We arrived in Santiago around 9:30pm last night and we all exhausted. We had been in the shuttle for over three hours; there was a lot of traffic coming down the mountain. Luckily, the hostel we booked in Santiago put the four of us – Amberley, Mark, Rich, and I – in a huge six-person room all to ourselves. It was nice to have so much space – If you have ever stayed in shared rooms while traveling before, you know to appreciate it when you have a lot of space because it is often a rare occurrence.
There's so much space :)
The next morning we all took hot showers – this was the best thing ever considering the fact that I haven’t taken a hot shower since I arrived in Chile; the showers at the hostel in Farellones were sometimes luke warm, but mostly freezing. After doing laundry and checking emails, we decided to walk and check out the city of Santiago.
We walked through the main square of town and went to the fish market for lunch.
Yummy, fresh fish.
There is a ton of art everywhere in Santiago: architecture, monuments, graffiti art, etc. Much of the graffiti art is political and some of it purely asthetic. But the cool thing was, almost all of the graffiti was positive. It seemed to me there was much more art than tagging.
There are monuments everywhere. They are on every corner, in ever square and in front of every building.
A funny thing I noticed about Santiago is they have a lot of Viking bars and restaurants – that’s right, I said Viking J
Due to the fact that we all thought the idea of a Viking establishment was hilarious, we decided to go in one and have a beer. There were shields, swords, axes and fur on every wall, as well as on the ceiling. We ended up getting sloshed and having a really fun night.
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