Today we did something different – we walked! Ahem. Santiago has a great metro system, a gazillion buses everywhere, taxi’s by the...erm...truck load, but there’s nothing like
a 5 hour walk to really get you lost in a foreign city. We walked from our central hotel over to the Pablo Neruda museum, then over to Sanhattan to meet Juan for lunch at one of the older restaurants in Santiago, where we tried some typical Chilean meals. I forget what they’re called (getting older, I’m slowly losing the ability to retain information), but they were GOOD.
After lunch we WALKED around Sanhattan passing a weird spirally thing just randomly placed inbetween buildings. If it weren't so darn huge, I might get one for my back garden (when I figure out where I want to live, get a house, with a garden...). At last, we figured out a way to cross the river and headed for the Parque des Esculturas – a park with random sculptures dotted throughout. Some of the prettier ones deserve to be exhibited on the blog...
Last afternoon in a foreign city, what do you do? You go shopping! A woman in the shop we visited in patio Bellavista told us about a large craft shop enclave in the Eastern side of the city, about 25 minutes by taxi from the city center. Los Domenicos is basically a tourist destination, but interesting and charming nonetheless. It has jewelry, pottery, sculpting, painting, little cafes, pet shops, clothing made from alpaca wool, leather goods, etc etc etc. We taxid out there and headed for the sister-shop where the husband of the Patio Bellavista woman gave us a tour of their small jewelry workshop.
We’re a bit sad to be leaving Santiago, but my feet are grateful and looking forward to my butt taking over on the 4 day cruise from Punta Arenas!
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