Santiago from the Ritz Carlton
After almost two weeks in Argentina, we noticed a gradual change as we approached Santiago. It is a bigger city, with more infrastructure, more high rise construction and more going on than Buenos Aires.
By comparison, Buenos Aires is somehow exotic and maybe stuck in a time warp. Santiago could have been in Denmark or Sweden, clean modern, well into the 21st Century and not the least bit exotic.
Chilean Vineyards
After all of our explorations of Argentinean vineyards we had to spend a day in the Chilean equivalent. The Chilean wine regions are spread out up and down the long valleys between the coastal range and the Andes. We visited a couple that were picked for their proximity - less than 2 hours out of Santiago on the way to Valparaiso. What can I say. These were good, not as memorable as the best of Mendoza, but a nice afternoon. And the infrastructure is there – a good wine country restaurant with Chilean seafood instead of Argentinean beef. Its all good. And now we have to get to the airport for the long trip home.
Between Santiago and Valparaiso
Tags: Chile, South America
