Valparaíso is known for its incredible street art and one of Pablo Neruda's houses called "La Sebastiana". Valpo is also known for being sort of flaite (sketch/ghetto) in some areas, so we did our best to steer clear of those?
Viña del Mar is known for its popular beaches and summer fiestas. but i guess summer technically ended the weekend before we got there, because after talking to some people on the beach we discovered that we just missed out on multiple DJs, live bands, and hundreds of people partying
we stayed at a hostel up on a hill in Valpo and quickly learned how to use the bus system to get us to Viña for the day. these were probably the craziest bus rides i have yet to experience in south america. we were literally flyinggg and even while sitting down you had to hold on for dear life
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| one of the many buses we took that weekend. this one was special because it had random stuffed animals and trinkets hanging everywhere that were swinging all over the place |
the walk from our hostel down to the pier led us through graffiti-ridden paths where we had plenty of great photo-ops. the artwork was amazing
i was slightly reminded of san francisco, with all the different colored houses and steep hills
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| cute little birdies outside the window! |
Reñaca Beach in Viña del Mar
delicious mochafrapps w/ manjar
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| the strip club where we went to dance that night. just kidding. |
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| where we actually went to dance. the music was AMAZING and super chilean/latino. no north american songs played the entire night! i kept trying to write down lyrics to the songs on my janky chilean phone so i could look them up later. the other picture is actually a strip club though. |
we asked our hostel where we could find good seafood and empanadas de mariscos in Valparaíso. they basically only told us NOT to go anywhere near the water in Valpo because the pier is dangerous - people with knives who steal your stuff?
we still didn't really know where we were going so we just got off the bus at a random spot where it looked like we could find some food.
*as we are crossing the street*
"hey guys, i think this is where they told us not to get off the bus"
and it clearly was. but we went anyway and did end up finding some bomb empanadas de camarones (shrimp empanadas)
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| view of Valparaíso |
and one of the most puzzling garages i have ever seen. if i had to park a car in here there would be scrapes along both sides for sure. i took pictures at multiple angles to show the full extent of how impossible this garage is.
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| that little ledge on the left is at an extremely awkward slope and very narrow. |
okay. so this post is probably the most disorganized i have ever written but i'm a bit delirious at the moment and just want to be caught up on my past travels sooo i'm over it! :)
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