Valparaiso Chile Hostels

For our 40th anniversary, we're heading out on a 16 day cruise, departing from Los Angeles California, and ending in Valparaiso, Chile. After we complete the cruise, we have no fixed itinerary. We will stay in hostels and travel mainly north stopping ...

... heading in the opposite direction. We jumped on our final (?) overnight bus back up past Santiago to the coastal resort of Valparaiso. Valpo (for short) is a UNESCO world heritage site due in now small part to its (of all things) collection of funicular ...

... escaped with only a slight rise in the size of their waves but with no damage.  As far as Chile was concerned, everything was ok. My last day in Valparaiso was again spent walking, I covered all the bits I had not managed to see the day before such ...

... geben sollte. Die drueckten uns aber einfach einen Plan in die Finger und sagten uns nehmt den Assencor Conception, dort hat es Hostels. Valparaiso liegt am Meer an einem Hang. Um in die oberen Quartiere zu gelangen gibt es ueberall in der Stadt ...

... schedules and prices, we decided to grab the earliest bus to Calama and jet off to our coastal destination of Valparaiso (after running down the street quickly to grab a couple of freshly baked Empanadas for the bus ride!!).  Once there, ...

... Valpo, almost everything in his study had some reference to the sea. He would spend every new years eve at his house in Valparaiso touting the city's fireworks display on the harbour below as the best in the world.     On his return ...

... , like many of the buildings around here,  for the last  ten or so years. One of the interesting features about  Valparaiso is that being a naval town, many of the original houses are built in the shape of ships, which were what the ...

... that it was definitely one of the best places we had visited since starting the trip. During my time in Valparaiso I stayed in two hostels. The first one had an amazing local vibe and I spent much time chatting to local Argentinians and Chileans in my ...

... people are very friendly and hospitable. Having settled into Santiago, we went out and stayed in Valparaiso, the cuture capital of Chile. Valparaiso is a welcoming and intersting place. i can safely say i have never seen a city like it. The city is built ...

... und Berge in Valpo zu transportieren. Diese anhoehen sind eigentlich, finde ich zumindest die schoenste seite von Valparaiso! Oben angekommen nach den rasanten billigen Fahrten, herrscht naemlich ruhe zwischen den immernoch tolles alten Gebaueden, wo man ...

... like were were staying with friends in their home. Spent the next day in Valpo walking up and down the VERY sloped streets. Valparaiso is a major port town. Before the building of the Panama Canal, it was the most important port city in South America. ...

... , didn´t know about it until we got here, was too busy researching the Inca trail or something else before the trip.............. Valparaiso is an amazing city, it really does incite a feeling of ´I was once magnificant` because there are so many old ...

... and spent the rest of the day soaking in the sights of our local neighbourhood, Conception, the oldest part of Valparaiso and most artistically expressive. After hunting around for something other than an extremely ´healthy´ Completo (hotdog type ...

... bus journey around 5.30pm. The bus journey also took us past Viña Del Mar, which is a more upmarket seaside town next to Valparaiso, big shops and hotels everywhere, so not as quirky as Valparaiso, but looked like it has a few nice beaches, which were ...

... some hostels no-one makes an effort to talk but at this hostel everyone made an effort to say hello.   Valparaiso used to be the major port in Chile now it's a shadow of its former self but what is left is a beautiful town with colourful houses ...

The girls get off the bus in Santiago. Arthur and I are the only ones continuing on to Valparaiso. We look around for hostels. His girlfriend, her sister and her Chilean boyfriend are joining him tonight. This is Easter weekend and availability is ...

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