On Tuesday after an amazing visit to a soccer stadium, our city tour started at the San Cristobal Hill, where we took a cable car called the Funicular of Santiago to reach the top of the hill. The cable car ride was a very fun experience even though some of us very slightly scared of the ride like my friend Emily. The view on top of the hill was spectacular, we guys had Empanadas for a snack (Our favorites on this trip) and enjoyed the stunning view while understanding the city game side by side by our very own tour guide Francisca.
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Spectacular
view of the Santiago City!
For the city game we were divided into groups of four and five and were given instructions as to how to go about the game. My group had my friends Sarah, Claire and Vraajesh in it. We started by walking up to the top of the hill to the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary and took some nice pictures there. The statue was amazing and the view of the entire city was even better from the top. Sarah especially enjoyed the view a lot and was going bizarre taking pictures. On our way down from the hill we stopped for a cool refreshing local drink called the Mote Con Huesillo, the drink was peach flavored with grains inside. (Claire loved this drink!) |
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Sarah and Claire enjoying the Mote Con Huesillo
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After enjoying the cool refreshing drink, we took a cab to the La Moneda Palace where the seat of the president of republic Chile is located. The palace's architecture had a pure neoclassical style with Roman Doric influences to it. Just to give a little background on the construction of the palace , it was built by Joaquin Toesca who had worked on many public buildings in Colonial Chile, The palace was designed to become the new royal mint of Chile and it was completed in 1805. In front of the palace is the Plaza De La Constitucion where there were statues of former presidents of Chile on 3 different sides. The plaza also had many local stalls inn the middle, one of the stalls there attracted a lot of crowd where small robots were playing soccer, Vraajesh and Sarah both found that really cool and had fun watching.
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From the plaza we took the metro to go to the Museo de Aire Contemporaneo a also called the MAC located at BellasArtes. The metro ride was very fun and challenging experience because of the language barrier but courtesy of Sarah, our Spanish expert, the rest of the group managed well. The walk to the museum was really nice after getting off from the metro, even though everyone was tired because of the heat we still managed to find our way clicking pictures of each other and talking.
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| Museo de Aire Contemporaneo |
Our city game ended with an experience that we would never forget as the cab driver after driving us for around 40 mins got us to the wrong hotel. Each of us were trying our best to communicate with the cab driver and explain him. Claire tried her best to mix the little bit of Spanish she knew with English to explain him, even our Spanish expert Sarah was unable to do so. Finally after getting fed of the cab driver we walked around and asked for our way back to the hotel. A small cab ride became a great adventure for all us something that we would never forget. But overall we had a great experience working as a team and discovering the city together.
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