Wrapping Up Our Chile Vacation
It's been a month since our return from South America. I must say, our trip to this part of the world was the highlight of my summer vacation. It was definitely memorable. Although this was our second time in SA, I considered our stay here the real visit since our trip to Cartagena in Colombia was virtually just for a day while we were on the Panama Canal cruise in the spring of 2016.
I really am glad we came since the sights and sounds of Buenos Aires and Santiago were different from the ones we've been accustomed to seeing. For so long, its just been Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, or the United States for us.
The days did go quickly and pretty soon, the two weeks were up. Marc and I did manage to see most of the sights in Santiago with two days to spare. In a way it was good it happened that way. It gave us the chance to slower our pace and enjoy the city at our own leisure. There were no schedules to follow but our own sweet time.
Our hotel, the Sheraton Four Points in Providencia was very highly recommended by a colleague from work in San Francisco and it certainly delivered. Big time.
This was the church close to our hotel and we saw it practically every day as we made our way to the Costanera Center.
Monumento dedicado a los carabineros de Chile. We walked a lot on our second to the last day in Santiago and this was one monument we saw.
Inside the Universidad Pontificia de Chile. There was a free museum inside this university which we visited. It was just one small room which had a minimalist exhibit about light.
As we made our way to the Santa Lucia area of the city, we stumbled upon the market which catered mainly to tourists. I bought two leather bags here for $130 total. The bags are made of pure leather and are exquisite.
This was one elegant building we saw. I believe it was once a palace owned by one rich local but has since been turned into many different offices. We saw lots of men, very elegantly dressed in grey and dark blue suits go in and out of this building.
A monument we saw at the Plaza San Martin.
A rainbow flag hoisted very proudly over this building in the Santa Lucia area of the city.
Just like I mentoned in a previous post, there were murals galore in Santiago. This picture and the one that follows were painted on the fence that surrounded a construction site.
We literally walked a long distance to see this church up close. It turns out it was empty and vacant. The church didn't seem to have been completed but we did see a sign with a schedule of its opening and closing times.
