Criss Colon said:
He took his Dominican girlfriend too! He loved it there.He took loads of pictures.It looks very "European",with modern touches,and clean as a whistle!
Yep, very nice country! Pretty awesome to have breakfast in Santiago on a sunny (well, as sunny as it gets despite the smog!) warm terrace, dressed in T-shirt and then go skiing in Valle Nevada in the afternoon!
Valparaiso is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever seen! At night, it is just gorgeous at night with all the ligths climbing the slopes rising from the ocean.
Vina del Mar is a pretty little town, with increasing number of people investing in vacation accomodation.
And to be a Swede, visiting Chile was a huge advantage. Sweden made a big effort during the Pinochet era to welcome refugees and help people persecuted by the terror regime. I met many Chileans who greeted me in the Swedish language! They had returned home after having found shelter in Sweden. I met people thanking me, as a kind of representative of Sweden, for having saved the life of their relatives. Some of them had tears in their eyes and it was very emotional and humbling for me, to be face to face with someone, who had suffered torture but had managed to send away his children to safety in Sweden. I felt immensely proud of being Swedish at that moment. And immensely grateful for having been born in a safe country.