Valparaiso - city of colours

Writing from Valparaiso. The second day in Santiago did not blow us away either. The old part of town honored its name by being mainly old instead of authentic. The difference between up-town and down-town was sad to see. Man in the four wheel drive and man without legs.
We sent to sleep quite early and we hit another record in the night.(in Santiago still).There was an earthquake that made 6.2 on the Richter scale and we slept right through it. No worries, they told us that in Chile you have to start worrying when there aren´t any. As long as I sleep through it, I will not worry about anything :-)

Valparaiso is a small town by the ocean with a large industrial port. In earlier days the town thrived on its strategic position. Large ships in the harbour, quite impressive. If you look for more picturesque places you have to visit the "Cerro´s". The town has a few hills (cerro) and here you will find lovely buildings. The city has well presevered the colonial architecture as it has its interesting early industrial infrastructures, such as the numerous ‘elevators’ on the steep hillsides. They are used to get to the hills. So did we to reach this colourful part.

Well, we are going back to Santiago today to catch a plane in the middle of the night to go to the Atacama desert. We can do with a bit of warmth before the freezing cold of Pagatonië will do us in.
Geysers, flamingo´s, Moon valley coming up...