Today we took the metro to the downtown and explored Moneda Cultural Center, Plaza de Constitucion and Cuidadania, precolumbia art museum, Plaza de Armas, and streets around that areas.
I think the metro we took today is similar to the Beijing’s older metro lines. It’s not fancy but really clean and comfortable. However, it doesn’t have the railing and the doors close too soon and I think that’s kind of dangerous. The metro stations are beautiful. They have good paintings showing on the wall and the tiles covering the wall always consist interesting and colorful patterns.
In the commemorate streets we visited this morning, I found that they planted trees with black (dark purple) leaves to make the street seems heavier.
The activities in the afternoon are super exhausting but very interesting. I haven’t seen a street so deeply like that before. I realized that almost all the streets of Santiago are different in the paving materials and patterns. Also, benches of different shapes and colors are on different streets.
Santiago people on Sunday looks really relax. They just talking to each other, enjoying the sun, or sleeping in the plaza and the streets around. Every store on the streets is closed. They make me feel that here is really an amazing city.
