What to do and where to go in Santiago

Any foreign or tourist that visits Santiago, can't miss the next five places or activities, if he or she wants to know the real good things that our city has to offer:

1. Eat a "sopaipilla" in a cart on the streat. This can be a little dangerous if you have a weak stomach, and specially if you are european or northamerican, but I can ashure you that is an experience that you won't regret: sopaipillas are round, kind of like bread doughs made of pumpkin, then fried. The carts offer a variety of sauces and dips to put on your sopaipilla, like "pebre" (onion, tomato, garlic and chile), mustard, ketchup and others.

2. Take a walk in the Forestal Park. In the middle of Santiago you will find a large park that goes by the Mapocho river, its great if you want to relax and spend a quiet afternoon. If you go on sundays you'll find a huge flea market where you can find from clothes to movies, food, music and handcrafts, and also you will see a lot of people just hanging arround talking, making music and dancing... it's a lot like a circus.

3. Get on a public bus. If you haven't heard of Transantiago, beware... You'll have to buy a bip card and charche it with money in the subway or in a "bip point", then go to the next bus stop arround 19:00 and get ready for the adventure, no mater where you go, jut remember the number of it. I won't say anything alse or I would ruin the sorprice, But trust me, you'll laugh about it later.

4. Go to the San Cristobal hill. It's near Plaza Italia, so you won't get lost looking for it, when you get there you can choose between walking up (it's a long way, so take comfortable shoes and clothes), or taking a taxi or the troley. Then, get down by "teleférico".

5. If you want to gou out at night, I have to recomend the Bellavista Neiborhood. There you will find a lot of different places to sit and have a drink, eat great food or eaven dance all night long. You can't miss it.