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South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago December 8th 2005

Just arrived in Santiago de Chile this afternoon, and despite having heard that it´s not a very attractive city, my first impressions are good. From what I saw of it, the journey across the Andes from Mendoza to Santiago was absolutely stunning. Unforntunately slept through most of it, having only had 45 minutes sleep the night before because wanted to have a night out in Mendoza before leaving! Should be doing the same journey again with Nick in about 3 weeks though so I´ll take it in better that time. Spent 5 nights in Mendoza at another good hostel with a nice bunch of people. Was thoroughly lazy for most of the time, either chilling at the poolside in the hostel, listening to Tango music in the main square or wandering around the largest urban park ... read more
Jade, Melanie, Me and Danin at thermal baths in Cacheuta
Me and Melanie on bus

South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago December 8th 2005

NO MORE HAM AND CHEESE! Please PLEASE! They serve jamon y queso on the airplane, in every cafe, at the bus stop, every freakin country in south america, i'm going to die. When i get back to new york, im making each one of my friends go to an asian restaurant with me one at a time, because if i dont get some non-jamon-y-queso soon, i´m going to starve myself. We took this AMAZING bus over the andes mountains to get to chile (9 hours maybe?). It was $15 which wont even get you to New Haven Connecticut. You spend 4 hours leisurely climbing the mountains...everywhere is a postcard picture..with the snow and the grass and views and the clear lakes...and then after customs you go down the mountain in 10 curvy roads in like 10 ... read more
Meeting Expats
Some of the poor flats on the Mountain
Guys hanging at the Park

South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago December 6th 2005

Hi all! Yes! we've safely arrived in Chile, although at one point we thought we wouldnt get in, thanks to an uptight immigration officer who scrutinized Ann Marie's passport... However, after he reluctantly stamped our passports we finally arrived in the buzzing Bellavista area, and to the ultra cool Bellavista hostel - where everyone is really friendly! Friday night, our first night, we met a group of fellow travellers from Australia, Scandinavia, Canada, Holland and New Zealand, and about 1am - parties dont get started till this time - we all headed to Havana Salsa nightclub, where we've discovered our love for the VERY POTENT Chilean drink, Pisco Sour! They had a cool salsa band playing on a friday night but as the night wore on the music changed and thanks to the Pisco we found ... read more
Views from Cerro San Cristobal
Views from Cerro San Cristobal
The Virgin Mary

South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago December 4th 2005

After our tour of peru, we flew to santiago in chilie for a few days. apart from the language, it could almost be an american city. very clean and westernized. chill time!... read more
me
santiago

South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago December 4th 2005

Jeudi 1, vendredi 2 et week-end du 3 et 4 décembre : Quelques jours d’acclimatation avant de commencer à ‘travailler’, que nous devions mettre à profit pour régulariser nos visas et sans doute chercher un logement. En fait pour Agnès acclimatation signifie pour commencer un peu de shopping histoire de s’acheter une paire de chaussures confortables, nous voici tous deux avec une paire de converses aux pieds. Et l’histoire de visas va être vite réglée, il nous faudrait pour nous régulariser un visa de résident temporaire, ce qui implique une procédure de 4 mois, 90 euros, et des tonnes de papiers à faire tamponner par le Consulat de France, il sera bien plus simple de faire deux aller-retour en Argentine pour renouveler nos visas de tourisme de 90 jours. Vendredi nous nous sommes culturés un peu, ... read more
Là c'est Mathilde
Joule (Julie)
Ciro

South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago December 4th 2005

Mon. 28th. We're finally dragging ourselves away from this oases, but maybe it's time. The hotel's xmas tree has gone up, and with a dog and a 1-year-old running around, it's starting to feel too familiar! The 6 / 7- hour bus journey to La Serena is at last getting rid of the barren sand and rocky mountains, and we are beginning to see greenery - trees even. Tues. The hotel pointed us in the direction of the beach, but the 20 min. stroll turned into a 1- hour hike! It was well worth it - the sand is so clean and goes on for miles. Best bit of all, we've got it all to ourselves. Their tourist season starts soon and finishes in March, so goodnes knows how they make enough money to keep going. ... read more

South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago November 30th 2005

‘Terre, terre !’ Que ne sommes-nous sur la Pinta en 1492 ? Après une bonne nuit, voici la terre brésilienne dans le hublot et nous apercevons entre les nuages l’immense Amazonie (de la taille de l’Europe) et les fleuves qui la traversent. Puis ce sont les Andes et en particulier l’Aconcagua à côté duquel nous passons, quasiment à la même hauteur soit près de 7000 mètres. Puis c’est l’atterrissage sur Santiago et la découverte des transports en commun car nous prenons le bus et le métro (très propre) pour nous rendre en ville où nous attend Mirko avec qui nous allons travailler. Petit passage par la maison de Mathilde et Julie (les deux françaises) et Dario et Cirro (les deux italiens), amis de Tanguy chez qui nous allons squatter un petit moment. Ensuite passage par la ... read more
Un des fleuves sillonnant l'Amazonie
L'altiplano
Nuages ...

South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago November 29th 2005

Que pasa dIARY! i´ve arrived in Santiago! yeeeaaarrhh, The travel excitement FINALLY hit me when i was looking out the window of the plane, waiting to see the first sight of this huge continent that i will call home for the next year.(see photo, i was reeeeaaaalllly excited right then ;·) Hit the airport and managed to spit some spanish at the hoards of taxi/shuttle/bus drivers all vying for my Pesos the moment i step out of customs, like bee´s to the honey. After a 20 hour journey it was a nice little welcoming. Turns out the guy i picked, was actually pretending he knew where i was staying. no pasa nada, we found it pretty easily, it´s on the main square of the city, Plaza de Armas. All worth it though, what a square and ... read more
here fishy...
lazy bondi sunday
TIERRA TIERRA!!!

South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago November 29th 2005

Un blog est fait pour raconter sa vie … et bien commençons ! Cela fait sept ans maintenant que Nico en a discuté avec Tanguy (LE Tanguy Muret, c'était entre minuit et 6 h du mat' sur un banc sur le Prado), cela fait trois ans que ce projet existe entre nous deux, cela fait six mois au moins que nous sommes fixés sur la destination et pourtant aujourd’hui jour du départ nous ne réalisons toujours pas ce qui nous arrive. Il nous a fallu enchaîner la fin de nos stages et le jour du départ et tout a été si vite que nous sommes toujours loin de réaliser que nous allons passer huit mois au Chili ! Lundi 28 et mardi 29 : Jour de préparation des sacs, de rangement et du départ. Après une ... read more
Petit repos avant d'attaquer la journée...
Quelques heures plus tard
Merci Talice et BMGP...

South America » Chile » Santiago Region » Santiago November 25th 2005

When we arrived in Santiago we set about our usual walking tour of the city. Much to Lorna's delight we found a Peruvian shop which sold Inca Cola! We walked to the main square where they had already put up their Christmas tree, it felt strange to see it in the heat, Christmas should be cold! Santiago has it's very own mini 'Christ the Redeemer' statue which we set out to climb up to. Somewhere along the way we took a wrong turn and ended up climbing a different lookout point, Santa Lucia. From here we could see the city sprawled beneath us, and the statue on the adjacent hill! We took the opportunity to have a fairly chilled time in Santiago, sampling a few Chilean red wines in the evenings.... read more
Old & New in the main square
Yes! they have xmas trees in Chile
Historic Santiago




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