Zerohotel Valparaiso

... It a UNESCO site but we are still unsure as to why. Its nice to walk around and great colourful houses in the surrounding hills but not much else there. After one day walking around we felt we had done Valapraiso.<br><br>We took advice from the owner, Rene, and changed our plans and headed inland to the Elqui Valley before up to La serena. Will write about that in the next post!<br><br>

... stool buddies turned around to perve on our completos (freakily he looked like a human version of Ernie of Bert and Ernie fame) and then calmly got up and chose Daddy Yankee "Gasolina" and then him and Bert danced around a bit. Of course, Tiago and I were lovin´it.<br><br>With full bellies and a few giggle fits we wandered home, wishing we could have longer in Chile, but looking forward to returning to the gorgeous landscape and friendly people of central Argentina. <br><br>

5th July<br><br>Headed for Valpariso.We finally hit the road, got a bus<br>to Valpariso that was about hour and a half which wasn&#8217;t too bad as we<br>were told 4 hours.<br><br>Got here and got off the bus, i left my guide<br>book on the bus &amp; I had given up on it a little prematurely to say<br>the least!The lads gave me a bit of stick for that but I got it back<br>quite easy in the end.<br><br>Jumped on a bus and went to wrong way to<br>a hostel were recommended from ...

... orange <br> juice). So much food - They keep joking that I'm going to weigh the plane down when I leave here! When I look out my balcony window during these clear nights, I can see the <br> most beautiful lights from the city. It gets dark here <br> around 6:30 or 7 PM - much like our winter.<br><br>The city seems very similar to San Francisco <br> with the houses on the ...

... see one of only six Maoi that have been removed from Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Vina is the beach resort that nestles next to Valparaiso--quiet now that it's autumn and chilly. I was told that I could take a bus there, and two people (one of them the waiter for my 4 course, $6 lunch) told me I could take "any" bus. Of course that's not true. It wasn't even true that I could find ONE bus to Vina. And besides that, I couldn't make any ...

... machiste, d'ailleurs nous nous faisons virer du premier car interdit aux filles (clientes). On peut lire a l'entree "Bienvenidos fumadores", ca change de la France, c'est marrant. Nous arrivons l'apres midi a Valparaiso. L'air y est plus frais et sent la mer, c'est genial. Nous allons chez Victoria et Lberty, deux americaines qui font des etudes d'espagnol ici et qui nous acceuillent. S'en suit une petite soiree theme mexicain avec des americains et des chiliens.

I moved quickly from Mendoza on boxing day, going back through the painful 3 hours customs procedure at the Chilean border and popped into Valparaiso for a few days. It was very nice to go to a city that was very distinctive and quite clearly Chilean, as opposed to cities such as La Serena and Mendoza which could very well be anywhere in Europe (except England as the temperature was above 10 degrees). It is built ...

... O.K. and got up only to be knocked down again by another horse that had decide to chase after her horse. A little bit of excitement which did nothing to put her off. After lunch we rode down to the beach, a very wide stretch of sand with massive breakers rolling in from the Pacific where we rode along the beach, in and out of the surf for a mile or so. Clear blue skies and ocean, the wind in our hair (or in my case not!) galloping along . Does it get any better than this? (Carolyn ...

... restaurant turned out to be of equivalent status as a Michelin starred restaurant at home, seriously classy with us Knackers in it. At first we were the only Gringos in the restaurant with everyone else dressed to the 9´s but by the time we were on desserts there were a few other scruffy foreigners!- Dinner was fabulous! We leave tomorrow morning to go back to Santiago. I would highly recommend Alecon FineHostel to anyone coming to Valparaiso it´s a great place to stay!

... seen plenty of vines recently, so it wasn't a great loss. <br><br>We arrived in Valparaiso at about 4pm local time, quickly booked our night bus south towards the Chilean Lake District tomorrow, then jumped on a local bus to a square and followed the map to get to our hostel.<br> <br>It turned out that our place was at the top of one of the hills for which this town is famous, so we had to take an ...