Category: Viña del Mar

2022年12月1日，星期四，南美洲之旅第十五天 – Day 15 of our South America Trip

早上4点半起床，快速收拾完行李，5点半预订的出租车就在楼下等好了，今天我俩要重返智利，去距离圣地亚哥大约120多公里的一个海滨小城-比尼亚德尔马。PJG还是没有痊愈，早上还有些低烧，可怜的人只能带病旅游了。一小时五十多分钟的飞行就到了圣地亚哥，在机场坐Turbus公司的大巴， 十多分钟先到了pajaritos站，再转乘到比尼亚德尔马的大巴，一个小时四十多分钟的车程顺利地到达了目的地。

We got up at 4:30 in the morning, quickly finished packing, and our 5:30 taxi was waiting downstairs. Today we fly back to Santiago, and then take a bus to Viña del Mar, a seaside town about 120 kilometers away from Santiago. PJG still isn’t better, and he still had a low fever in the morning. The poor man

2022年12月2日，星期五，南美洲之旅第十六天 – Day 16 of South America Trip

PJG今天感觉好了很多，还是有些咳嗽和泻肚子，以防万一，做了新冠的快速自测，阴性，说来也奇怪，我俩这一路旅行，去过那么多人员聚集的地方，这个病毒又没消失，但是还是没被传染上，看来我俩已经建立了很强的免疫！

Well, PJG feels much better today, but still has a lingering cough and diarrhea. Just in case, he did a quick self-test for Covid-19, and it was negative. Strange to say, we have traveled far and near, and we have been to so many places where people gather – we have never worn a mask. The virus has not disappeared, but we are still not infected. It seems that we have established a strong immunity!

2022年12月3日，星期六，南美洲之旅第十七天 – Day 17 of the South America Trip

早上被地震叫醒了，我感觉床在晃，一开始以为PJG在动，转身看他，他没动，一看床上面的吊灯也在晃，马上知道这是地震，立刻叫醒PJG，我俩站到了门框下面的时候，地震已经结束了，随即网上查到了是发生在瓦尔帕莱索附近海域里的4.6级地震。

I was woken up by the earthquake this morning! I felt the bed shaking and at first I thought PJG was moving. I turned to look at him, but he was still. When I saw the chandelier above our bed swaying, I knew it was an earthquake. I woke up PJG immediately and when we went to stand under the door frame,

2022年12月4日，星期日，南美洲之旅第十八天 – Day 18 of the South America Trip

这次短暂的南美洲预告片之旅就这么快结束了，当时叫做预告片之旅是因为到达的城市比较少，所以这次旅游酷似试探之旅，如果喜欢南美洲，再计划回到这里。现在的感觉也许这是第一次也是最后一次来这里旅行。

我俩晚上10点多的飞机回美国，今天基本上有大半天的时间，我俩把行李寄存在了民宿大楼的前台，选择了再去一次瓦尔帕莱索，看看那些上次去没看到的墙绘。

Our short South American teaser trip has come to an end so quickly. Initially, we called the trip a teaser because we were traveling to relatively few countries in South America, so this trip would be our first. Well, to be honest, South America was not our favorite place to visit. So, maybe this will be our first and our last trip to South America.

2022年12月6日，星期二，从南美洲之旅归来的第二天 – Day two after South America

今天还是在倒时差，不过算是可以静下心来整理在瓦尔帕莱索拍的墙绘照片，并在这里分享。瓦尔帕莱索的两日短游算是这次南美洲之旅最精彩的部分。虽然这个小港口城市充斥着不整洁的街道，横七竖八的电线电缆，看起来凶狠狠的流浪狗，令人担忧的治安问题等等，这个城市还是用它的千奇百怪的，眼花缭乱的，有创造力的墙绘吸引并征服了成千上万的游客，我俩就是其中之一。

Though I’m still jet-lagged today, I can relax now and sort out the wall mural photos that I took in Valparaíso and share them here. The two-day excursion to Valparaíso was clearly the highlight of the trip to South America. Although this small port city is full of dirty streets, criss-crossed wires and cables, ferocious-looking stray dogs, worrying security problems, etc., the city still uses its strange, dazzling and creative walls to attract thousands of tourists like us who are captured by the murals.