Valparaíso and Viña del Mar

Valparaíso


Monday, 24. January

In a very very morning, after 1 hour of sleep only, I went to terminal de bus to meet my friend Wayne arriving from Conception. After a short breakfast we went by bus to Valparaiso at the Pacific Ocean. After we took places I told Wayne that I am very happy to see him again (we spent time before in Ushuaia and El Chalten) but... I am very tired and before I finished my sentence I fell asleep (do you remember film Madagascar? the Giraffe fell asleep when speaking, it was just the same). Actually I am a very good traveller because I can just sleep wherever and under almost every conditions... We had a hostel in Cerro Conception.
Valparaiso is a town situated directly on the pacific ocean coast and is known as a cultural capital of Chile. In Valparaiso there are many hills, all of them covered by plenty of small and bigger houses, painted colourfully. You can reach the hills by feet or with built between 1883 and 1916 ascensores.

 

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Inhabitants of Valparaiso and Viña are much more relaxed than those in Santiago

In Valparaiso at the main street. Murales are the characteristical mark of Valpo.

I lived in Cerro Conception, full of cosy and narrow streets and georgeous murales.

Crazy people, crazy houses...

and crazy murales. Unfortunatelly one has to be artist to be allowed to paint the wall. And if somebody just feels like?

Phantasy world

Dancing tango with PapaRazzi

Keeping in touch with a  Selknam, a patagonian Indian. (pictures of which I bough in Puerto Natales in December, sent home from Bariloche and I have heard that they have already arrived safely in Goettingen, verdad?)

sweet Volkswagen

Viña del Mar

Tuesday, 25. January

In the morning I went bey a train to neighbour city, Viña de Mar, to meet Francisca at Reloj de Flores, flower clock. Viña del mar is much more elegant than Valparaíso, with clean boulevards and many green gardens.  That is the place where good situated inhabitants of Santiago built their villas. We had a great coffee at the sea side and went for a walk in Viña... Comida with Wayne who joined us and afterwards we relaxed at the playa... It is still hard to believe that this is January...

The flower watch

La playa in Viña

Preparing for a literary great chess play

A freshly painted horse

Castello Wulff. Great interior!  I would be more than satisfied to have just modest  30% of its surface with similar localisation. There were glass windows in the wooden floor allowing gazing at the waves....

Taxis waiting

Helados seller

Our comida

There are giraffes in Chile!

Sand+surfing

How I imagine just perfect January!

The war begun and nobody has noticed...

In the evening we went to a cool bar Piedra Feliz. Believe, in Poland indeed we have other things than wódka, too...

Wednesday, 25. January

Another very sunny day... With Francisca we did nice walks in Valpo (=Valparaíso)  in Cerro Conception and Cerro Alegro.We had great views and some unespected views, too.

Who has said that I cannot begin my day with pisco sour?

View from Cerro Allegro

Francisca :)

Unespected views. Pardon, obviously we disturbed this photo shooting...

We meet again with Mayke. Most probably we will see eachother in Buenos Aires...

In the evening I went back to Santiago to make me rady for the way to the north of Chile and later - Bolivia.

Thursday, 26. January

Lazy day in Santiago de Chile. I booked a flight to Calama in the very north of Chile - I am planning to go to the driest desert of the world, Atacama and spend a few days in a small town called San Pedro de Atacama. In the evening - the last supper in Santiago (pancakes with whit cheese, raspberries and strawberries, made by me) and a great pisco sour (made by Yercko). Again just an hour of sleep. The alarm will ring at 03:00 a.m....