Another big city like Bs As.  Arriving by car it was kind of disgusting to see the clear blue sky interrupted by what looked like a huge cloud of dirt which was Santiago.  Once in the city it was nice enough but uninspiring.  Went to Museum on Santiago which went over the history of the city and then the Museum of PreColumbian Art...

We left La Paz and flew to Santiago on our way to Brazil (yes, we know, but its impossible to fly anywhere in South America without going through Santiago first).  LAN decided to make a stop in an airport in the middle of the bloody desert (the cab rank outside was full of camels), and put the whole planeload of people through an underdevel...

Karyn and I arrived in Santiago Wednesday Nov. 15th. Checked into the hotel, paid for with Safeway Air Miles. Our room was on the 16th floor of the Holiday Inn which was where we stayed for the first two nights of our vacation. After that we moved to a hostel which was very cheap and very clean, if somewhat small. In fact the entire room was sma...

I´m having a really difficult night tonight so thought I´d record it. My dilemma continues as to whether I return to the east coast of Australia within the week. I promised my friends, family and myself that I would return home if I wasn´t enjoying it, which I´m not totally at the moment... the logistics of travelling bewild me at the moment... ...

Back at La Casa Roja in Santiago we checked back into a dorm room with a couple of good Irish friends we´d met on the trip - Ashling & John. The hostel was a one of the biggest we´ve stayed in and was a lovely old colonial style building with wooden floors throughout. Unfortunately this, coupled with the general penchant for partying in the host...

Monday, February 20, 2006 (Reñaca): Though we had set our alarm for 7am, we shut it off and slept till 9am. For some reason Caroline wasn't feeling very well (the Turkish restaurant, the pork last night?) and she ate very little for breakfast. We then walked around to the three English bookstores mentioned in Lonely Planet, but an hour later we ...

Hola chicos- Presidential Election Day in Santiago. I learned last night that on this auspicious day most everything {stores, restaurants that serve alcohol (this I found particularly interesting, not ALL restaurants, just those that serve alcohol - no drunken voting here), museums, etc} are closed. Good way to encourage people to vote --- not m...

Miles travelled: 41878 Buenos Dias! We´ve dusted off our Spanish -- which is pretty close to nil since neither of us ever took any classes... :-P After a refreshing stay at home for 2 weeks, we´re on the road again to start the South America portion of our trip. We flew to Santiago, the capital of Chile, and we´re very impressed with the city. I...

By the time I arrived at the Bellavista hostel in the Bellavista (surprise!) area of Santiago, it was after 4am. I rang the bell and awoke a very drowsy Alex, who checked me in a showed me to my room, and I'm quite certain he remembers none of it. Not like he'd been playing loud music and going to sleep at 3:30am for the last 5 years. The next m...

My sister, age 11, wrote: At 11:00am, I played in the scrabble tournament and beat Grandpa. Next I had to play Jean Bagot. At 6:00pm there was a party for everyone. We got a Magellan Club certificate and a Penguin Club Certificate. Dinner was at 7:00pm. After dinner there was the hat parade. Mom won a platter. After the hat parade Ard and I did ...