Chile has it all

29.11.2007 - 07.12.2007 26 °C
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We're now close to the end of our journey. Chile is the final country on our shedule before heading home to Venezuela. Our time was limited, but we managed to visit quite a lot of places and do lots of different things. In Santiago we visited the most important historical sites, such as the site of the city's foundation (Cerro Santa Lucia), and the corner of the colonial style streets of Calle Paris and Londres.
Then we moved to the coast where we stayed for a few days visiting Viña del Mar (the beach getaway for the residents of Santiago) and Valparaiso (the colonial port town with the famous hillside lifts). Finally before heading off to Caracas we stopped in Casablanca to taste the produce of one of Chile's reknown wine regions. Very recommendable!!!
In the end we left the country with a feeling that has become so familiar to us from Japan, Australia and New Zealand; this country has so many more places left to visit and to see... We'll have to come back again.
Santiago