Day 51 - Use the bike!

Santiago to Valparaiso

We're really getting the hang of bus travel in Chile, a couple of hours on a bus is nothing and we are starting to think the same about 8 plus hours as well .... we'd never even consider a bus ride to Sydney or Adelaide though!

The bus to the the port city of Valparaiso (meaning "Paradise Valley") was a cruisy 90 minutes, no need to book as they left every 15 minutes from Santiago. Valparaiso is built up on a number of hills, your address doesn't just include the street name and number, but the name of your hill as well ... and some of the hills are pretty steep too!

Use the bike!

We arrived at our nice modern airbnb a bit before check in time, so we left our luggage there and walked downhill to find somewhere for a quick lunch .... we were told the cafes were a block away ... 15 minutes and numerous wrong turns later we found somewhere that was open .... maybe their idea of a block is different to ours.

After lunch we wandered all the way down the hill to find a supermarket, then trekked the long hard slog back up the hill to our accommodation, stopping along the way for a Pisco sour, the national drink of Chile, made of Pisco (a type of brandy), lemon juice, and egg white - very easy to drink indeed!

Based on our experience walking Valparaiso today there shouldn't be any overweight people in town, though that's probably nullified by the effects of the Chilean food!

Pisco sours with a view