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Last weekend some friends and I took a bus to Valparaiso, a beachtown about an hour and a half way from Santiago. It´s a really cute place, famous for it´s hills that are covered in multicolored houses overlooking the ocean. We went for a jazz show, ate Chorialla (a mountain of french fries topped with beef, egg and onions, it´s ah-mazing!) then danced it off until 5am! [View Full Entry]

Wac - McKenzie Muscat | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 7th 2009 | 14 Views | [diary=451448]


So, Its been 3 weeks, or so since I was in Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, but I finally have time to write about it. Viña is nice and modern, with big buildings right on the coast. There's a Starbucks, one of the few outside Santiago, and the oldest casino in Chile. Viña is one of the biggest music scenes in Latin America, and most major performers in the spanish speaking world played there before hitting it big, because of this there are a lot of great concerts. I only ate lunch on the beach, before heading to Valparaíso, which is [View Full Entry]

Pancake Panqueque - Nicholas Myers | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 4th 2009 | 48 Views | [diary=450585]

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The Chilean Navy

By luzia
October 21st 2009
Chile South America » Chile » Valparaíso Region » Valparaíso
So schnell vergeht die Zeit. Und schon sind wir in Chile...ok, wir sind auch sehr schnell gereist...aber es gibt noch so viel,was von uns gesehen werden will. In Mendoza haben wir eine super Zeit verbracht. Das Weindegustieren haben wir sehr genossen und deshalb fast die ganze Zeit dabei verbracht:-) Auch sind wir Paragliden gegangen und haben sonst Mendoza unsicher gemacht. Bilder die viel mehr aussagen, als meine Worte hier, findet ihr unter dem Buenos Aires Eintrag. In Santiago waren wir nur gerade 2 Tage (nicht schon wieder Grossstadt) und sind nun in Valparaiso. Hier muessen wir natuerlic [View Full Entry]

luzia - Reisli nach Lateinamerika | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 21st 2009 | 43 Views | [diary=447023]

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Santa Lucia in Santiago

Sept 24, 2009 We made a phone call to LAN airlines and got the good news that Justin’s luggage finally arrived! Yay! That meant that we would have deodorant and Justin can finally change out of his smelly clothes. So, we got up early because A) we had to go all the way back to the airport to pick up Justin’s luggage and B) we wanted to make the most out of the day in Viña del Mar. We took a bus (much much cheaper than cabbing) to the airport and got lost trying to find the LAN airlines office. I’m [View Full Entry]

justin and rumiko - Justin Allison and Rumiko Takeuchi-Jones | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 1st 2009 | 123 Views | [diary=441121]

Valpraiso
El Perro
Valpraiso

Valparaiso and Vina del Mar are supposedly the places where the Chileans go when they need to get out of the city. We decided to visit Valparaiso, or "Valpo", as apparently most people go to Vina del Mar. Valpo is a port city set out on an array of hills. It's most striking feature is the graffiti everywhere (well, that and the dog poop). It all goes together to create a laid back feel and you can see how the town got its bohemian reputation. We decided to take a taxi from the bus station to the hostel. After a bit [View Full Entry]

SineadandPhilippeRTW - Sinead Neylon Philippe Counet | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 23rd 2009 | 91 Views | [diary=436296]

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Valparaiso
Street dogs in Valparaiso

NOTE LOCATION. CHILE HAS BEEN EXITED. 4 AND A HALF MONTHS. done. were i draw some sort of flashy excel chart then it woudl show a quirky purple line´s gradient gradually steapening as chilean life takes on. Superb final two months, complete with un poco español, a little bit of jessica by my side and muchos aventuras. Post the week long winter adventure it was decided chilling out at near by beaches might be a better option, with teh bonus of 4 walls, mamma uno and a variety to the diet of much loved pan. BUENO QUEQUE (in ingles means NICE [View Full Entry]

Andrex - What Andrex left the country? | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 7th 2009 | 36 Views | [diary=431421]


Party on a Prayer My epileptic horse dance moves aren’t really impressing here (not sure they really did in England - but then everyone was so smashed, gazeaboed, mullered, bogrolled - you know Michael McKintyre? - to notice). O yeah, we just hit a month with absolutely no alcohol. Final taster of the devils urine was a pint in Atlanta airport´s TGI Fridays. Was so weird, kept on asking people if my luggage was defiantly going to be transferred to Santiago flight. Walked past this amazing lounge, really luxurious with swish, pearl grey seating and glass laptop tables. WOW, I [View Full Entry]

Andrex - What Andrex left the country? | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 29th 2009 | 30 Views | [diary=423433]


We left Auckland shortly after 6pm on Saturday June 27th and after 11.5 hours on the plane, we touched down in Santiago just after 1pm on Saturday June 27th. Magic! Crossing the international date line would wreak havoc on our body clocks for the next week and a half though. During the flight, we were amused by the "map" of the plane's route which consisted of a blue square labelled South Pacific Ocean most of the time. At one point, we did see a recognisable land mass in the shape of Tahiti which popped up briefly on the map as a [View Full Entry]

Dee and Lorna - Dee and Lorna | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 30th 2009 | 255 Views | [diary=414615]

Colourful cobbled streets
Cueca Dancing
Bellavista bar

So, we move on to Part 2 of the Chilean adventure. By the by, Chileno is very difficult to understand. I have to retune my ears to that particular accent of Spanish, but I´m not doing too badly. Anyway, I digress. So I spent a couple of days in Valparaiso, or Valpo as the locals call it. There is a stark difference with Santiago. The latter is serene whilst Valpo is more edgy. Difficult to say which city I prefer as they are so different! Valpo is a city built on 42 hills. There is no order in the layout, streets [View Full Entry]

The adventures of TJ and the Beej in South America - Leena Beejadhur | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 5th 2009 | 44 Views | [diary=415494]

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So after our little jaunt to La Serena we headed back south to Valparisio or as it is known locally Valpo. We arrived at our hostel and headed out and found some dinner. Saturday morning we headed to the supermarket as our first mission so that I could buy some washing powder and get all my clothes washed in the hope that it would solve my allergy problems. That sorted we headed out into the town with map in hand and various areas marked up as places of interest by the hostel owner. We walked the local streets around the hostel [View Full Entry]

Brimster - Andrea | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 19th 2009 | 84 Views | [diary=409557]

Monument and resting place of Arturo Prat and some English Naval dignitaries
A trolleybus on the streets of Valpo
One of the 15 funiculars in Valpo


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