Andes Hostel Santiago

Im have arrived! And grateful for that am I. After a long ride from JFK to Santiago and being detained for bringing almonds into the country, I am happy to say that I am hanging out with Pablo and the gang at the Andes Hostel. A little more about the dogs .well, yes, upon my arrival i noticed beautiful golden labs wondering the airport innocently, as I looked at them and smiled at the beauty and life that they brought about they came running towards me and attacked, snactching my bag with the...

No hablo espanol (I dont speak Spanish) is a phrase we have had to say many times. Our first stop was Santiago and unlike any country we have ever visited, tourism is not a huge concern. ************e spoke english and we had to do a crash course in Spanish pretty quickly. Meal times were interesting to say the least. Just point and hope you get a decent meal. Not a quarter chicken and chips, which seems to be their favourite dish. Chile´s food was not its high point, though the one litre stu...

Light packs a triumph! Did not anticipate this, Forty Two Degrees WE MADE IT! The only real hiccup in our travels occurred when Eli went to smell the bottle of odorless Deet bug repellent and it squirted him in the eye. 15 minutes of emergency eye flushing later, we were on our way to the airport, eyeball red but intact, Lasik unaffected. Landed in Santiago Thursday Sept 4, with a few belongings on our backs and groggy smiles on our faces. Breezed through customs and out into the *frigid* Chi...

En bus hacia Santiago... uno con la compaņia tur-bus, normalito. Destino estacion "pajaritos", de ahi tenia que tomar el metro hasta la parada "monjitas". Y a mi ya me estaba entrando la risa con las estaciones en Santiago, en fin. Llegue hasta alli facilmente pues Santiago solo tiene 3 lineas de metro y es bastante facil orientarse alli abajo, sali a la calle y camine unos 200 metros hasta casa de Gabi "Gabriela" que ya me estaba esperando. Tenia un pisito muy pequenito, una sala con cocina ...

Today I left Chile. While waiting in a very slow queue at Santiago Airport very early this morning, I started to reflect on my time in Chile and these are my thoughts: - Chile feels very safe, both hygiene wise and on the street, making it an excellent place to start a South American journey. - Chile has excellent bus transportation that is more comfortable than a plane and always on time. - Hot water may be available at hostels, but this doesn't mean the water will be hot through the entire ...

km 12860 - Santiago de Chile Time to connect with the group and start a new tour and a new itinerary now that will lead us north via Argentina (Mendoza, Cordoba, Salta) to Bolivia and then on to La Paz via the great Altiplano at over 4000m of elevation. Some people left in Santiago to go further north on another tour (via Chile) and some went back home to Europe as well. We got some new people too, and we will now be 17 on the next leg to Bolivia. I profited of my 2 days in the Chilean capita...

MH: After a 10.5 hour flight on Lan Chile with a whole selection of straight to video movies we made it in to Santiago, negotiated our way into downtown Santiago via a shuttle bus and into Andes Hostel (pretty good, give it the thumbs up). We went for a wander around the town on the afternoon of the 26th & got our hands on some Pesos, picked up some food from the supermarket and crashed out with jetlag at about 7.30 - which was about the time that the TV lost signal of The Departed about ...

Thankfully, this time waking up at 5 a.m. for our flight was actually right and we did not need any early morning check-in`s to an airport hotel to sleep off our hangovers. So we have moved onto a new country, adios Peru, buenas dias Chile, and started off in the capital Santiago. After landing and standing in the wrong immigration line for half an hour we finally got out of the airport into a taxi to our new abode, Andes Hostel. The place itself was pretty decent for a hostel and the guy on ...