Chile con Becca

A bit more of what's been happening...

On Friday Jana and I went to Cerro San Cristobel to see a large monument to the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception. The statue is in a park with a chapel, a smaller crucifix, a chapel and an outdoor ampitheater. There are other picnic areas and a zoo as well. The road up was steep and twisty, but we saw a lot of bicyclists and skaters. You wouldn’t catch me trying to make it up that road! It would have killed me before I was a quarter of the way up. Going down, however, would have been pretty exciting;-)

The view from the monument was spectacular in every direction. You could see all of Santiago and over to the mountains! The day was a little hazy, but Jana said that on a clear day the view was even more fantastic. Here are a couple of pictures of the park including one with a tiny bit of view.

posted by The Domestic Intellectual @ 6:01 PM