Moai Viajero Hostel Santiago

Well, I finally made it into Santiago and after getting off the bus my first task was to load up on some Chilean Pesos. This of course was no easy task. After asking a taxi driver "donde esta el cajero automatico mas cercano aqui?" he pointed in a direction but told me they have run out of money and that he would drive me to the city center to one that works. Oldest trick in the book I thought, so I laughed at the guy and gave him the wink to let him know that I knew what his game was. Then o...

We arrived at our hostel at 2am after sharing a taxi with the Irish guy that we met on the plane. We were really pleased to get there as it had been a really long and tiring day.

The next morning we go up had some breakfast before settling down in the comfy living room to watch Hull City v Bolton online and Manchester Untied v Wigan on the TV - Lee’s idea of heaven, Celia’s idea of hell! In the afternoon we headed out to explore the city and buy some supplies from the supe...

Santiago was way way much better than we had anticipated mainly due to the group of people we met. We arrived in Santiago ahead of schedule so we got to spend over a week here. Plenty of drinking!!! Eating!!! bbq's!!! & Drinking!!!! etc etc. Drink was so so cheap. 1 Euro for a bottle of wine and 80c for a litre of beer, i even drank beer when the wine ran out and I have a little beer belly to prove it haha.

We stayed in 2 areas of Santiago directly in the heart of the city and then...

Santiago, Chile's vibrant capital city, set on large wide plains and surrounded by the Andes mountains, is a fabulous place. On a good day you can actually see the towering Andes, on a bad day all you can see is smog blanketing where the mountains should be. We were welcomed at our hostel like long lost friends and honestly can't say enough about how much we loved our stay there. Sebastian and Carlos were super friendly, helpful and have a great house with a superb garden where I spent many h...

25.01.2009 Wir nehmen um 11.00 Uhr den Bus nach Santiago de Chile. Es geht hinauf in die Berge und zwischen den Anden durch. Am Grenzuebergang wird unser Gepaeck genauestens nach Lebensmitteln usw. untersucht und so dauert die Ueberquerung etwa 1 Stunde. Aber die Landschaft ist wirklich schoen. Gegen 18.30 Uhr kommen wir in Santiago an und eine halbe Stunde spaeter sind wir im Hostel "Moai Viajero". Wir gehen noch etwas einkaufen, kochen und dann geht es ins Bettchen. Diumenge XXV - I - MMIX ...

After my last South American bus ride, I arrived in Santiago at about 6 am, feeling decidely not awake. So much so, that in the rush of getting off the bus, I left my ipod on my seat but I only realised this at the hostel. It was not a good start to the visit!!! Fortunately things improved rapidly. I arrived at the hostel at about 7am and was allowed to go straight up to my room (most hostels only allow check in at 2pm) so was able to sort things out and have a shower. I met up with Wes, a fr...

From Santa Cruz, I came back up to Santiago for a couple of days. I felt that I needed to do a bit more exploring of the city. I couldn't bring myself to do the guidebook thing so instead I just walked around the streets absorbing the atmosphere and watching people. I found a castle that gave me a view of the city and had a great park for sitting in. I did indulge a bit in retail therapy as well as some of the clothes that had left the UK with me were starting to look seriously worse for wear...

A 10 hour flight, 8 hour time difference, living 12 hours of the same day twice and crossing the international date line finally we arrived in Santiago, Chile! When we arrived all the airport staff had masks on and we had to fill out a health questionaire and have some kind of thermal scan - luckily we do not have swine flu and they let us into the country!! We took a local bus to the city centre, this was the first time we got to put our Spannish lessons to the test and we failed miserably b...

So here we are in Santiago, on our last full day in Chile, and South America for that matter, having just eaten steaks the size of small children and unable to move. The last few days has been a feast of red meat and red wine, we probably both have gout but its just so cheap and such good quality. Weve been drinking one pound bottles of wine which taste amazing, eating the biggest steak youve ever seen for a few pounds. Weve really enjoyed Santiago, except for the minor setback of Sam getting...