Photograph of stairway leading up Cerro Conception (Conception hill), in the port town of Valparaiso, Chile

The hills in Valparaiso have been traditionally the residential areas, while most of the shops and the port are downhill by the seaside. Out of cleverness and necessity, they implemented this "elevator cars" around the 1890s to ease transportation between the residential hills and the business districts downhill. They are still working today, and most of them still are using the original cars from the 1800s. The ride is not what you would call smooth, but it's really cheap and one of the…

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Valparaiso, Chile

Planning a trip to the colourful, hippie, seaside city of Valparaiso? This travel guide will give you some ideas of things to do in Valparaiso on your visit

Traveling to Chile & planning to visit Valparaíso? Here we interview Cristián Faúndez, a Chilean local who shares his top insights & Valparaíso travel tips. Click through to read now...

Traditional Colourful Houses, Valparaíso, Unesco World Heritage Site, Chile, South America

Really not how I had envisioned this map at all. After spending so long making the pencil sketches, then completely re-doing them to make my first coloured buildings, I realised I was spending far far too long messing about. I would like to make another map pronto, but this time in the way I had imagined it from the beginning. I loved my pencil sketches, but they were really constricting in the end. This was the best I could do with them, I tried colouring them (see previous post) but that…

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Essas duas cidades famosas do litoral chileno e é bem fácil ir de Santiago a Valparaíso e Viña del Mar inclusive por conta própria.

Valparaíso, ou Valpo, fica pertinho de Santiago e merece muito mais do que um bate e volta. Os grafites, que são presença constante por toda a cidade, dão a graça e o charme ao porto mais movimentado do Chile

Quem é apaixonado por livros não pode perder esse rolê literário, de Cora Coralina a Ernest Hemingway