In these last two days in Chile, we had 7 hours hiking on San Carlos de Apoquindo Natural Park and went to the Vega market. The hiking in the free day was amazing and I was exhausted after it. All I wanted to do was lying on the bed and never leave it!!! The waterfalls in the mountains are beautiful. We drank the river water (because we didn’t bring enough water and the day was super hot) which is clean and sweet. After I went back hotel, I found my white shoes were covered by thick dust and they became black. My pants also turned from black to brown…
San Carlos de Apoquindo Natural Park
The very last day, we went to Vega market. I really like the market which is full of local foods and super fresh fruits. I haven’t seen so many fresh strawberries, yellow peaches, and blueberries and I found some fruits I had never seen before. Many local people were purchasing the vegetables and fruits with little carts. The flowers there are beautiful. After getting out of the market, I saw some people selling the lunch around the market and I got one box of the food. That was really inexpensive and good!
Vega market
Liu, the hike sounds like it was a lot of fun! I couldn’t imagine hiking that hill without water so it must’ve been nice being able to drink the spring water. How was the water by the way? Was it sweet? Did it taste like it has a lot of minerals? Would you ever do it again? I wanted to go hiking but I chose not to because I didn’t know if I could handle the 4 hr hike. I completely give you props for being able to do it and I’m glad that you had such a great time doing it. I know that you can finally check that off of your bucket list, climbing the Andes mountains, which is really cool. Also the Vega Market was very hectic, and almost overwhelming, well for me at least. What food did you get from the Vega Market and did you buy any fruit from there? When I walked through and I really wanted to eat the strawberries and blueberries but sadly I didn’t get the chance to. And so you know what food you ate by the market? Because it sounds good! This was a great post I’m glad you had a great time.