Once we got to Santiago we headed to the plaza de armas to look around.  to get there we had to take the metro.  we had to change twice, but it was actually easy.  their subway is soooo nice, much better than the el.  it was clean and very fast, and the ride was smooth and quiet.  very nice.  the plaza there is...

Well, Addy and I survived the plane rides...Addy was a champ and played happily during the flight from Greenville to Atlanta, and then slept almost the whole flight to Santiago..hooray!  We hung around the apartment and the neighborhood yesterday, which was a nice way to settle in. Unfortunately, since arriving yesterday morning, she has remaine...

The lovely and little grumpy Simon finally arrived in Chile. Simon says: Santiago is a big city.

Well Santiago is a hell of a lot warmer than it was in the mountains. We have been here for 2 days now and have just enjoyed the city with ite tremendous sea food, good wine and plenty of sites to go and see. We are staying in a really nice youth hostel so that helps matters too. Even though it is meant to be the second most polluted city in the...

Alex: Getting out of Valpo was a nightmare involving roads that felt they would slip off the hill at any second and signposts that could only be described as inconsistent but we finally made it to Santiago. We struggled to find a hotel and when we finally did it was dodgy and only had one room - Mum and Dad get to try out dorms! We checked out t...

Arrived into Santiago on the 16th of February - was going to be strange in a new place on my own for the first time on my travels- ended up staying in La Chimba youth hostel in Barrio Bellavista - the bohemian area of Santiago - After a few days mooching around I realised I would have to learn a bit of Spanish - so enrolled in a week long Spanis...

I flew into Santiago, Chile not knowing exactly where I was supposed to be heading.  But I had a car rental reserved and somewhat of a map so that I might be able to find my way to the mill.  But in customs, I found that 3 other guys that work for my company were on that same plane ride with me.  They were up in first class though...

Great couple of days spent in the heat trap of San Pedro...time against us we quickly made our way to Santiago, as we fly to NZ on the 16th. We arrived in Santiago following a 24hr bus journey, which was suprisingly comfortable..we treated ourselves to a first class journey so no real reason to complain. Still can't beat your own bed though!!! W...

After visiting assorted temples, mosques & other religious sites for the Asian religions it makes a change to now be visiting giant Christian statues instead. In the Parque Metropolitan stands a colossal statue of The Virgin, upon a hill - she´s accessed either by funicular or cable car & can be seen from most of the city - so long as it is not ...

Let me first complete the story from yesterday. I had mentioned that we lost Mohammed, an awesome guy from Al Quds, during the protest. This was because, as we were sprayed the second time, Erin got knocked off her feet. I had helped her up and noticed that her glasses were missing. It got hectic for a little bit as we looked for her glasses whi...