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Published: February 20th 2010
So the plane flight was totally crap. 11.5 hours of average food and uncomfortable seats. Dinner food was great, breakfast food was shite. We tried to sleep but it just didn´t happen. Leaving Auckland at 4.40pm on Wednesday and arriving in Santiago at midday on the same day and having no sleep can make a person damn tired.
We were wrecked by the time we landed in Santiago. The landing was ...
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james st. james
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el guater (the toilet)
just as a general rule when travelling in latin america, you should expect to pay to use restrooms so it's good to have change or small bills, and always carry your own toilet paper as restrooms never have any. and what you had at your hostel is not really a traditional terremoto, which is a popular chilean cocktail. a regular terremoto consists of vino pipeNo (a kind of artesanal wine), fernet, and pineapple ice cream. the melon thing sounds good, but not normally in it (although chileans also do "melon con vino", which is wine and melon, just like you describe but you eat the alcohol soaked melon and drink the wine out of it. enjoy brazil, don't forget to have some caipirinhas! cheers!