Saturday, October 13, 2007

Valparaíso, Chile

For about the past ten days, I´ve been in Chile´s second largest city, Valparaíso. It´s an amazing city, built next to the ocean and surrounded by cliffs. Kind of reminds me of a Chilean San Francisco, but much smaller.

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There are a lot of brightly painted buildings, meandering paths and stairways, and tons of murals and graffiti.

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Pasajo de los sueños (Passage of Dreams)

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Part of an outdoor museum. Twenty or so famous Chilean artists designed murals and university art students painted them.

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Everything gets painted here

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In case you´re too lazy to walk up the stairs, you can take an ascensor up the hill for between $.20-$.40

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Naval building

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Strange statue

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In one of the small plazas

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They even have pelicans here! My first since Australia

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2 comments:

Cakespy said...

I love that first photo with the colorful buildings. Sigh, I am having such trip envy right now. Hope you are well, Tasha!

sharon said...

You are going to have so much fun living here! I can't wait for a picture of your house and room mates. Carry on!