Las Cruces, Chile

There's a ton of beach towns in Chile, given it's long coastline. We arbitrarily chose Las Cruces. It's small and we found a condo near the beach with a 4th floor view. It wasn't that great of a place, but the views were amazing and there was a lot of security.

Chilean's don't mess around with that. Everything is locked up tight and hidden behind walls. What may look like a warehouse district could be hiding a Shangri La behind those ugly walls. We had a locked parking lot with 24 hour guards and other guards walking the grounds 24 hours a day. I haven't felt unsafe on this trip once.

We had 2 nice days at the beach, our last ones of the trip. We didn't see any other foreigners here. It's all Chilenos having a vacation at the beach. When we went to a small verderia, or vegetable stand, a young girl working there just started at me open mouthed. I said you don't see too many foreigners here, do you? And she just shook her head no. I guess I'm pretty tall for them.

Next stop, Valparaiso., the 2nd largest city in Chile.

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