Valparaiso

‘lift’

There are many hills in Valparaiso in Chile. There are many ‘lifts’ to go up and down the hills, too. They call them ‘lifts’, but in fact they are funiculars. According to…

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To Valparaiso

 On the next day, we went to Valparaiso from Santiago in Chile as an excursion. Valparaiso is the second largest city. When I read our guide book, I had an impression that…

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Santa Lucia Hill

Santiago in Chile starts at the foot of Santa Lucia Hill, shown in this photo. The Spanish conqueror, Pedro de Valdivia declared the foundation of this city on the 12th February in 1541….

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La Moneda Palace

This is the photo of La Moneda Palace, the presidential palace in Santiago in Chile. ‘Moneda’ means coins and it used to be the mint. This building was built by Joaquin Toesca,…

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Gorgeous cathedral

We popped in to the Metropolitan Cathedral in Santiago in Chile. It was a gorgeous church like a palace, which was too good to look at it quickly (we did not have…

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Fish market

The next destination of our tour of Santiago, Chile, was the indoor fish market called Mercado Central. As soon as we went in, some of the waiters of the small canteens called us….

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Lapis lazuli

One of the things I was looking forward to in this South America tour was ‘stones’. Chile is the one of the major sources of Lapis Lazuli. This stone has an ultramarine…

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To San Cristobal Hill

We arrived in Santiago, the capital city of Chile. Straight away we went out sightseeing. This time we were in a tour (only 4 people, though), so we did not have any…