Valparaiso panorama

Many of my impressions of Valparaiso were taken from the bus window so they are different from Dale’s. And they may have ugly reflections in them. Bus tours are the norm in the cities so sometimes that’s the best we can do. The buses here are not always up to par but thankfully the day was not so hot that we needed AC.

Valparaiso / Vina del Mar was certainly a place of contrasts — the historic beside the modern, wealth beside poverty, the well maintained and the not-so-much on the same street.

Art was everywhere, even in the food and the flowers.

Check out the size of this tree! And they water everything by hand here! I have never seen so many garden hoses being used in one place before.

Amazingly the old hillside buildings have withstood many earthquakes and add a certain charm to the city.

And now a confession. That wasn’t our tour bus.