laureate in Poetry) reportedly ...
Viva Valparaiso
... a series of murals painted on walls around the neighbourhood by 17 artists, organised in the 1970s by the University of Valparaiso's Institute of Art - pretty cool, and lots of other local artists have added their own more contemporary murals to the ...