"Sunny and cool in Valparaiso this morning. We were cleared to leave the ship about 11:00. Mexico and Peru both take dollars everywhere, but not so Chile. So the first task was to find a bank. We´re tried up at the Naval Pier, and it´s about a mile walk into the edge of town. But we did find a cambio right away. The Chilean peso is roughly 500 to the dollar, so changing $120 got me a bit over 60,000 pesos. I´ve never felt so rich!
"Just been strolling down the street since then. Fairly interesting. Thousands (it seems) of city buses everywhere. And no emission controls, so the streets are fairly thick with fumes. The flat part of the city is only about 3 blocks wide, from the waterfront, then very steep hills start going upward. I´m going to first get some lunch and continue looking at the flat area, then take one of the "ascensores" up one of the hills and walk back down."
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