Interesting things of Santiago

Hi friends

As you know I’m Chilean, I have always lived in Santiago, for that reason I know a lot of places and activities that you can do here.

First, you must be in a good hotel, is very important be comfortable to have energy, because if you have energy toy can go out to every place that you want.

Well, if you want to know the cultural side of Santiago I think that you should go to “Cerro Santa Lucia” because “Cerro Santa Lucia” was the place where Pedro de Valdivia, many years ago, gave the name to the city. In “Cerro Santa Lucia” are a lot of “mini museums” with things related to the origins of the city like ancient robes that people used to wear, ancient weapons that Spanish used to conquer this place and many other things.

Another interesting place to go is Valparaiso. Valparaiso is a city near Santiago, if you travel in car takes two or one hour and a half to arrive to this wonderful place. Valparaiso is the most important dock of Chile and may be the most important of South America. Valparaiso has a lot of history, many things that you can do there, very good restaurants that can offer to you a delicious dish of seafood.

Finally I think that you must visit the center of the city, there you have the most important buildings of the city like “La moneda” that is the government palace, or the Cathedral of Santiago.

I hope that this ideas help you if you lived in Santiago or if you are thinking to visit Santiago, if you want more information you can visit the Tourist Direction of Santiago that is in Providencia.

See you!

Music in my life

Hi

Well, I think that music is very important for the people that do music like singers or composers, and the people that listen to music. For the people that do it, it is important because music gives the opportunity to say, demonstrate and express things that they feel and think. And the other people that listen to music can receive many ideas, feelings, and many other things.

I am the kind of people that consumes music. I listen to it to get out of the world, to forget for a moment all things that I am living, it is very important for this result to listen to music that you like much and really feel the music. But where can you get the music that you like? Today it is very easy to get the music that you like, on internet you have a lot of songs you can download for free. But that isn’t good for the artists or people who make music, anyway I download my music from internet. And what is the music that I like? I listen to all kinds of music, from romantic style to heavy metal music, going trough “cumbia villera”, reggaeton, latin rock, pop, etc. But obviously I have my favorites, it is very difficult for me to choose for example five artist or groups as my top five, in this case I will say that in the place number one is: Sonata Artica (Speed metal style), number two Iron Maiden (Heavy metal style) three Mana (Latin rock), four many artists of reggaeton, and all other in number five.

Another thing that I have in my mind when I want to listen to a song, is what I want to feel in that moment, or what I am feeling in that moment, for example if I am happy frequently I listen to rock, if I want to forget all I listen to is heavy metal etc.

Ok, all for today see you!





Here some links of my top five:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ns-Bzgv21A -> Sonata Artica - Last drop falls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihpxdZFV3Ck -> Iron Maiden - No more liest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qca4cWRhDkU -> Mana - Oye mi amor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDEaO-PhK-M -> Tocarte toda - Calle 13


Ok, all for today see you!

My life and Transantiago!

Hi friends, today I have to talk about the “””“greatest””” system of transport in the World: Transantiago

Some of history, in 10th February of 2007, our “dear” president Michelle Bachelett implements a new system of transport in Santiago, which was design from 2004 until 2007, the name of the system: Transantiago. I remember that day all people was very angry, nobody could take a bus, arrive at home, and many other things. The new system: big mistake. After that, our president said that the ministery of transport will spend more money to improve the system, in fact they spent a lot of money, but the system didnt get better.

Well, of Transantiago I only use the subway, so I cant give an opinion of the system in general, but I hear all days a lot of people says bad things about transantiago, like they have to take three or four buses to arrive at some place, or have to wait hours in a bus stop etc. So I think that general Transantiago isn't a good way of transport.

Fortunately, I have a car, so I don’t use Transantiago like other people that spend hours on a bus. I think that this year when Sebastian Piñera reach to the government, he will change the system for a new one more: efficiently, cheap, and better!