Summary Beginning of the journey in Santiago de Chile: Jérôme meets Joel Martinez (La bicicleta verde) and they make a bike tour through the town; Plaza Baquedano (reference to the war between Chile and Bolivia): they look at the Andes and arrive at the Plaza of the Constitución: Palacio de la Moneda, build in 1805 and severely destroyed in 1973 (coup against Salvador Allende).Then they go to a great market : there an orchestra playing a "cueca" , traditional music of Chile.Later they take a funicular railway to the top of the San Cristobal Hill (850 meters above see level) and enjoy a great sight over Santiago.Then Jérôme travels to Melipilla with Maria Elena Armijo: there they meet Maria Elena's brother, Marco Antonio Barbosa who wears the typical costume of the "huasos" (Chilean cowboys): he is owner of a ranch, horse breeder and citrus plantations: he enjoys riding horses (since the age of three years) and some hours later Jérôme sees a horse festival, fathers and son are making a rodeo (to catch calves): musicians are playing traditional music and the parents enjoy to be with their sons. Then Jérôme travels to Valparaiso, he takes a funicular train and walks to the house of Mauricio Painean (a guesthouse owner): they go to the terrace of the house and can see the port and also the hills of Valparaiso (there are about 42 hills): the houses are colorful.Then Mauricio and Jérôme takes an elevator to go down to the port and they enter into the Bar Liberty, the oldest bar of the port of Valparaiso: they drink a "terremoto", beverage made with common red wine, pineapple ice-cream and a touch of cognac or pisco: on the walls of the bar there are a lot of hats and caps that the visitors used to give to the owner of the bar.Also they meet Antonio Parra Labarca, a senior writer who has always loved Valparaiso. Then Jérôme travels to San Pedro de Atacama: there he meets Aurélien Marteaux, a French man who manages an inn , is guide and promotes the Chilean culture: they visit Fernando Alfaro Barahona , an art professor who became after the coup an potter and a Pre-Columbian music instruments collector.Later they go the Death Valley at 2.500-2,600 meters above sea level in the Atacama desert (only mineral life).They return to the oasis of Coyo where they meet Daniela Vega Vilches, who is lama breeder: Daniela prepares for them a stew of lama meat with wild onions and marinated in red wine.Later they travel to the Andes: El Tatio (4,320 meters above sea level): to fight against altitude sickness they drink an infusion of coca leaves.They see vicunas (the wild parent of the domesticated lama) and meet Elvis, the park guide who shows them the geysers. Besides we see zooms about the Bella Vista neighborhood (a very living place with restaurants, cinemas and discotheques, but also some artists and craftsmen like Constance Posener and Soliedad Avila -Jewelry-: Mrs Maria Elena Ducci is fighting to give more life to the neighborhood by restoring houses and transforming them into apartments or small businesses), about the Desert of Atacama in the north of Chile( an example of oasis where farmers manages irrigation canals for their crops : potatoes, beans and onions; they grow also alfalfa to feed rabbits -their usual meat,.in the same desert we see the Paranal Observatory with its 8 huge telescopes -2.500 meters above sea level-). about the Pacific coast (first of all the Town of Iquique, a very good place for paragliding and surfing, the ghost towns of Pisagua and Jumberstone, which were important places of Chilean saltpeter mining and ports for the nitrate exportation).

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