Santiago Chile, post 2

My post on this got deleted :( so round two.

Santiago has been quite fun, I've failed at most of the tour sites, San Cristobal hill, Gran Torre (tallest building) and not being able to get into Bocanariz - cool wine bar that has tastings and good food.

I did a solid tour of Alyan winery. Although it costs 40,000 pesos, I paid 90 with a tour which is mainly for transportation. 95% of people there were Brazilians, interesting they can understand Spanish, but I can't understand their Portuguese, so sometimes it's a one way convo.. am I bad person if this doesn't bother me too much? :P

Me these guys in my tour group, interestingly both docs (surgeon and neurologist), and we have the same itinerary for the next ~10 days!

Our wine tour consisted of 6 tastings, different presentations, watching the sunset, and finished with a nice meal. I would HIGHLY recommend this.

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1WyJRWUCNXUcBOBoVc5rHiLRUUwdhiLVU
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Below was a tour to Cajón del Maipo. Some beautiful views, but I don't tend to like the trips where you all get on get off the bus to take your pics and move on...this was that, I did as I was told.
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=15NxqoK2TLtP4cTx6suZOiO3Ct_udhg2Ehttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1BGMDWst2vN_e1Z6528sRhLYq9HQG6joFhttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1YRyDQUA4MpuUQMpaCWurgfh-iDkx8Qh-https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=14_zMKry8OuNo-2lguu-6gj6nc4uDTDip

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