Día Siete

I see the sea and the sea sees me!

After completing our first couple days at school we decided to celebrate with some drinks and karaoke in a very popular part of Santiago. The perfect way to end the week. The streets were buzzing with people coming in and out of bars and restaurants and stalls selling tons of food. We had planned to go to a concert but the queue was very long and the weather wasn't very warm so some of us left and went home to bed ready for our exciting weekend ahead.

Today was our first weekend in Chile, so we decided to plan a trip to the sea, Valparaiso. All we had heard about Valparaiso was that it was covered in art, much like Brighton in the UK. We decided after such a busy week we deserved a lie in so met at 10am to get a coach. A short 2 hour coach journey later we had arrived and hit the ground running. Firstly we had to get an Uber to the hostel, unfortunately for myself, Sadie, Jade and Jen our Uber driver had no idea what he was doing so we ended up giving HIM directions. After finally arriving and settling in to our home for the night we left to explore.

We wondered around the city (which was built on many very steep hills, much like Plymouth), and somehow managed to stumble across a winter solstice celebration in the streets. This celebration consisted of a 45 minute long march down the road, which was unlike anything I have ever experienced before. It was amazing to experience something like this.

There was so much more exploring to do, so off we went (stopping for a drink, obviously). After trying the traditional Chilean drink of pisco sourz earlier in the week I was not keen to have anymore of those, however we did find a mango sourz. This was like a mango sorbet with pisco in (now this was more up my street!). After a busy day of travelling and climbing the hills in Valparaiso we were ready for bed.