Sunday, 8 June 2008

Across the Andes



Yesterday we left the hotel room and spent our last day in Còrdoba. We spent the afternoon in the downtown, later we went to cyber at the evening before heading to the bus-station were we awaited our bus. In a shop there we bought the shield of the Còrdoba province as a memory. We are collecting shields from different places, countries mainly, yet we have of Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
At nine o´clock the bus left, we spent the night aboard the bus and this morning we arrived in Mendoza were we stayed two hours waiting for the next bus. It was cold there, and in the horizon we could see mountains, and behind those white mountains with snow, Diêgo loved the view.
When the bus came and we went aboard we came closer to the mountains and the more far we went, the more white mountains we saw. It was really a smashing sense to see the Andes, the worlds longest mountain-chain, from the south of Patagonia to the north in Colombia.
The bus took us higher up in the mountains and soon the path were surrounded by snow, a beautiful view for me, I have never been so far above the ocean level before, but even more cool for Diêgo who saw snow for the first time in his life.
After an underground tunnel in a mountain we came to the border between Argentina and Chile. We got our stamps and after this we went out from the building to feel the snow. Yes, it was really cold up there, and Diêgo´s hands got frozen when he touthed the snow. He was in love with the new frozen landscape we was in, so was I, but not like Diêgo, snow is really not rare were I come from, the mountain tops were more fashinating than snow.
Later we countiued our trip down in serpentine roads with wonderful views. Soon the snow dissapeared and we were in a normal level over the ocean niveau.
After one hour or something we finally arrived in the capital city of Chile, Santiago!
We searched for a place to sleep after chaning 50 reais into 12 000 pesos. We found one place for 8000 chilenian pesos.
We rested in our room before going out after the sunset to eat, and now we are here. Tomorrow we go to downtown, time to explore the new city we are in, in my 9:th country, Chile.

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