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Santiago and the Atacama Desert

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Hello! I am currently in Iquique which is in Northern Chile. This is my last stop before heading to Peru! This past week I was in Santiago and then I spent the weekend in San Pedro de Atacama. In Santiago I really did not do too much. I lucked out and had a full apartment to myself so I enjoyed the space and I also enjoyed big city restaurants. I got Indian food one night and brought it back to the apartment and ate it while watching TV. I also got Taco Bell!! I was feel nervous after my last Taco Bell experience in Costa Rica but this Taco Bell was so excellent. I got a bean burrito (literally called bean burrito not burrito de frijoles), some small, fried cheese empanadas, and french fries covered in cheese. It was all so delicious. Different from Taco Bell at home but still good.  Also in Santiago I visited the Museum of Fine Arts. It was nice! My favorite exhibit was a room filled with nightstands. Each nightstand was different and had a different lamp on it as well as differen...
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Buenos Aires and Iguazu Falls

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Okay now for the second blog post! Like I said, my travels to Buenos Aires went really smooth and I arrived to my Airbnb in the evening. I had been really excited about this Airbnb stay because I was getting my own studio apartment! I hadn't been in a studio in so long because I have mostly just been renting rooms and sharing bathrooms and kitchens with other people. This was my own full kitchen, bathroom, and sleeping space. Insane! It was so nice to not have to worry about other people and to just get to do my own things. Sunday I was pretty tired, so I just went to bed. On Monday I had to work in the morning and then I decided to do a little personal walking tour of Buenos Aires. I had several hours free because some classes had been cancelled so I went all over. I took a bus from near my Airbnb to the Argentine National Congress building which was essentially the starting point of the Avenida de Mayo which is a long street with lots of historically significant buildings. At the...
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Mendoza!

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It has been two weeks since I've blogged which doesn't seem like a long time, but I have been busy and wanting to update the blog! I am going to post two blogs today to separate out my time over the past two weeks just because I think that is better for my mental organization haha. SOO starting out with the end of my time in Valparaiso, traveling to Santiago, then to Mendoza in Argentina.  The rest of my time in Valparaiso was really chill and nice. I was there until Thursday, and I really just worked and hung out. I walked around my neighborhood a bit which was nice but honestly kept it simple because I wanted to. Oh, the freedom of solo traveling! I left on a bus from Valparaiso on Thursday and went to Santiago for the night. I spent the night in the same hostel that I did before I went to Valparaiso, and it was very standard. I got there before it was dark, so I went to a park right behind my hostel and just hung out. One thing that I have loved about Central and South Ameri...
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