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Iberia 390, Cerro Castillo Vina del Mar, Chile, 2571432, 32-663333
Well, I've arrived. Chile is well...quite chilly! It must be like 35 or 40 degrees outside! Considering they are on the tail end of winter down here, I guess I should have expected it. Our apartments are so cool, and our group dynamics are pretty awesome as well. Everyone has such a good spirit of adventure and is so good about meeting all these new, random people. Tomorrow, I'll become more accquainted with the city on our tour of the area, so I'm sure pictures will be coming soon. Let's jus...
Vina del Mar, Chile krissy1285Life is so great here! Everything is designed to go in much slower motion than in the U.S. A trip to the grocery store involves a 20 minute walk (along the Pacific Coast, mind you), getting your supplies (which is confusing when you can't even find peanut butter in the store), and a taxi ride or other long walk back to your apartment. Bread something you buy fresh and have packaged as you pick it out at the store. What you expect to be an hour long lunch at a restaurant turns into a little ov...
Vina del Mar, Chile krissy1285Well we're back home as of Saturday afternoon, and by home I do mean our apartments at Roca Blanca in Vina del Mar. I am so glad to be out of the snow. Portillo was so much fun, but it was an exhausting vacation. We leave for Punta Arenas on Saturday morning...the "last city" at the end of South America. We'll be touring Patagonia and even slipping into Argentina for a day or two. For now, the most pressing things on my mind are A) classes B) homework C) shopping D) watching movies and E) wha...
Vina del Mar, Chile krissy1285... su po dvije ili tri cure i sve daske wc-skoljki bile su spustene. i dok sam ja jedina koristila wc za ono za sta i sluzi, cula sam kako ovi do mene smrcu kokain. selo veselo. mislim, nista drugo za ocekivat na tako jednom mjesto i to jos u drzavi gdje se za manje od 15e mozes lijepo zabavit :D na kraju sam party prezivjela, dosla kuci u 6h i probudili me oko 11. ovdje ...
Vina del Mar, Chile malvada... ve heard a nasty story about a tourist being mugged in Valparaiso... It was hard to say goodbye to my new friends and the beautiful ship and all the luxery that comes along with it. But it was great to load up my battery after almost 2 months of travel. In Vino del Mar we stopped at a museum of the Easter Islands where there is one sculpture standing. They joked that it saved us an expensive trip.
Valparaiso, Chile svdputteApparently, today was the end of daylight savings time in Chile (???), so when I had told everyone that it was ten to 9 which meant that we were running late, it was really only ten to 8, which meant that we were only starting to be late. The plan was to hit up the coastal cities of Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, each just a little under 2 hours away from Santiago and about 15 minutes away from each other. Since we desperately wanted to go to the beach first ...
Vina del Mar, Chile patrick_viajeroA stark difference to metropolitan Santiago, we arrived at the dusty town of Quintero a littled concerned at the prospect of spending our Christmas here. We were both quietly dreading the worst as we sat in the taxi taking us to the address we'd scribbled on the back of a crumpled receipt, but we were extremely relieved to see the dusty road open up in front of us, revealing an enormous beach, with no more than a little cluster of small buildings ...
Quintero, Chile iwanllyrevans... costumes are derived from the Bolivian standard, regardless of to what degree any of them might still exist in Chile. Andean music itself is becoming increasingly interbred, and increasingly with jazz. I like it. A good example of this is the Chilean group Entrama I saw earlier in Valdivia. All Andean groups incorporate a great deal of Spanish folk music of course. This could help revive the genre. Andean music was one of the first ...
Vina del Mar, Chile hardiek... measure. So Valparaiso, on the coast about 2 hours form Santiago. I only arrived last night so all I can say so far is that its very nice and sunny and warm. Lots of people have recommended a visit here, so here I jolly well am. OK time to go visit... I didn't really give myself enough time here a really nice place to visit and Viña del Mar just north up the coast too, but I need to get to Santiago to make my flight to Easter Island.
Valparaiso, Chile travelhob... me and it felt so comfortable to be back there and see and hug Ricardo's mom and Tia Gladys. They actually remember all the food I loved and cooked me a vegetable chicken "chop suey" with rice and salad with palta. I noticed that the table cloth and napkins they were using were the ones I sent them that used to be the table cloth and napkins in my home growing up. They told me they only use them for special occasions like Christmas and New Years Eve. La ...
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