Touring of Vina del Mar and Valparaiso

This is the tours of the "sister cities" Vina and Valpo. They are divided by a street and people (like me) travel between them daily. I actually live in Vina del Mar, but take the bus to the university in Valparaiso.

However, the unique thing about the university is that they pride themselves on being "part of the community." In theory is nice, but in actuality not so fun. Meaning that they have the school in different buildings throughout Vina del Mar, Valparaiso and another city close by. This makes traveling and getting around kind of tricky at times, but fun! haha.

Anyways, we visited the second of three houses of Pablo Neruda. Once again, its like a ship. Then went up and down the many hills and historic parts of Valparaiso. In Vina, we went to the Vergara Garden. It used to be owned by the foundng family of Vina del Mar. However, now it hosts the city amphitheatre, a beautiful garden and museum (in the old house). Sadly though, the house suffered a lot of damage from the earthquake and is no longer open to the public. The garden was gorgeous though!







The next set of pictures are of the rich and historic part of Valparaiso and the boat to that we got to take! It was so neat to see the view from the bay, see the sea lions up close, and see the Chilean Navy ships up close and personal!