Ahora, estamos en Chile...
Santiago, to be exact. We're staying in a place called la casa roja, a pretty cool hostel with a pool!! The weather's been perfect and the city is pretty nice, though a bit expensive. Nonetheless, pretty decent accomodation here is about $30 and a good meal with a drink at a nice cafe is about $5. Not bad compared to aussie. And yes, the toilet paper not supposed to go in the toilet, but in the bin. Hmm...
Santiago is quite nice. We're staying in the barrio brasil, which, according to my lonely planet guide, is the bohemian area. There are a lot of stray dogs wandering around, but they all look well kept! Weird. Yesterday we went to the centro, climbed a hill that is a park, with a church, or something, and went to the museo de bellas artes. Very enjoyable. Then we came back to the hostel and hung out at the pool. Last night we met some Israelis, an American and a Swiss and hung out at the hostel before going out. We went out to barrio bellavista, in the centro where all the clubs etc are. Here the parties start at about 1ish, as opposed to Adelaide where the bars practically start closing. After drinks at the hostel, the cab driver let us fit in not 5, but 6 people into his cab!! But he also turned the meter off and told us he'd do a good price. He ripped us off, we realise now.
It was a thursday night and it may as well have been the weekend. People pushing in line for tickets, lines everywhere. The club we went to was pretty packed and all in all a pretty good night. On the way back we tried to find an atm for ages to pay for a cab. We asked a man who spoke reaaally fast and kind of mumbled. He was very nice though and ended up trying to GIVE us money for a cab!!! We declined but thanked him. Tonight we will try and catch up with a friend from Adelaide who is doing an exchange in Chile and tomorrow off to Valparaiso!!!
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