In this blog I have to write about Santiago, the city where I was born and in which I have lived all my life. Despite the contamination of the capital of Chile, the smog and the polluted air, Santiago is a beautifull city, we have to use our time to know the impressive places and landscapes.
A place that I definitely recommend to visit is " El Santuario de la Naturaleza". It´s located in Los Andes mountain range, near the sky centers. The road to get there is a little danger becouse of the curves of the street, but it´s worth it. It´s a place in which the human intervention is minimal, the snowmelt runs in the slopes of the mountains forming little gaps of very cold water.
You can make a three days walk to get to a glacier, you have to go with tent and provisions.
Another place that I recommend to visit is The San Cristobal Mountain, the highest point of the city after the Renca mountain. You can get to the top in a cablecar, but I think that it´s not recomended to peolple with vertigo. Also, in this mountain is the Metropolitan zoo and two pools, calls Tupahue and Antilén.
If you want to know where our president governs, you have to go to La Moneda, in the center of Santiago. In the North is the " Constitution square" and in the South the "Citizenship square", also, inside "La Moneda" is "El patio de los naranjos", with beatiful orange trees.
If you want to go dancing or to a pub, I recommendo you " the Bellavista neighborhood", there you can find a lot of pubs, clubs and restorants for all tastes.
If you are a lover of theater,ballet and classic music, the place for you it´s the " Teatro Municipal" a beautifull building built in 1857.
I hope you visit Santiago soon!

The Transantiago system is definitely a theme very commented and criticized between the people of Santiago.
To compare the old with the new transportation we must take into account a few points, one of these is the cost. In this days, if you don´t have an student pass, you have to pay a big ammount of money in compare with the old system, but a good thing in this point is that the way of paying now is a lot easier and requires less time. You have to use a BIP! card charged with money instead of pay to the driver with coins.
Becouse of these the delinquency has decreased, the offenders has no longer money to steal, and also the passengers can travel calmer.
A bad thing is that the cover of the buses is very limited, and most of the time I have to take more than one bus to reach my destination, for example, to get from the university to my house I have to take two buses and the subway, sometimes this take me like one hour and a half.
But I can´t say that my experience is bad, I didn´t use a lot the old transport system, so now I´m very used to the new one.
Have been many campaigns to improve this system, some of theme have worked and some do not. I think that an important thing that we can do is to be tolerant and patient, and complain only when is necessary, the authorities also have to do their part, they have to take into account our needs and make more campaigns to keep improving Transantiago.