If you go to Santiago...

If you travel to Chile, and you visit Santiago, you will have many options to get fun and have a nice stay in this beautiful city. Whichever it is your intention to travel to Santiago (business, holidays, studies) you must to know this places:

1.- Forestal Park: If you want a beautiful and quite place to walking, reading, or just distracted for a moment, you should visit this beautiful park located near the center of Santiago.

2.- Quinta Normal Park: If you are searching other park, but mixed with art and culture, you must go to this beatiful place. Quinta Normal Park is a public park located in the commune of Santiago. It covers an area of about 40 hectares and its interior has an artificial lagoon. Inside there are many interesting places to visit:

- Botanic Garden and the Greenhouse, founded in 1853.
- The Museum of Contemporary Art.
- The Railroad Museum of Chile.
- The National Museum of Natural History.
- The Museum of Science and Technology.

And many others places and acitivities which will do unforgettable your visit to Santiago.

3.- The San Cristobal hill: Located between the comunnes of Providence and Recoleta, this hill is the second greater height of the city of Santiago. In this place we can found the Tupahue pool, and in its top, is the Shrine of the Immaculate Concepcion, where is the Statue of the Virgen Maria, which can be see it from all Santiago, because its great lenght.

If you don´t want to walk to the top of this hill, you may do it trought the pick tramp.

Also in this hill is the Metropolitan Zoo, with a great variety of especies.

Because this and another reasons, I recommend you visit this beautiful city...

Transantiago, before and after

The new public transport system in Santiago, called ''Transantiago'', began its operation on 10th February 2007.

In a start, had a very bad aceptation by the people. Santiago was in chaos. The people had to wait too time an even hours to take a bus to arrive to their works places in the morning, and to back to home, in the evening. Thats way, many people were unhappy with this new system of the public transport and they demanded the resignation of transport minister, because all the problems caused.

But in my opinion, not all of this change has been negative. For example, before of transantiago I did must pay my ticket with cash money, which was very uncomfortable. In this new system, I have to pay with a card rechargeable, called ''Bip'' Card, a way very much easy and comfortable to pay, and more secure for the bus driver because they haven money, and they not suffer many assaults than before the transantiago.

Other positive aspect of this change has been the reduction of environmental pollution, and acustic pollution, because the the buses are more news and modern than the another buses before of the implementation of transantiago.

The negative aspects I think is the long time that I must to wait some buses, but this problem has improved trought of the time.

In summary, I think that this change has been a good idea, and in spite of had several problems in its start, this problems has been solved step by step...