Santiago

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Various seafood for sale at the Santiago Fish Market.
John at the fish market.
Fish, with very sharp looking teeth, buried under a pile...
Fish heads for sale!
Fish mongers filleting fish. I think the sign said...
Knife goes in, guts come out.
Corvina chica for sale. $4/kilo, or $2/pound.
The designer of this shirt was clearly never very good...
Jay in some large cathedral downtown.
It was beautiful to see Santiago in the spring. The...
Lunch at a neighborhood sandwich counter. Jay with his...
I actually thought this was vegetarian, and ended up...
Jay gets a gelato after lunch. Mmm... dulce de leche and...
John, roaming around central Santiago.
Mounted police, near the main government complex.
John with some Chilean leader's statue in the background.
Statue of Salvador Allende, the populist leader who was...
This was the weird and unique Santiago taste sensation:...
Central Chile.... the southern hemisphere's California....
Jay checking out the skyline from the top of a strange...
Jay surveying the yonder.
Two cool kids in Santiago.
Jay stands in line for a drink. I don't think he got the...
A statue of some guy, with a castle in the back.
Our home in Santiago for three nights (or was it just...
Botero! Everyone's favorite Colombian artist.
There were elections coming up (don't there always seem...
This viaduct was one of the most foul waterways I have...
Riding the funicular to the top of Cerro San Cristobal....
View of commercial downtown Santiago from the funicular...
Cerro San Cristobal.
View from the top of Cerro San Cristobal.
Zoomed in view of our hostel neighborhood. I guess I was...
Sports complex of some type?
San Cristobal I presume?
Tourist mall at the top of Cerro San Cristobal.
Virgin Mary, according to Wikipedia.
View to the east I believe.
I finally broke down and ordered a mote con huesillos...
In case you were wondering, mote is boiled wheat berries...
Portrait on Cerro San Cristobal. I decided instead of...
Another shot of eastern Santiago. I think there is snow...
Hats for sale. The Chilean flag and Texan flag are very...
The other El Trebol, looking far more respectable than...
Santiago graffiti in the Bellavista neighborhood.
There are actually a lot of Japanese people living in...
Jay, waiting for the train at the Metro stop Bellas...
Chileans riding the subway.
Back in Santiago on Monday, I drag Jay to a farmer's market.
This market was vast and represented the bounty of...
Sleepy time! He looks delicious!
Mote and huesillos! So you can make your own mote con...
Lunch at a stall in the market. Simple food, but pretty...
Ensalada. For some reason I ordered this as a side, and...
About the best I could do.
Trying a mysterious fruit with waxy bulbous seeds....
A thousand peso store! Which is unfortunately more like...
Piles of knock-off Chuck Taylors, including some...
John goes on a walk through Parque Quinta Normal, while...
Chilean drum circle.
I decided to walk the entire way from Parque Quinta...
Facade of a 19th century looking building, held in place...
Government building.
View through the window of a liquor store. Do they have...
At long last, even this trip must come to an end. While...
The sun sets on a fantastic one month trip at Comodoro...
Good bye sun, good bye South America! Next stop, Miami...