We arrived in Santiago at around 6.30am and were unable to check in until 2pm, so crashed out on the sofas. We went out for sushi and then to a museum on Chile’s military dictatorship in the afternoon. This had the potential to be interesting but unfortunately the majority of it was in Spanish.
The next day, we walked around the city and explored all of the sights of Santiago including, the presidential palace, the markets, the park and the viewpoint. We were absolutely buzzing with the market as they sold noodles/ chinese/thai ingredients!! 🙂 It seems that in the supermarkets everywhere we have been so far, they only stock pasta and tomato sauce!
The next day, we decided to do no more walking. We got the metro to San Cristobal hill which is a massive park built on a hill (which we did have to walk up due to the queue for the fununclar). We walked around the top, had some empanadas, chilled out on some grass by the swimming pool which had no water in and then headed back to the hostel to make our tea. We had a bottle of vino tinto and then headed to an Iish bar!
Kerry and Jonho's Travels 