Santiago

Feria La Vega

Feria La Vega

Posted by on Jan 30, 2013

Feria 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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Santiago

Posted by on Jan 28, 2013

Santiago

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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