A trip around Santiago

If you’re a foreigner and you don’t know Santiago you have a lot of work to do. This big city has a lot of places to suit all tastes and probably you can’t visit all of them. Precisely, my work is recommending you about you can’t avoid visiting.

If you’re arriving in the morning or afternoon, the first thing that you need is food. You can going to the central market and eat typical and delicious dishes from the country, passing through meat, shellfish, vegetables, etc. Is a traditional and beautiful place full of restaurants, ideal for eating with friends or family, all this accompanied by the cuecas, ballads and boleros that play the musicians of the place.

After eating you probably want to go for a walk around the city. Well, a great option is go to forest park, near to Baquedano Square and through Mapocho River. If you have luck, you can find cultural events or run into a march of students. If you haven’t luck, you can always to visit the museum of fine arts or take the road toward Santa Lucía hill. Apart from this, you can take a good trip for the barrios cercanos.

The next place I recommend you to visit is The Moneda, the main government building of Chile. For arriving it you need go to Alameda Avenue and take the Subway or Transantiago. If you want to know about a constant problem of the city you must take that options, otherwise you can take a taxi and go to the west. Once there, you can visit different rooms and yards of The Moneda as well as visit the Museum near to the government house.

If you want to keep following me, we’ll go back a couple of blocks to take Ahumada Avenue and walk to the north. This is a typical full-of-people-and-stores road, but you can also find street artists and demonstrations. At the end, we will arrive to the parade ground, a place that I can portray as “diverse”. Check out this at yourself.

Finally I recommend you finish your day with a beer: Bellavista Neighborhood, it’s yards and roads is a great place for walk, talk, eat, drink and even dance and have a good time before sleep and start a new day in the capital of Chile.