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"Chile" Ilikelani's photos around Santiago de Chile and Valaparaíso, Chile

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Preview of Ilikelani's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/ilikelani/argentina_2005/1162574160/tpod.html This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Santiago de Chile and Valaparaíso, Chile Entry Title: "Chile!" Entry: "So if i thought that i loved Montevideo, i didn't know what i was missing. Chile is the place to be. it was amazing. absolutely amazing. i love it. Me and gina left for Chile on friday evening at about 5 o'clock and didn't arrive until 2:00 pm the following afternoon. you do the math. we went in bus cuz being a northamerican and flying into Chile, you have to pay a $100 "airport tax". it's actually just a reciprocal fee cuz it costs chilenos $100 to apply for a united states visa. anyway, the fact that we wanted to do this trip on the cheap, we had to suffer through a 21 hour bus ride. but it wasn't really that bad. the only thing was that we had to go through the Andes mountains. it was really beautiful but a little freaking going down them. me and gina were sitting right up front in a doubledecker bus. so we basically had a panoramic view. check out the picture of the road go down the mountains on the other side of the chilean border...you'll see what i mean. We stayed in Santiago de Chile in a hostel that was converted from an old mansion. it was really cool and the nicest hostel that ive stayed in since ive been here. Santiago is a really nice city and i was surprised at how technologically advanced it is. its infrastructure is nicer than that of the US and the metro is really nice. anyway, we went around the city right after we arrived and the architecture is amazing. its a colonial city and it was cool to see a lot of the old building right next to the newer sky scrapers. On Sunday we went to a city on the ocean about 2 hours away from Santiago called Valparaíso. this has to be the coolest city that I've seen so far. it reminded me a lot of Guanajuato in Mexico. there are hills surrounding the city where most of the people live and the houses are painted all different colors. but to get up the hills, there are old elevators that you take up so that you don't have to walk. it's really cool. then we went to the lakefront to see the sunset and headed back to Santiago for the night. On Monday we just went around the city some more and climbed Cerro Santa Lucía, a hill in the middle of the city where it was founded. there is a castle and look out points where you can see the entire city and awesome views of the mountains. we ate some sushi at night to try some of their famous sea food and it was really good. So to sum it up, i love Chile. and didn't want to leave." Read and see more at: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/ilikelani/argentina_2005/1162574160/tpod.html Photos from this trip: 1. ". Bienvenidos a Chile" 2. ". el camino" 3. ". Ridin through the Andes" 4. ". Valparaíso" 5. "Santiago de Chile" 6. "Santiago de Chile 1" 7. "Santiago de Chile 2" 8. "Santiago de Chile 3" 9. "Valparaíso 10" 10. "Valparaíso 11" 11. "Valparaíso 12" 12. "Valparaíso 13" 13. "Valparaíso 16" See this TripWow and more at http://tripwow.tripadvisor.com/tripwow/ta-00d4-abae-6ebf?ytv4=1