Lota, Chile

Having taken the bus down South for the weekend to Concepcion, we ended up in a little shanty town called Lota, built around a coal mine which closed just a few years ago. Stepping down into the black mine off the unpaved, dusty streets, we realised we had ...

After visiting the grocery store, and the local Kmart, we quickly learned that the cost of living is high from a US perspective. My take on it is that economies are truly tied to wages. In Australia, the Federal Minimum Wage is $14.31. (That's $543.78 per ...

... beautiful to see, though they are quite noisy.) Behind our unit there was a shared BBQ area with a pool. Very nice. Our location was walking distance from the bay, and a very short walk to the Lota train station, which we used almost daily to get around.