El Teleferico

Cousin Angelica, Tio Hugo and Tia Luci took us to El Tereferico on Monday night. This is a huge park where you can camp, bike, run - kind of like a national park, really big. You can also ride up the mountain on little cars suspended by a cable. It gives you the whole perspective of Santiago - which is a really big city. At the top of the mountain, there's a small catholic church which has a lot of historic paintings and carvings right in the stone walls of the buildings Angelica said the paintings were recently discovered and are now the public is allowed to see them but no one knows who the artist is. Hopefully the artist will be discovered soon.

It was really cold up there because we were so high but being able to look at the city from that perspective was definitely worth it!

Afterward, we stopped by a small neighborhood filled with little bars and cafes - the sidewalks were full of people having drinks and dinner. We were also treated to some street entertainment with two young boys performing a dance with their drums, they were pretty cool. The area is very artsy and there is an open air marketplace with restaurants and vendors selling Chilean arts and crafts. Tio Hugo said it was an old mansion that was converted into sort of like a mini-mall. We stopped off at Empanadastodos and tasted some fried empanada filled with seafood - so good!!