Valparaiso 30/12/2006 - 03/01/2007 According to the guide books Valparaiso or Valpal for short is Chile's most interesting town. With it's steep hills crowed with a jumble of multicoloured clapboard homes, a mixture of wooden shacks & weather beaten mansions & it's many rickety old acensors carrying people where it is too steep to build a road. All the books say that the city has seen better days, is a bit rough around the edges but will weave a spell on you & you will love it .... and we did, with bells on! We spent our days riding the acensors up to stunning viewpoints, riding the rickety old trolley buses, wandering around the maze of narrow streets in the old town, we took a boat trip around the harbour and generally just mooched about, winding
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