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April 6th 2010
Valparpaiso, Chile 7:30pm
(the picture is from Santiago, not from here!)
So we made a plan finally...the new plan is to head North into Peru, which means travelling through Chile.
We got our bags and caught the metro to Santiagos bus station, got a ticket and boarded a bus to here. We were both excited to move somewhere smaller and hoped it would be easier. Oh how wrong we were!
Pulling into Valpa we noticed all of the houses on the hills and then we arrived into a bustling city minus the modernisation! We got off the coach and were directed onto a small (and I mean small) bus which dropped us at another square bustling with people.
There were stray dogs everywhere and we had to find our hostel. Of course I had a mild asthma attack but eventually we got to Angel Hostel.
Luckily it is a nice place and we had booked our own room so i could calm down.
We decided to take a walk and got the metro into Vina De Mar, the next town, which was similiar.We had a walk here before coming back. On the way back we looked for a place to eat, of course here they dont have dinner until late so it was tricky.
3 bottles of beer later in a real chilled out bar, I was ready to take on Valparpaiso!!! Hmmm. We made a joint decision that maybe we hadnt give the place a chance so agreed to stay another night. We got a pizza and came home. I was horribly drunk , with a new saying 'dont look at the dogs, just look up!' :) After all I hadnt eaten all day so the few drinks obviously went to my head.
I was feeling the effects this morning. Strong Chiliean beer doesnt go down so well!!! By midday I could just surface and we went walking to find the bus terminal for our ticket onwards. Another mild asthma attack later and we found it, bought a ticket and headed back through the mass of people. Neil went out to take one of the famous ascendors to see the views of the city and since then we have chilled and packed whilst contemplating the next stop, La Serena..........................
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