We left on Sat evening.
The flight with LAN was quite good.
It was an extra bonus that Maria managed to get us seats in the
emergency exit row that had loads of legroom.
Santiago airport was very 21st Century (unlike Rio), and we
got a cab quite easily.
When we arrived at our accommodation at 1:00am it turned out
that our original room was gone. The man
took us to his other hotel where he had space.
He was talking for ages trying to be funny and chatting to us- which
quite frankly dazed and half asleep the last think I wanted to do was chat to
this guy. In the end the hotel was quite
nice (although our room was small). When
he said his other hotel at first I had imagined something resembling a brothel.
The next day we ended up speaking to the guy. He was quite eccentric and even sang to us
which was slightly weird, but during the conversation we picked up tips to
explore Santiago.
It doesn’t take more than a day to visit Santiago. As it was Sunday there was relatively little
traffic. We walked through the park
along the river, seeing the Museum of Bella Artes. The city is certainly quite clean and civilised
(compared to Rio at least). We had some
good luck going up to another park and unplanned ending up in a food festival,
which was mainly local. A further museum
of Andes culture, pisco sours and a view from the ‘Virgin on the Hill’ which is
Santiago’s answer to the Cristo in Rio.
Unfortunately our opinion of Chile was rather dismissed
when a taxi driver screwed us other en route to the bus station, by switching
notes.
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