Providencia y La Chascona
Providencia is the sort of place you want to live. Everyone agrees…and so it costs. Just to the north of the Río Mapocho on some narrow tree lined side lane off Calle Pio Nono, close to just about everything including the trendy Patio Bellavista, the Zoo, Plaza Itialia and one of Pablo Neruda’s houses...
Read MoreCerro Santa Lucia
Situated in the centre of the downtown section of Santiago, cerro Santa Lucia affords the best views of the city from above. While not as high as it’s cousin cerros, Santa Lucia is the most fortunately situated and therefore popular. There is an old castle on the top, Castillo Hidalgo, and the stonework, wilding...
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SEK University was a short outing that turned out to be pretty awesome. One of the university’s campuses is located at the foot of the precordillera – in what must have been a bequeathed estate because the campus is a varitable botanic garden, boasting old manor style houses, statues, stone pools and even an...
Read MoreFeria La Vega
This is a market. Fruit, vegetables, beans, grains, spices, meat, cheeses, drinks, +++. A real food market that is big and cheap. Just north of the Río Mapucho and the Plaza de Armas, this roaring, reeking monstonsity is an absolute must. The smell isn’t amazing though, so when I walked past the semillería (seed/spice...
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Dry and big and busy, with an impressive backdrop if you can see it. If one didn’t know that that la Avenida Liber Bernardo O’Higgins was the main drag, you wouldn’t know where to place the central downtown of Santiago amongst its spralling array of apartment buildings dwarfed by the odd skyscraper. At this...
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