We arrived in Santiago at 4am, after flying from Houston with a layover in Panama City. We took a cab to our apartment and fell right to sleep, waking up around nine or so. It’s a furnished apartment with two bedrooms and two baths. It’s small, with the kitchen, dining area, and living room all more or less together. We found it through a good service, www.apartmentchile.com after another website www.contactchile.com tried to scam us—after we were all ready to rent an apartment from their site, they suddenly “talked to the owner and he is raising the rent $100.” Annoying.
All my life I’ve wanted a home with a view of mountains. And, here, we can see on a clear day like today, just in between tall apartment buildings, the tips of snow-covered mountains. The Andes, reaching to heights of 18,000 feet (compare to 14,000 max in Colorado) and creating an astonishing backdrop to the city of Santiago.
