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…
On the map, Chile, a sliver of land set between the Andes and the Pacific, doesn’t seem like much. But the South American country boasts a spectacularly varied landscape that includes a European-esque capital city, the driest desert in the world, verdant wine regions, endless coastline and the Andes mountains.
From Wikipedia... Valparaíso is a city and commune of Chile, center of its third largest conurbation (Greater Valparaíso) and one of the country's most important seaports and an increasing cultural center in the Southwest Pacific hemisphere. The city is the capital of the Valparaíso Province and the Valparaíso Region. Although Santiago is Chile's official capital, the National Congress of Chile was established in the city in 1990. Valparaíso played an important geopolitical role in the…
