It is HOT here! But we have trekked through the heat and had a wonderful time exploring Santiago's political and cultural richness, including an amazing all-night New Year's celebration hosted by our newfound Chilean friends and their gracious family.
We have also made the most of exploring Santiago's urban geology, including a visit to (at least the exterior of) Chile's Seismological Institute at Cerro Santa Lucía, which sits atop a hill of very well-expressed columnar basalt and provides magnificent views of the city and the surrounding Andes.
Here are some pictures courtesy of our resident blog photographer John Niles that I think best represent our adventure so far:
This is Meow, the resident cat at Hostal de Sammy, sitting in the hostel's back patio.
A guard watching the side entrance at the Palacio de La Moneda.
John's well-partitioned beef stew.
Santiago's very own Los Angeles River, also known as Rio Mapocho.
Basalt columns overlooking downtown Santiago.
A view from above Cerro Santa Lucía looking across to the Parque Metropolitano, where we took the Funicular (you can see the vertical line on the hill where the Funicular tracks are) up to an even better view of the city!
Karen delivering a fiery sermon on Santiago's regional geology atop Cerro Santa Lucía.
¡Feliz Año Nuevo!
4 comments:
Digging the blog. Keep the photos coming!
Zi Zi
this is giving me the travel bug something fierce!
are you guys near the Llaimas eruption at all? *has terrible geography and is too sick with a cold to bother looking at googlemaps*
maggie, a friend of erika's
I love what you guys are doing. I can only say that all of you are very lucky to participate in such a great opportunity. I look forward to keeping up with your travels back in SF.
Eric J. Larson
SFSU Geology B.S.class of 2000
ejl8@pge.com
Maggie - We will be in the area of Llaima in about 9 days. It was front page on all the newspapers today, they had to evacuate 53 tourists by helicopter from the interior of the park.
Hopefully the park will be open by the time we reach it; if it's close we will have to take an alternate route over the Andes and skip the park!
Thanks for reading.
Erika
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