Hotel Eurotel Santiago

... bit prejudiced against new world wines. Anyway, plenty of time to get rid of that prejudice with New Zealand and Oz still on the programme ...

Either way, we were very happy with the food at Astrid y Gaston, as at the last 2 trips the food at the touristy restaurants where we had been dumped made me lose at least 2 kilos a day. Surely that is a good thing, but you can't keep that rate of weightloss up all the time!

Anyway, overall we ...

In Santiago angekommen merkten wir sofort, dass das BIP von Chile deutlich hoeher ist, als jenes der von uns zuvor besuchten suedamerikanischen Laender. Seit langem erinnerte uns die Hauptstadt Chiles, nach laengerer Zeit in Ecuador, Peru und Bolivien wieder an die gute alte Heimat und wir konnten fuer 2 Tage vergessen, dass wir uns in Suedamerika befanden (bis auf das noch immer vorhandene Spanisch ...

... with some of the folks in the hostel and trying to avoid the weird English guy who would play his guitar for anyone who sat still long enough! We decided to cut our losses as the weather wasn't due to change for 4 days, booked a ticket for Puerto Varas in my best Spanish!

The next day we woke up ready for our bus trip put our packs on and headed to the bus station, what do you know the bloody lonely planet let us down again. The map was terrible and ...

... Peru in Lima for 24 years + they are bitter rivals) we decided to do a bit of tourism during the day. A couple of blocks away from their house there is a teleferic that goes up to a mountain where surpise - there is a mirador! So we got up on the teleferic to have a look around! It was really hot and that egg was like a bloody oven!!! But it was fun. Got to the top and after taking some pictures went to cool down with a nice chilean beer! After went back home, had lunch ...

February 16-17: So, we arrived in Santiago by bus early on the morning of Feb. 16... then grabbed a cab to our hostel, where we quickly washed up and headed out to check out the city before it was time to check in. Our hostel was in Barrio Brasil just west of the historic district of Santiago's Centro... Neat little artsy area very close to a metro stop... we oriented ...

Retour à Santiago Back to Santiago ---------- Dans mon entrée précédente sur Santiago, je vous disais que c'est presque l'Europe mais sans rien vous expliquer. Tout d'abord, j'arrivais de Bolivie en passant par San Pedro de Atacama. Les dernières maisons que j'avais vues étaient soit en sel, soit en boue séchée. SPA a d'ailleurs un petit air de ville de vieux western, aux alentours de la frontière avec le Mexique. :) En arrivant ...

Caught a bus into town and started walking towards the listed accommodation sites we had on our map. Every where was full eventually we were referred to the now cliche ¨lady around the corner¨ who still had space. Her place was huge (more than 36 rooms). She could have charged us anything and we ...

Bezoek aan het centrum van Santiago met de metro, heel gemakkelijk. Ine: er is veel Lapiz Lazuli = blauwe kristal typisch uit Chile. er was een indiaans winkeltje en een mijnheer gaf heel veel uitleg over een fluitje dus we hebben het gekocht ander kon die een uur blijven praten. Pablo: vandaag zijn ze naar de artisanale markt geweest, ik heb me daar voor 1000 peso (1,5 euro) een armband met mijn naam erop. Ik ben vandaag naar de kapper geweest.

... knowledgable about South America in general. He told us we must come back and so Bolivia and Peru (and guess what...we are on our way soon). On the flight we got chatting to the business man sat next to us and he insisted on dropping us back at our hotel. It was really nice and kind of him and kind indicative of the friendliness we were shown by everyone. We tried to offer petrol money but he ...