viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2009

What to do in Rancagua


Hi everybody, today I Hill write a mini visitor’s guide but it won’t be about Santiago because I’m not from here so I will wirte about my city… Rancagua. Well, Rancagua is not a really big city but is one of the most historical places of our country. Well, one of the important places in Rancagua is the “Plaza de los Héroes” where was the Rancagua Disaster, battle where the chilean army commanded by Bernardo Ohiggins fight against the Spanish army, and well walking from this square through “Paseo Estado” you can visit the Regional Museum where is hosted all the history of the zone even the precolombine one. Well other place that you can visit is the “Medialuna Monumental” where takes place the Nacional Rodeo Championship, and also where in two time it was play the Davis Cup, one of them last weekend against Austria. Well a few minutes to the west through the “El Cobre” highway, there are the Cauquenes hotsprings, where you can enjoy of all the benefits of thermal water, and also there you can enjoy of all the nature of the region with an amazing view of the Cachapoal river. And finally near to the hotsprings like 45 minutes far from there going further into the “Los Andes” mountainrange you can get to one of the humanity patrimony of our country, the “stairs town” Sewell, which is now one of the biggest copper reservoir in the country, and also because is very vivid place to visit. And well that’s all I can say about Rancagua, there’s obviusly more but we have a quizz now and I have to finís my post… See you

viernes, 4 de septiembre de 2009

My opinion about Transantiago...


Hi everybody! I hope you be good... Today I will talk about the transportation system of the capital city of our dear country Chile, the famous Transantiago, which actually in my opinion is kind of a good thing. But well first of all, let me tell you that this is my first year here in Santiago, because I'm originally from Machali, so I have to say that there in my town the transportation system it's a big mess, I mean the buses passes one per five or ten minutes, and they're not big enough for all the people that uses them so, the waiting times are longer. And I obviously don’t have an opinion about the old system, but I can compare it with the TransO’Higgins system, and well it is obvius that there is no comparison, because here in Santiago is really easy to get to the place that you want, for example if you want to go downtown you have a lot of possibilities of busses to take and also there is the amazing metro, which sometimes is full of people, but is really fast. One of the other things that I think that is positive about Transantiago is the Bip! Card, which you can charge with money and then use it to pay the bus or the metro, and it let you change from one bus to another or to the subway, only paying once, which in TransO’Higgins does not happen, there every time you take a bus you have to pay it, so it is not very economic.
And well, that’s it for now, I hope that in the future this system improves the subway lines because that’s the only thing lefting for make of this something nice and helpful for Capital people.
Ok, that’s it for now, see you then.
Greetings!