One of the many wine regions of Chile
We arrived in Valparaiso and found our hotel. It's quite nice considering the low price, and is in a decent area of the town. In the late afternoon we walked around for about 3 hours taking pictures. Carolyn seemed to like the architecture, the shops and the slightly less modernized feel of the city, but is quite put off by the poorer condition of the street dogs. Valpo, although now on the upswing, does have a long way to rise and does have a little bit more of a third world feel to it. At one time it was one of the major sea ports in the entire world, but fell on very hard times after the construction of the Panama canal, and even harder times after earthquakes and years of dictatorship in the 70s and 80s.
Old meets new. An entirely new and modern building, encased by the previous facade.
Street art (when its this good you don't call it graffiti)
We ended the evening by walking to the centre of town and finding a place for dinner. On our way back, not unlike my last visit to Valpo when I purchased hotdogs for the street dogs, this time Carolyn went into a grocery store and bought a bag of dog food. She fed some to all of the dogs we saw along the way, although there wasnt tas many as earlier as they must have all headed towards the restaurants for dinner time. We did end up with one trying to follow us home so tommorrow, with the rest of the bag to go, should be interesting. If you hear a story about a Pied Piper of Valpo, that will be us.
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