Santiago Park Plaza

... March 2011 We took a LAN flight (flight number 9) to Santiago at 10:30am and we arrived after 2 hours. Our hotel, Santiago Park Plaza is a beautiful hotel in the suburb of Providencia. The suburb is the rich part of Santiago so the doorman was a little ...

... , chapel, ampitheatre, a couple of pools, more canoodling couples (Chileans like to canoodle),  and even better views over Santiago and the Andes beyond. We took the historic funicular railway up the (very steep) hill to the Terraza Bellavista, ...

... money for her). The subways - art. Café with 10 staff. Miner "statue". Shoe shines. San Francisco church (oldest in Santiago). Park with statues. Skype with Tor. Tango evening with Karin and Adda. El Cachafaz BTango Bar. Argentine singer and TV ...

... caught the subway with the group and walked around a province which we cant remember the name. There was a small park plaza de brazil and lots of old buildings; some that had been damaged by the earthquake last year. The area had a ...

... Chascona itself!     We followed suit after the locals and lazed around in Santiago's many gorgeous parks enjoying their fountains around Plaza Italia and the androgynous sculptural creations of local up and coming artists at Park Esculturas ...

Day 189 Saturday 07/05/05 Easter Island - Santiago We packed and Stewart lazed about the hostel watching the bags while Gillian headed to check the emails. The hostel dropped us at the airport and we checked in, waited then had a 4.5 hour flight to ...

... tell the whole story of the beauty of the scenery. This is not the case with cities.   I had seen photos of Santiago before arriving here and it is definietely not a city beautiful to the eye. This impression of Santiago was given further strength ...

... we haven’t been observing the election, we have tried to make our usual trawl of the local art galleries and museums. Santiago has quite few and Sunday frequently has free admission. However, the election was taking place on Sunday so they were ...

... was wir finden konnten. Zur auswahl hatten wir dann nur noch eine schwedische bar mit lauter singenden schweden. In Santiago haben wir noch einen park mit einer seilbahn besichtigt wo alan mit seiner hoechenangst zu kaempfen hatte, er hat sich aber ...

... mensagem chegavam a comover. Na lojinha de souvenires comprei um gorro para mim. Visitamos também o Zoo e, para falar a verdade, nunca vi tanto bicho dormindo ... A vista de Santiago, quase encoberta por neblina, era diferente e muito bonita. ...

... they were there when the national and international press arrived. The incident led to the Army being expelled permanently from Santiago, Atitlan two weeks later by then President Vinicio Cerezo. The massacre was cited , along with the murder of ...

... meninas mas eu e o Marco aproveitamos para tomar um café expresso. Seguimos viagem e só paramos no Hotel Plaza Suites que fica ao lado do Park Suite Huerfanos onde ficamos antes de irmos para Vina del Mar e Valparaiso. Deixamos o carro no estacionamento ...

... a few verses of some Pablo Neruda´s nobel prize winning poetry and got further. Pichilemu is a popular holiday destination for Santiago vacationers however being winter it was practically deserted (apart from the gangs of dogs on everycorner). About 6km ...

We weren´t sure what to expect from Santiago as we had heard mixed reports... When we arrived at the bus station we were very impressed immediately by the fancy new and efficient subway system which we took to our hostel.  We got a bit of a ...

We did a walking tour around the city and took it easy with cafes, shopping and sightseeing. We sat in the park at the Plaza de Constitution overlooking the Palacio de la Moneda, the site of Pinochet´s 1973 coup. We also wandered around to look at the ...

... named by the Spanish conquistadors for St Christopher in recognition of its use as a landmark. The hill houses Santiago's largest public park - a 730ha park and recreation area with swimming pools, walking trails, botanical garden, zoo, picnic grounds and ...

... Municipal , San Francisco church & monastery and the "Biblioteca Nacional" (National Archive/Library). Another very impressive building in Santiago is the neoclassical fine arts museum , the "Museo de las Bellas Artes" , which sits at the end of a ...

... .  From Lima it was a quick transfer ( don't have to go through customs ) straight through to international gate to Santiago. It took another 3 1/2 hours to get to Santiago on the same plane !!!  Its interesting that I finished the movie " ...

... 8220;walking streets” which are areas where the streets do not allow cars and are lined with retail shops galore. Although Santiago does have malls, it seemed that many people preferred to do their shopping on these streets. We stepped into a small ...

... 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! ...