There will be several blog posts to cover all the different places we went to, but I'll start off with some of the sights we saw in Santiago in this first post. It was great to be back in the city where I lived for four and a half months. Not much has changed, except it's much hotter now than it was when I left in July! It was really nice to explore the city in the sunshine.
I stayed in a hostel in Providencia, an area that's popular with students. It was near a big park; Inés de Suárez.
There was also another scenic park by the metro station.
During my trip it seemed weird to me that it was summer, and Christmastime at the same time! But it was interesting to find out how Chileans celebrate Christmas and New Year. One thing I noticed was that they put up huge nativity sets outside, something I don't remember ever seeing in the UK.
This is Iglesia San Francisco de Borja, a church for members of los Carabineros, the police force
in Chile.
Palacio Bruna
Plaza de la Aviación: a park with beautiful dancing fountains, designed as a monument to Chilean aviation. They are even better at night because they get lit up with bright colours!
After we got back from the Atacama Desert, I had one more day left in Santiago. On that day, we went to El Templo Votivo de Maipú, a huge temple near to where my boyfriend lives. It is really impressive!
To sum up, I was really glad to be back in Santiago. As I've said before in my Year Abroad blog, it's a very good city to live in, and there's plenty of touristic sights to see as well.
There's a couple of other places we went to in Santiago that I will devote entire blog posts to. After that, I will be writing about Cajón del Maipo, Algarrobo (for the second time!) and of course, the Atacama desert!
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