Day 1

- Take a Tur-bus from Mendoza to Santiago de Chile

- Use 1,5 hour at the immigration checkpoint causing confusion because you do not speak Spanish

- Check in to Happy Housing Hostel in Santiago

- Buy tickets to the Bohemian town of Valparaiso

- Go for a walk in the city

Day 2

- Take a Tur-bus from Santiago to Valparaiso

- Buy 25 kg of the best fruit and vegetables you ever had at the local farmers marked

- Check in to hostel La Luna Sonrisa

- Try to take a nap but get wakened by an earthquake!!!

- Stroll around the town and look at the many paintings and colours on the houses

Day 3

- More strolling around town...

Day 4

- Get wakened early by an earthquake

- Take a colectivo to the nearby town of Quantay

- Read a book by the sea and get a terrible sun burn

- Have a nice fresh fish for lunch

Day 5

- Wish you put on more sunscreen!

- Go to another nearby town Vina Del Mar

- Go back

- Have dinner at funny little Cafe J Cruz

Day 6

- Go back to Santiago

- Check into Happy Housing again

- Go shopping for a LARGE steak

- Watch TV, drinking champagne and again getting disturbed by another earthquake

Day 7

- Take a long walk in one of Santiago's many parks

- Take a Tur-bus to the airport

- Take a plane to LA