Valparaiso Adventure

This weekend I went to Valparaiso! Valparaiso is a city on the coast, about 2 hours away from Santiago.  It is a party town: very eclectic, colorful, at times grungy, and full of tourists - mostly Chileans on vacation.  Viña del Mar, Valparaiso's up-scale neighbor, has nice beaches about 15 minutes up the coast.

For our intensive Spanish class, we had to visit a place in or near Santiago and do a project on it.  i went with 4 other  UC girls.  We stayed in a fun funky hostel with people from France, Belgium, Finland, and Boston.  Very colorful, and very loud all night.

Katie and Ginger at the hostal

Doggy nap time

The streets of Valparaíaso - colorful and eclectic

The beach at Viña del Mar