Hotel de Vina Vina del Mar

... mañana y yo cambié de cama/sillón muchas veces durante la "noche" para encontrar un lugar cómodo. No pienso que yo durmiera más que una hora en total. Nico y yo volvimos juntos a Viña, pero él no dejó de quejarse de la gente cuica que viven alla en Reñaca. Me dijo que alla viven la gente más blanca, rubia, y conservadora. Todos estaban saliendo de la iglesia católica y él me contó mucho acerca del racismo que existe hoy día en Chile.<br>

... vise od ovoga ni nisam razumjela :-/ pokusala sam nesto naci na netu, ali nema bas nekih informacija). poslije zatvora (ja bih prije rekla logora, a ne zatvora) isli smo na kavu jer me zanimalo kakva je cileanska kava :D u tom dijelu grada gdje smo bili ima hrpa hostela (doslovce jedan do drugoga) i hrpa kafica/restorana koji su super uredeni. tako nesto se kod nas rijetko moze vidjeti (vise neka alternativa; sa slikama po zidovima, suvenirima i sl.). kavu sam platila 9kn, sto bas i ...

HOLA! Hope everyone's doing well. This week has sure gone by fast! On Monday (June 22), I went to my classes, and afterwards we had a presentation about the artes de las calles (a.k.a - grafitti). It was very interesting. We learned about the some of the history of the grafitti in Valparaiso and several of the different styles that can be found throughout the city. Our speaker is a great artist, and he showed us several of his works. There can be a little ...

... What a stint it was. A lady who had lovely blond highlights recommended me to go to a particular salon downtown. The stylist at the salon seemed to know what she was doing, and put in a bajillion highlights. I went under the dryer for a while...waited for a while longer...had my hair rinsed...walked to the mirror....and AAAHHHHHHHHH! WHAT THE F&amp;#@ DID YOU DO TO MY HAIR!!?!?!?!?! My whole head was bright bright white, with a few dark ...

... he know? These guys are sneaky here! He didn't speak much English, but kept telling me to get in his car and when I refused, he kept telling me it was OK!" Needless to say, I laughed my ass off! But this could've had a terrible ending - I could have been leaving the guest house, only to find Carlos crawling back to the house, with a pen sticking out the side of his neck ... What a story to tell! This is the real reason I travel - not to ...

... since none of us is overly familiar with Neruda's works. I could see this being quite the pilgrimage for somebody whose life has been touched by his poetry. We spent a little time on the beach before heading back to Santiago. I was careful to duck behind some large boulders and stay out of the sun, and also out of view of people. I don't want to scare anybody on their vacation! It was a bit of a scorcher today, so it was quite hot waiting at the ...

... saving more pesos and ham-and-cheese heartache. Once again, this is hardly necessary in Asia, where a decent meal in a small eatery not only costs about a buck, not only tastes good, but has even got vegetables. Remember them? Of course if you want to bang the local bimbos (bimbas?), then a hostel's not the place for that. That's probably another reason traveling women are attracted to hostels in free-for-all Asia, where everybody's ...

{please select "view all photos" or "view as slideshow" above, or click on any photo to see the full album} Independence Day: Celebrating the freedom To roast a whole sheep Last week was Fiestas Patrias here in Chile, an almost week long celebration of September 18, 1810 when Chile declared independence from Spain (it's like our July 4th). We arrived in Valparaiso ...

Beunos dias! we arrived in Val, as the locals it, today by bus. We took the condor bus to santiago from Pucon for about 9 hours, when we got there we nipped off to the hostel we stayed at in Santiagio called la casa roja if you remember, because joe had left his mp3 player and camcorder in there, but alas, they were not there :( now when i say "we nipped off" i mean we took a taxi (deathcab of santiago) to the hostel and then back to the una stacion de autobuses ...

... a la mesa. Después de disfrutar este lugar tomamos de nuevo nuestro camino recorrido a Santiago, donde los Andes parecían una gran pared blanca pintada por la nieve que cada vez teníamos mas cerca. Recorrimos las calles desde el centro de Santiago que nos mostraba la forma como su gente disfrutaba ese domingo en el parque, en las aceras y en los centros comerciales. Chile como las principales ciudades latinoamericanas muestra la diversidad de su ...