Backpacking in South America

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Viña del Mar
January 11, 2018 in Chile ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Spent the day relaxing in one of the beaches in Viña del Mar. Forgot the sunscreen and got crazy sunburnt, way to go! Viña is only 15 minutes with bus from Valparaíso. I enjoyed staying at the beach (even though it was cloudy) but didn’t find that the city was nearly as interesting as Valparaiso. Great place to do a daytrip just to go to the beach!Read more
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Valparaíso
January 10, 2018 in Chile ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
8. - 12. January
Oh what a lovely city you are, Valparaíso! Spent 4 nights in a lovely hostel called Casa Aventura in Cerro Alegre, great spot!

The colorfull hills and the street art is just incredible. To just stroll around and get lost in this city is a great day spent.

Loved:
- Street art in Cerro Bellavista (and the rest of the city)
- taking a funicular (Ascensor Artilleria)
- doing the walking tour at 10.00 (tour4tips)
- boat trip
- seaing sea lions!
- the view from the different hills
- that people don’t have a leash on their dogs - and there is dogs everywhere. (Many of them are stray dogs - that part I don’t love)Read more
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Santiago -> Valparaíso
January 8, 2018 in Chile ⋅ 🌬 20 °C
Started my day early strolling around the neighbour hood of Bellavista to enjoy the street art. There was almost no one out in the street early on a sunday morning.

After breakfast I went with bus to Valparaíso. The temperature was about 10 degrees lower, it actually felt kind of cold 😂

Went on a nice boat trip with an Australian girl that I shared room with for one night. Went out to dinner with a gang from the hostel. We ended up on a restaurant with a terrasse with a beautiful view of the sunset on the hills.

Pictures from Bellavista area in Santiago.Read more
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Day 3 in Santiago
January 7, 2018 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Met up with my Chilean friend at Plaza del Armas and explored the area downtown of Santiago. Saw the presidental building, of course! We went up Santa Lucia hill, which took us 10 minutes and had a great view of the city.

Went to two food markets; Mercado sentral and Vega central. The first one was very touristy and had mostly fish restaurants. The other one was a local and authentic marked that sold everything you can think of. We got fresh fruit smoothies and moved a long. A lot of people there, hectic place.

The last stop was at Cementerio General de Chile. It was beautiful, and so different from Norway. Everything was in marmor, and some of the family graves looked more like small churches.

At night I went to dinner with my roomie from the hostel. He is from Sao Paolo, and I felt lucky meeting him. We shared some great conversations during that short time as roomies in Santiago.Read more
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Day 2 in Santiago
January 6, 2018 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Met up with my Chilean friend and we walked up the Cerro San Cristobal. It was between 30-35 *C. The hill was right beside my hostel in Bellavista (The Bellavista Hostel).

The hill was very green and beautiful. The view at the top is breathtaking! I loved it :)

After spending some time at the top we went to Tupahue pools at the same hill, which was awesome! It was not a tourist place, so I think I was about the only gringo there - making everybody else snowblind. We spend some hours by the pool relaxing and swimming. I found it funny that chileans swim differently then norwegians. They swim «freestyle/crawl», which makes a lot of splashing! The pool seems like a populare thing to do on a sunny saturday, and it became pretty full by the time we left.

At night I went to dinner with to people from my room in the hostel. We went to this nice peruvien restaurant and I tried ceviche (raw fish, corn and some vegetables in lemon jucie with spices).Read more
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First stop: Santiago de Chile
January 5, 2018 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
5. - 8. January

So the first stop of my journey in South America was the capital of Chile; Santiago. I met up with a friend that I met on Couchsurfing, and he showed me around. He is from Chile, but lives in America. We explored the city together during the weekend, which was really great!

We walked around downtown and went to South Americas talles building - The Sky Costanera. It has a 360 degree view of the city, which was beautiful.

I got to try empañadas, completos (hotdog with mayo, tomato and avocado) and the drink pisco sour. All three of them was great!Read more
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Ready, set go!
January 4, 2018 in Norway ⋅ ☁️ 1 °C
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Trip start
January 4, 2018