In any case, we didn't want to sit around twiddling our thumbs wishing it were another day of the week, so we decided to take advantage of the good weather and see the city on bikes. As it turns out, Santiago is a pretty friendly bike town where cars actually yield to the biker and occasionally there are even designated bike lanes and bike paths. Even better, the bikes we rented were one-speed, bright green cruisers equipped with baskets and bells. So, yes, it was a little bit like dorks on wheels, but whatever.
Some highlights from our trip:
Bessie in one of the many city parks
Me in another park next to some sort of monument thingy
Me trying to scare the pigeons
Bessie in front of the cathedral in Plaza de las Armas
Me in front of a bunch of people concentrating hard on their chess games
Bessie passing by the stock market
Me in front of the President's House
Bessie in front of an Easter Island Maoi. Not sure if this one is real or not...
Bessie on the nearly deserted Avenida de Brasil.
Me and a Beetle!
Me at an unfortunate street name. I hope this is named after a person.
Bessie speeding by in O'Higgins Park
Me rolling by some graffiti.
Bessie on a deserted downtown street
Me at Fantasilandia!
Just goes to show you that fun can be had if there is a will!
We're silly and adventurous, computer geeks and yoga peeps.
January 27, 2009
bessie the biker babe
January 27, 2009
Drew
January 30, 2009
Kyle
January 27, 2009
DADDIO
THIS is a splendid place to ride bikes in shirt sleeves!
Where I live it is currently flannel time... +15F, 10 mph winds, ice on the concrete with a 70% chance of an inch of snow! There is a 3 foot pile of frozen snow in the parkway left from blowing the snow off the driveway to the right and left like driveway bookends.
I may decide to carve them both with a chainsaw to make flamingo sculptures just for fun!
So Santiago looks mighty wonderful indeed.
Great scenery and privacy in an urban setting!
As always, THANKS FOR SHARING!!!
January 30, 2009
Bessie
January 28, 2009
Alex
January 30, 2009
Kyle
February 01, 2009
Bessie
January 30, 2009
Mike
January 30, 2009
Linda
February 01, 2009
Bessie
June 18, 2010
Ruben
Also, you can going on bike on 68Road to Valparaiso and Viña del Mar and in 8 heours you are there, downhill valpo or viña.
This is only near santiago, and you can discover other cities.
PD: And the street´s name is for a ninethenth´s french biologist named Claue Gay, who explored the nature and gerographical chile
August 15, 2011
Matt Gos
I visited Santiago over a year ago, and thought similar, beautiful but quiet, now I live here part of the year, and have found out actually where to go! Turns out it has a lot more to do then any other city of such small nature I have been to, but has taken me a long time to find most of it, the tourist information was crap for english speakers and did not point out any of the best sports, except san cristobel park.
I am still struggling to google information on bike paths and about how on sundays certain roads are closed to cars, only cyclists allowed (They use LOTS of people to manually control traffic crossings on the closed roads also, very impressive!), roads re-open at 2pm percisely though, be warned, cars suddenly appear very fast.
August 15, 2011
Matt Gos
If you are from certain countries, such as Canada or USA, you should have to pay a fee for your visa on entry, that is because you guys charged them for visas into your country first.
Where the UK allows Chileans into its borders for free, Chile returns the fovour and British people (amongst some other nationalities) also enter for free into Chile in return. Makes sense! And well to enter the USA it is a lot more paperwork, so pet hate for people from USA to moan about paying a fee for their visa.