After a night in Santiago we caught an afternoon bus 2 hours away to Chile's largest Port city of Valparaiso. Immediately we all loved the quirky and artsy vibe of Valpo. We walked checked into Hostel Caracoal and took a walk about town, stopping at a nice seafood diner for lunch. The rest of our time in valpo was just spent walking up and down the impossibly steep hills taking photos and enjoying the colorful buildings, tiled lampposts, and funky graffiti.
We spent 3 nights in Valpo, on one of these days Abby, Katie and I took the bus just 15/20 minutes to beach town of Vina del Mar. We enjoyed the afternoon laying on the sand. The water was icy cold, and the wind was a bit brisk for a beach day. But the girls coming from snow, soaked up the sun. I think we all got a little red that afternoon.
The next day Abby took the opportunity to catch more rays in Vina while Katie, Josh and I toured Valpo a bit more. We rode up the hill in the mechanical lift system on tracks that they call the 'ascensor'. Katie led our camera to some interesting graffiti, afterwords we ended the night at the tasty El Mastadon restaurant.
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