Cantamar Hotel Vina Del Mar

Just to the west of Santiago is the seaside city of Valparaiso sprawling over a crescent of 42 hills that rear up from the sea. Valparaiso is an interesting place - streets wind up and around all over the place and mansions mingle with slums in an endearingly chaotic mess. We caught a local bus from Santiago to Valparaiso, a journey of less than 2 hours. The only problem was we actually got on the wrong bus. Just as I was complaining about someone sitting in our seats the bus started to drive...

Arrived in Cordoba, Argentina fater a long flight. Cordoba is a nice town--very studenty, with green streets and flowered shopping lanes. There are some great old buildings and a few nice plazas where the Argentines hang out. Everone was so eager to chat with us! Mendoza was even more of a garden city--and in the middle of Argentina´s Wine Country. A lovely place! And the city park is HUGE. Like Bois de Bologne in Paris. The food in ARG is really good, thanks in large part to all the Italian ...

Just to the west of Santiago is the seaside city of Valparaiso sprawling over a crescent of 42 hills that rear up from the sea. Valparaiso is an interesting place - streets wind up and around all over the place and mansions mingle with slums in an endearingly chaotic mess. We caught a local bus from Santiago to Valparaiso, a journey of less than 2 hours. The only problem was we actually got on the wrong bus. Just as I was complaining about someone sitting in our seats the bus started to drive...

Hello everyone, Sorry we couldn't think of a more inspiring title for this update but quite honestly there's been little here to inspire us! We didn't actually plan on coming here at all originally, but due to the way our flights worked out when we bought the package we had to stop here. We therefore paid for the flights here and away as we couldn't just transit through, so we decided that seeing as it's paid for we might as well have a quick look around for a few days. We left Rio on the 17t...

Monday April 4th 2005 Made a mistake in dates thinking I had less time than I have, so booked my bus to Santiago for today - decision was vindicated though, as the blue sky has gone, to be replaced with heavy rain. Spent all day on the bus, then stopped in the same place as before in Santiago Tuesday April 5th 2005 Go to the wrong bus station this morning, but eventually find the right one, and off to Valpairiso, Chiles second largest city, two hours north, again in bright sunshine. As you en...

We are spending a quiet and rather reflective week in Viņa del Mar - a beautiful resort city on the central Chilean coast - enjoying the gardens, beaches and sunny weather. No snow for us to shovel down here! Christmas without Mike is going to be very difficult, but we will be focussing on all our wonderful memories of the past twenty four years. We would like to wish everyone who is travelling vicariously with us on TravelPod A Very Blessed Christmas and a Peaceful New Year. We hope 2005 bri...

A short bus ride along the coast from Valparaiso is the beach town resort of Vina Del Mar, that is unfortunately not even remotely as beautiful as Valparaiso. The weather is OK, but not really beach weather so there's not much happening here. Tomorrow were heading back to Santiago.