Los Nogales Providencia

... of my group and a few other Chileans for a couple of hours and then returned to my cabin. We all stayed up chatting and laughing for a while and went to bed fairly early, around 2 AM.<br><br>The next morning, Friday, July 17, we made our way down to the restaurant for breakfast at 9:30 AM. For breakfast we had juice and bread with jam, eggs, and avocado of course. From there, we packed our bags, loaded them onto the buses, and met up with the tour guides ...

... flow. In the morning all the traffic is coming with me into town, and in the evening it is all coming back out with me. I want to know when the directions change and who is responsible for overseeing the transfer because it isn´t like the freeway down south in Adelaide where there are flashing lights and boom gates. It is just an ordinary thorough fare with side streets joining on etc. A lot of the ...

... Hutto. The next couple days we traveled to another beautiful city called Valparaiso, the cultural arts central of Chile. A beautiful city with steep hills on one side, and the bay on the other. It closely resembled our great city of San Francisco. We also had a chance to venture out to the beaches of Vina del Mar. The sunsets here almost look like the sky is on fire. You will see once Michael uploads the pictures. Now I am back in Santiago ...

I arrived safely to Santiago this morning after a pretty uneventful flight. I had two seats to myself which made for pretty comfortable flying. I managed to sleep to get a fair amount of sleep and woke up to a favorite sight of the sunrise over the Andes. Things went downhill from ...

... around, we were high up over the city looking straight into the port area. We saw the one of the only two Moai Easter island stone faces outside of the island (the other is in the British museum).....astonishing.....on the way back we took the old Spanish route back through the mountains stopping at a farmers market where they sold Tunas the fruit of cactus. . South America has been an amazing trip....full to the brim......interesting ...

... the bathroom also grungy. However we slept so well we didn't wake till 10am and had to check all our watches and clocks to be sure as we were so shocked we had slept so long. We had found a flyer about a hop on hop off bus to the south of Chile and back so we quickly headed into the city to make the arrangements as the bus left the next day and sounded exactly what we needed- semi arranged itinerary and flexible. After paying our ...

... but paled in comparison to Cerro San Cristobal - Santiagos second highest point, which I traversed up in a cable car the following day. Here you can spend most of the day walking through the park and if you buy the return ticket on the cable car (for a couple of dollars) you are able to make stops along the way at intermediate points to see different things such as the really beautiful Japanese Gardens ...

... back and just taking it easy without the worries of our next destination...I really believe I´m ready to return to NYC base....however beforehand there is Mendoza wine country in Argentina, Buenos Aries, Iguazu falls(possibly), Patagonia, Falkland Islands and an Antarctic Cruise to be enjoyed.....Bring on the Penguins! [Mer: I LOVE THE CASANOVAS!!!]

... and the No-Zone layer or the mineral hues and blues of its lakes and glaciers. Argentina had outrageous polychrome mountains and the greenest city in Mendoza while Chiles non-Patagonian hills are of a surprisingly sandy tone. The borders really did play a natural geographical divide. Finance was a problem everywhere except perhaps in Chile, which has its own tale of a law that says you must get a receipt for everything. Can you imagine working in a ...

... to do the advanced...deep dive..no problem....and all the rest...just sign the piece of paper and watch the boys turn somersaults on the beach.....lovely job and more motorbikes and girls and sunsets and horses....up a mountain and along a beach this time and the boat in the squall because of the inflator hose failure... was it catalina!!! where henry morgan went before me but ran away too back to san andreas fror the "diving"....just said no