Santiago

Santiago is really a huge city: 6 million people are living here. On the picture, you only see a part of the city. I took the picture today, when I was on a hill called San Cristobal. From there one can see the whole city, encapsulated by the mountains. But well, actually one cannot see the whole city, because it's so huge that its "end" blurres in the distance.
The weather is really nice. It's summer here and I even got a litte sunburn on my nose, today. The smog is not as bad as I expected it to be, but it's hard to find a piece of green, here.




Yes, this brown thing is a river. On my first day here, I was standing on a bridge, starring at the dirty river when an old women came next to me, threw a plastic-bag full of waste into it and went away. I mean, cultural differences are one thing, but these are things that are really hard to understand for me.




But there are also good things about Santiago, for example I like the colorful houses in Barrio Bellavista.


Many of those cute houses are bars, pubs or discos...maybe I'll try them tomorrow...