VaLpArAiSo: A cRaZy CiTy On A HiLl

We spent five days in Valparaiso. We did a lot of things there. We would take really long walks there (one time we went to the Chilean poet Pablo Nerurda's house). His house had a pretty good veiw of the port, and it was a five story building on a steep hill.

There are a lot of steep hills, and some of them were so steep that cars couldn't go up them, so you would have to walk up on these really steep stair cases. They have these "hillside elevators", called ascensiors, that would get you up a hill if you didn't want to walk up. Once again they were in strike, so we didn't get to go in one. There was also a garbage strike, so there was a lot of trash on the streets.

A lot of stray dogs and cats were wandering around. A couple of times a dog would start following us to see if we would give it food. Most of them were mellow but some of them were a bit feisty.

The purple house in the background is ours.

Some of the houses were really nice and some were not so nice (I mean they were all rotten and wood was sticking out every were). The city had a lot of crazy murals everywhere like on the sides of buildings and on stair cases. I liked some of them, but some of them were a bit weird, like naked weird. The ones I liked best were the ones with aliens and monsters. I think that the murals made the city more interesting.



My brother and I jumping from sidewalk to sidewalk.

 We watched a video of these guys who did this mountain bike race called the Valparaiso Downhill. In the race they went down the really steep hills and on the really long stairs. I would never ever do this because it looked crazy!!!