I wouldn't want to have to water all that foliage.

The tallest building in Latin America, at 300m

Huge new buildings, side by side with original structures.

The single track becomes 2 lane at halfway to allow the train in the opposite direction to pass.

As if cornering the market in railway journeys wasn't enough he is muscling in on skiing now.

The statue at the top of the Cerro San Cristobal.

Looking down from the statue at the top of the hill.

Some great views over the city on the way up on the funicular.

I loved the lipstick on the memorial stone, says so much and yet only a few know who they are.

Watching a bit of Chilean footie while tucking into our chorrilliana.

Bars and restaurants all along this stretch.

Inside the yellow pub the upstairs rooms were done out in a sort of bedroom style, quite different.

For free you could have your beer flavoured with various ingredients, but all were salty and spicy.

Beer cocktails, mango slice, salt round the rim, mango purée and some type of spice in the drink.

A Change Of Plan

February 20, 2025 in Chile ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

Despite not getting to bed until around 1am, I had the best night's sleep of the whole trip. Though woke up tired as we forced ourselves out for a 5 mile run at around 8:30am so we could get back before breakfast finished.

Online we found a self service laundry about 20 mins away, but when we got there we were told the queue was about 3 hours long. As there was only one other person in there I wasn't sure how that could be the case but my Spanish isn't good enough to argue the point. Or maybe my Spanish wasn't good enough to understand exactly what she was saying, either way there's always Buenos Aires for washing.

So instead we spent the afternoon on a hop on, hop off bus tour, including a trip on the funicular taking you upto the summit of Cerro San Cristobal and then a cable car along along the hill to then pick up the bus again. Though we had to go up the funicular again at the end of the day as Carol thought she could get her fridge magnet else where. Only to find nowhere else did them, as Santiago isn't really that touristy a town.

We finally got off the bus in Belavista, the area where we took the funicular. The place has several streets packed with bars, restaurants, and clubs which we'd never have know about without doing the bus tour.

For dinner we settled on a place called El Palacio de la Corrilliana. A Corrilliana is a plate of chips covered in another dish, this was our first meal in Chile in San Pedro. It could be a plate of chips covered in a bolognese sauce and grilled cheese, or fish or meat or vegetarian fare. We settled for the chips with a beef stroganoff on top and very nice it was too. We went for a single portion which was enough for both of us. The table of 5 behind went for the large and left with polystyrene cartoons of what they couldn't finish.Read more