New Year In Valpo

Hey everyone!

Well me and Amina arrived in Valparaiso after a night bus from Temuco. It was alright, although at times the bus seemed to randomly speed up and the lady across from me had a fit which was a bit freaky, but we arrived eventually.
Valparaiso is really lovely. I love the random mixture of houses. They're on top of each other and next to each other and they're such a good mixture of colours.
We've walked around a lot in Valpo and gone up a few of the many, many hills. Local folklore is that you can tell how far up a hill a woman lives on a hill, because the further up they live, the fatter their bums are. We walked through the streets on our first morning here and found saw loads of vegetables all over the street. There was barely enough room to walk.
Valpo is very smelly and dirty. Vina del Mar is much cleaner. We went there today for a while and it's much more touristy.

We're hanging out with some of the other volunteers while we're here. Sammy and Finlay live here so they've been showing us around. New Year here was really fun. Most tourists go to the port but we were told it's better to go up a hill so we went up one and got a great view. We could see all along the coast that had all the fireworks going off. There were so many fireworks of all different types. There were the traditional circles, then there were hearts, smiley faces and loads more. It was great. There were loads of Chileans on the hill that were very friendly and we partied with them a bit. On the walk down the hill we shouted Happy New Year to everyone and the all shouted it back. Got lots of beeps back. It was lots of fun.

In a bit of a rush because we're going out again for another wander. I'll just add some pics and write again when I can.

Evie, Hannah and Me up a hill at a viewpoint

Sorry tilt your head for some chilean street art

Amina and Me in Vina