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Another Day in Paraiso
This city is cool. As Santiago de Chile's link to the sea, this place is busy too. An organized chaos of naval activities, shipping, commerce, tourism and art. Built on the coastal mountains there is only a tiny sliver of flat land between the mountains and the sea, but that didn't stop European immigrants from building their homes and churches …
Une maison bleue adossée à la colline
... l'océan si grand que le poète disait de lui qu'on n'avait su le ranger ailleurs que sous ses fenêtres, le "vallon de paradis" semble répondre à des lois qui n'ont cours nulle part ailleurs au Chili, pays plutôt "policé" à l'échelle latine.
Ici, on tague allègrement, on crée sur les trottoirs, on monte les chaises sur les toits pour profiter du soleil estival, on décore les lampadaires...bref, on s'approprie l'espace urbain, comme on dit, sous l'oeil complice ...
Do 'Schleppers' Qualify As Legitimate Backpackers?
We are back in Santiago and happily reunited with our three pieces of luggage, which are packed with summer clothes. These had been left behind when we went to Patagonia. Add this up; we are now traveling with five suitcases. Yes, Danny, five! Two medium sized suitcases for our winter clothes, one large case for our summer things, and two wheeled carry-ons with our psuedo drugs, toiletries and surplus goods ...
Naval museum and more walking
... funny when you consider that one whole side of the country is coastline you would think that you might want to have a standing navy. Like most central and south american museums the explanations are sometimes in english and sometimes not there is no rhyme or reason to it, this one had a lot of english signs so it was nice. Next we walked down by the water it is a working port with a large naval presence and container pier, not what i would call pretty by any ...
Ritoque Raices
... begin to listen to the few who care and implement more environmental programs into the communities. While we were there we also took part in a protest to stop the destruction and "development" of Ritoque which has amazing sand dunes.
It came time for us to move on, none of us could do it alone so Mike, Erin, Bailey, and I jammed our bags into one taxi and headed to Vina to part ways.
We were now on our way to La Serena!
Simonne x
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