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    25 мая 2018 г.
    Elaine CorriganChileПутешественник

    Valparaiso and Santiago

    30 мая 2018 г., Чили ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

    Valparaiso is a city on the west coast of Chile. It was a major harbour used as a stop for ships going from the east coast of America to the west coast of North America prior to the opening of the Panama Canal. It is now most famous for the graffiti on the street walls. Graffiti is illegal in Chile however landowners often hire graffiti artists to paint their wall which is then legal. We did a walking tour with Tour for Tips where we learned about the different pieces of street art. Most of the pieces of graffiti were colourful so they made some pretty pictures.

    Santiago was only really a destination in our itinerary as Eadaoin was meeting us there. We arrived a few days prior to her arrival so we decided to learn some Spanish. We booked a three day crash course with Natalis Language School. We learned a lot of Spanish verbs and how to ask and answer questions. On the finally night in our hostel there was a small gathering among guests. We were able to practice our Spanish during this gathering as most people staying in the hostel were from Spanish speaking countries. I was really glad that we did this course because it gave us all confidence speaking Spanish. We may not know how to structure sentences correctly yet using different tenses however at least we can understand what other people are asking or talking about. I know that with practice we will be able to speak Spanish better.    Читать далее

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    San Pedro de Atacama

    31 мая 2018 г., Чили

    We flew from Santiago to San Pedro de Atacama which is the desert in the North of Chile. The transfer from the airport to the town took an hour. It felt like we were in a film driving on a straight dirt road with no other vehicles surrounded by desert. During the drive the vehicle got one of the tires blew out and we were lucky to not have a bad crash. However I was impressed by how quickly the driver changed the tyre so he must be used to punctures on these dirt roads. The town itself was amazing as all of the buildings were made from sand. It was very different to anything I have seen before in a good way.

    We did a tour of Valle de la Luna which resembles the moons landscape. We saw rocks made from salt (and we did make sure it was salt by licking our fingers after holding the rocks), black sand dunes and held hollow volcanic rocks. We learned about salt and minerals development in the desert to form the colourful volcanic mountains. As the sun started to set we saw beautiful reflections over the Moon Valley. It was quite pretty and the closest that I will ever be to stepping foot on the Moon.

    That night we went to on an astronomy tour. As we were in the desert we were able to visibly see hundreds of stars with the naked eye without reflections from surrounding street lights. Our Dutch guide Hank gave us a brilliant lecture on the development on space and the stars. It was very interesting learning about the big bang happened and how galaxies are developed. We then started looking at the stars through telescopes. We saw a white, blue, yellow and red star and learned that they are different in appearance in our eyes due to the distance light waves have to travel to reach Earth. We also saw a tiny cluster of stars which forms a galaxy. Lastly we looked within our own galazy and looked at Jupiter (seeing three of it moons), Saturn (seeing the planets rings) and our own Moon. The Moon was my favourite astroid to look at as it was so bright and big in the telescope making it easy to see it's craters. All four of us loved doing looking at the stars and astroids in space as we've never looked at them in as much detail. It was a brilliant tour and very informative.    Читать далее

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