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| Tie advice from the salesman. |
Santiago was probably where I saw the least of the actual city, but also the one where I had the most fun! So I'm a little lacking on Santiago points of interest but forgive me :]
For booking our hostels somewhat-randomly a week before, we ended up with some great places! The top picture above is the few from our hostel in Santiago--looking out over la Plaza de Armas, one of the main squares in Santiago!
The first night at our hostel we met some boys from Israel (who had just finished serving their time in the Israeli army), and we went with them to pick up Lolla tickets at the mall the next day. Somehow it came up that they had never worn suits before (I guess they don't throw Shmancy Fance parties in Tel Aviv?), which Sydney and I found appalling. So we headed to the nearest department store and had a fashion show. They looked so cute!
We wandered around Santiago the rest of the day, and took the Funicular up the Cerro de San Cristobal. There was a beautiful view! I only wish it hadn't been so cloudly :/The boys taught us some Hebrew (probably just so we'd stop saying "Shalom mazel tov" and making phlegm noises every time they spoke...), and even sang some Disney songs in Hebrew for us! BEST DAY EVER.
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| Dani, Peri, me, and Aviran |
Lollapalooza.
Oh. My. Goodness.
Lollapalooza is a music festival that's usually based in Chicago, but a few years ago they began doing a few international festivals as well. It's in this huge park in the middle of Santiago, and this year had over 70,000 in attendance.
And it was quite possibly the most crazy-happy I've been ever. I didn't stop singing and yelling and exclaiming things all day :]
I was dumbstruck by how huge American culture is in Chile... I mean I expected that people would have heard of Katy Perry, Rihanna, and Justin Bieber, but to be standing in a crowd of thousands of Chileans who know every single word to Passion Pit's song? Or Kaiser Chiefs? Or Gary Clark Jr? It was incredible!
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| Look at those mountains!! |
Of Monsters and Men
Two Door Cinema Club
Kaiser Chiefs
Passion Pit
Queens of the Stone Age
Pearl Jam
Gary Clark Jr.
Foals
Franz Ferdinand
A Perfect Circle
and The Black Keys!
Not a bad way to spend two days :]
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| If their shirts had a baby, it would be my shirt... |
I put together some videos for yoouuu
Bueno, I have so much more to tell about the trip, but I've got to be up in 5 hours to go see one of the 7 natural wonders of the world! (Rough life, right?)
I'll try to get more up when I return next week!
Love you all!
~Alfonsina
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