From Easter Island, Mathijs and I had separate flights to Santiago which turned out much cheaper. We were couchsurfing for the first time on our trip together and our host lived in a nicer neighbourhood with a beautiful sunset view over the mountains.

Unfortunately, during our days in Santiago the weather was cloudy with the occasional drizzle, and rather cool to walk around. That, and the fact that Santiago’s center is anyways not really pretty but full of grey and ugly buildings, made us not like the city very much. Maybe it’s better in the sun, but it’s definitely not pretty.

The only cool thing are the views…if you get any. In addition to the clouds, there’s often a big layer of smog hanging over the city which prevented us from having the nice mountain views you would get, for example from Cerro San Cristobal where we went up by funicular.

There’s also a bar area where there’s some nice graffiti to be found. But bars are not too cheap, you really have to look out for happy hour deals! We’ll probably be back in Santiago later during our South America trip. Maybe there’ll be some sun then and the city will look different to us…