On Friday, it was a national holiday in Chile. The holiday is called the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and it is to celebrate. On Saturday we took a walk to a hill called Cerro San Cristobal and it is just past the Costanera Centre. On the way we passed a river that was completely brown.
Once we got to the hill, we had to stand in line and wait to buy our tickets for the gondola. After we got the tickets, we walked up some stairs and got in the gondola. We took the gondola up the hill to a place called oasis. There they had a drinking fountain and a swimming pool. We went to the drinking fountain but not the pool.
Next, we got back on the gondola and headed to the top of the hill. At the top, there was a really big statue of Mary, a gift shop and a shrine thing that was of Mary as well. At the entrance of the shrine, there was a cardboard cut out of the pope and I got a picture with it. The views from the top of Cerro San Cristobal were really spectacular - we saw the very tall snowy Andes mountains in the distance and the city of Santiago seemed to go on for ages. It was really hot so we got some really nice ice blocks (Mum's was cucumber, and mine and dad's were raspberry and Leah's was cranberry) and then headed home.
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