Day 21 - Cities by the Sea

Last week we took a bus to Vina del Mar. The bus was a two story bus and we were on the top. I had a window seat and so did Leah, but her window was covered by the bus logo on the outside of the bus. The bus ride was an hour and a half long and I felt sick on the way there. Vina del Mar and Valparaiso are cities by the ocean. Once the bus arrived, we walked to our hotel.

When we got to our hotel, Mum and Dad communicated with the hotel receptionist through google translate. After sorting things out with the receptionist, we relaxed for the rest of the day. The next day we took an Uber into Valparaiso, the city next to Vina del Mar. Mum and Dad were giving talks at the university.

For the next two days, we went on walking tours around Valparaiso. The tours are each about 3 hours long and you finish the tour at the same square you start it in. The tours are free, but you were supposed to tip the tour guide, called "Tours for tips". On the first tour they gave us free drinks to taste and on the first one they gave us these really nice tasting things called alfajores (two cookies with dulce de leche/manjar in between, then coated in chocolate). On the first tour we got to go on a funicular up the steep cliff.

After than we went to a museum which had the history of different parts of Chile. They had a section on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, one part showing the different sizes of Easter Island head statues. The upstairs part of the museum was about animals, mainly bugs. They had so many bugs, there were more bugs than there were other animals. After four days we took a bus back to Santiago. On the way back it was much better because I didn't feel sick.