20 March 2014 – Thursday – Santiago to Valparaiso, Chile We arrived early at the Alameda station for our 11:30 am Tur Bus to Valparaiso. There are four buses from Santiago to Valparaiso every hour. We watched them arrive, park and passengers embark, and then depart, from 10:30am onwards. The 11:30 bus, however, failed to appear. The 11:45 bus, however, did appear, and we followed a Chilean woman who was also waiting for the 11:30 bus to the conductor of the newly arrived bus and he arranged for us three as well as two other western women to take this bus. We never did learn what happened to the 11:30 bus! The less than two hour trip was uneventful and the scenery unexciting compared to some of the extraordinary vistas we have previously experienced on our
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