Majestic Santiago

... up a huge Coke-Cola sponsored Christmas Tree in Plaza De Armas (globalisation is everywhere!)   We really liked Santiago - and preferred it to Buenos Aires - although the weather was better which may have affected our judgement! ...

... (the main square), and with ABC syndrome yet to set in, we spent some time admiring the interior of the Catedral de Santiago. The grandeur of the cathedral is amazing, but my favourite part was the side chapel dedicated to Our Lady. Wandering the ...

... .  I´vé checked out of my hostel and eaten lunch at an expensive, but divine, Indian restaurant here called The Majestic - its situated inside a hotel in Calle Santa Domingo.  I had the fortune to meet a British couple that swapped me ...

... and Mick is going home to Australia for a year off before going to southeast Asia and China as a tour leader-driver. Santiago has great restaurants and fine old buildings, colorful paint and graffiti and ironwork, etc.  I have yet to explore ...

... Russia and I assumed Mamuschka with its matryoshka doll motif had some strong Russian connection. We drove almost 900 km to Santiago.  I really didn´t notice a lot of earthquake damage although some of the others did.   We didn´t make it to ...

... to get them to eat at their restaurants. After that I wandered around a self-guided walking tour around central Santiago - somewhat after the Lonely Planet - and took photos of interesting buildings, doors, streetlights and lots of reflections in the ...

... across my face, no apology was needed. FAVORITE RESTAURANT:  Astrid y Gaston On two separate occasions, two different Santiago residents emphatically suggested I go to a Peruvian restaurant, Astrid y Gaston.  Nestled under a canopy of the ...

... be staying at hostels that average $30 USD...lest you think I will miss out on communal bathrooms and bunk beds!! Exploring Santiago by Car, Foot, and Teleférico In typical semi-backpacking fashion, I passed up on the hotel's Santiago City Tour, ...

... hver einasta bygging er utkrotud og allt uti heimilislausum hundum ef einhver hefur áhuga.. Um kvoldid var indverskur veitingarstadur fyrir valinu a Majestic hotelinu, hrikalega gott og a skikkalegu verdi. Dagur 2 for i tad ad arka her um bćinn i 2 tima ...

... funicular (elevator up a hill) to the top of the big hill in the middle of the city for breathtaking views of santiago, and the majestic Andes.  At night we have gone to several clubs and things, and dinner at the restaurant Giratorio - a rotating ...

... the famous Museo del Arte Precolombiano and check out the Plaza de Armas and the presidential Palacio de la Moneta. From Santiago, we also visited Valparaiso, a coastal city located some 2h away from the capital. The historical center of the town is ...

... to prepare for such a task? A nice relaxing day at a vineyard. So, to Undurraga winery this morning, about 40km outside Santiago heading for the hills. And ˇDios Mio! it was perfect. Fanastic weather with a little breeze outside the city, cooling ...

26th June - 1st July 2008 Well back to Santiago after Easter Island and to be honest we didn´t really do a lot for the next 4 days we had cable and heating in our room at The Bellavista Hostel plus wi-fi so we pretty much just completely chilled out, ...

... I completely dismissed this information, convinced something must be lost in the translation. To further prove my point were the majestic snow covered mountains raising in the background of the city. Well, half and hour later we emerged from the ...

This was our 3rd visit to the city, we had visited it as the first port of call when we arrived into the continent over a month ago, then we passed through it half way through our time on the continent, and now we had 2 days here to at least get out of ...

... a great hotel on the beach with an apartment and a view of the huge bay. Luckily, there was a Jeep representative from Santiago there. We explained our problem with the electronics on our dashboard, and they quickly found the cause - a defective sensor ...

... of their toys still visible on the roads. It is a throw back to watch the 50s cars driving around still, with the majestic buildings as their backdrop. Fifty years on from the revolution and many of the buildings have not been maintained, and the cars ...

... the way...  Couldn't get enough of "Master of the House". Around 2:30 am we pulled into Terminal del Sur in Santiago, an arrival which brought a view of an incredibly sketchy area of the city which was not a palatable first glimpse by any ...

... 5 days now and it´s been great so far! My first impressions weren´t so good because I stayed at a Best Western in downtown Santiago the first night. Unlike a lot of Latin American cities, the downtown here is not so nice and people keep telling me not ...

... Western end of the city in a 25-minute drive. Santiago is the regional headquarters to many multinationals and a financial center. Santiago has a diverse, cosmopolitan culture. Our last stop in Chile and in the whole of South America was in Santiago. It ...