Today, on Sunday May 8, our group arrived in Santiago, Chile after an overnight flight from Atlanta. As we descended on Santiago, we were enveloped in a thick fog. One moment, the plane seemed to be in midflight, and then all of a sudden we met the runway. The pilot did a great job of getting us down in tough conditions.
After going through the never-ending bureaucracy involved with international travel, we exchanged money and were on a bus en route to Viña del Mar, along the Pacific coast. For the better part of the trip, both sides of the road were enveloped in fog. Because of that, the scenery was not much to comment on, but something about the area surrounding the airport suggested that we weren’t missing much.
After an hour or so, we began to come closer to the Valparaíso area, and the scenery changed accordingly. The vegetation became lusher, and neighborhoods of houses began to spring up on the sides of the roads. Once we descended from the mountainside and into the seaside community of Viña del Mar, we were exposed to the beauty of the Pacific Ocean, and the surrounding developments.
We arrived at our quaint hotel, and began to settle in to our new home for the next two weeks. I look forward to enjoying my first Chilean meal, and exploring the surrounding area before classes begin tomorrow.
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