Pichilemu - Day 1 [10/04]

After the infamous history test, Selma, Scarlett, Scarlett's boyfriend Dave and I got on a bus to Santiago to start our Pichilemu weekend adventure. Pichilemu is about four hours south of Valparaiso, and known around the world for it's great surfing conditions.


[Selma, Scarlett and Dave on the Vina-Santiago bus]

To get to Pichilemu from Valparaiso or Vina on the bus, you have to first take a bus to Santiago, and then a bus to Pichilemu. The bus from Vina to Santiago leaves about every 15 minutes, is a nice, clean bus and only costs about 2 USD for students. When we got to Santiago, we had to find a bus that went to Pichilemu, and decided to take a Pullman del Sur Bus that left about an hour later. This bus cost about 7 USD and was way different than the bus from Vina to Santiago. First, it was an older bus, which meant it was less comfortable. But, it also started to get kind of strange when we got out of Santiago into the country-side. Basically, the bus turned into a micro; stopping to let people off and on, and there were even lots of people standing in the isle.

We got into Pichilemu at about 9:30 p.m., making the whole trip last about six hours, and had a taxi take us to our hostel. This involved the taxi driver strapping Dave and Scarlett's boards to the roof.



Scarlett had booked us rooms at the Pichilemu Surf Hostel, a new and clean hostel located super close to the ocean and across the street from Puente Holandes, a restaurant owned by the hostel owner, Marcel.


[nice clean rooms... and suuuper comfy beds]

After unpacking, we checked out the restaurant with a glass of wine from the restaurant and Marcel lit up the bonfire for us to warm up a little.


[bottle of wine from a winery near by... had an interesting story of the maker selling helicopters to Iraq and not being able to leave Chile because of the US Government or something...]


[Marcel lighting up the bonfire on the beach]