What to do / where to go in Santiago

When people come here can find it like a very boring place, but it's not like this.Although you don not believe it Santiago has natural places and art districts.Starting from the orient, remember we have one of the biggest mountain ranges of the world, so you must to visit the Valle Nevado, the biggest winter center of Southamerica, and it is situated at 46 km from Santiago and with 107 km of trails you can make activities such ski, snowboard, heli-ski, ala delta and helisurf. Go enjoy exciting feelings beside of a excelent service. In the center of the city, it's impossible that you can't see the great San Cristobal hill forming the ''Parque metropolitano'' and taking their feet the ''Barrio Bellavista''.The hill is located between Recoleta and Providencia and within it is the Zoologico Nacional and ''Santuario de la santísima Concepción'' in the peak, of course you don't have to climb to the top walking, for it are the railsways and the cable cars watching all the city. If you take down, you will see beautiful and colourful bohemian districts such us Barrio Bellavista where you cannot pass by without get in in its restaurants, pubs and discos and the historic place like the Museum-House ''La Chascona'', the extraordinary house of the great poet,Pablo Neruda. Also there are the Parque Forestal and Barrio Lastarria. Here you will see charming coffees, museums (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and Museo de Arte contemporáneo) art in its walls, everywhere! just like the europeans ones. So you can take a walk enjoying the quietness and forgetting the pollutions and noise, feeling you free in a crazy night. Finally you are free to get out of the city and go to visit the natural areas. The Natural monument, Cajón del Maipo offers you an imponent conserved space where you can forget of the rest of the world, going to spas and special programmes of stress reduction wich includes walks, treking, rafting, etc and besides you can do wine tours such Valle de colchagua and Concha y Toro where you will can find out how here the best wines are done.

Transantiago, before and after

When I heard about Transantiago and how this was going to work, I thought inmediately in a bad idea. The bigger size of the buses made me think in a slower frequency, and it was like this at the beggining.
Also I found ridiculous having to take almost always the metro.
Well, such I was thought it was so.
But later, much later the things Started to change and bit by bit, it made better.
As I see: for some people Transantiago is better and others were injured.
I know the yellow buses were more direct, and al though you maybe delayed more, you didn’t have to worry about doing many changes and like this you were quiter during the travel.
Now there are shorter tours and larger too. The shorter ones are master, because there are in your zone.
How I am not from Santiago, I did not use it so much at the beggining and I can not compare with the pre system or with the beggining of this, but I can compare with different destinations: For example if I have to g oto the university from my house it is so exhausting because I have to mix and most of the times to run for arriving early, so it is a little stressful. and If a have to go to Providencia the travel is the best: I take it almost empty, I go seated and is direct and fast.
But I have to say that many things have improved, such as, now the busiest bus stops are faster.
What I do is put a master road in the L1 as those of the green and blue ones, because that line is so collapsed and it have to many stops.
That is all.