The bus pulled in to Santiago just shy of 7:00 am. Weary, we set about finding the hostels recommended to me by the periodista in the Bellas Artes barrio. Neither had any room, so we ended up getting a dorm sharing with 4 koreans overlooking the plaza de armas. The rooms leave something to be desired, but the location, the patio and the view make it a choice hostel. Check in time was at 1:00, so we changed clothes, left our bags and hit the city.
Neither of us had any time to read up on Santiago. We started with the obligatory trip up Cerro Santa Lucia which offered beautiful vistas of the city and faint ghosts of the Andes obscured by the smog. I was still suffering from intestinal distress, so part of my day consisted of locating the next public restroom.
We walked to Casa de Moneda next, the capital building, but owing to the earthquake it was closed to the public. We then ambled over to the mercado so I could look at all the types of fish caught in Chile.
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