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Post # 5: What to do / where to go in Santiago
Write a mini visitor's guide of the city of Santiago. Use the following questions to help you.

A foreign tourist most visit places like:
- Square: it's located just next to the subway's station called "Square". You can see there the Santiago's Cathedral. It is a beautifull church and one of the biggest in Santiago.
- The palace of the Coin: it's located just next to the subway's station called "The Coin" you can take pictures, and if you are an artist, you can draw it too. The part of the palace that looks to "Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins" avenue it's decorated with a beatiful fountain. Under this, you can enter to a Gallery, of a lot of things like literature, goegraphy, films, sculptures, and readings associated with the Chile's History.
- San Cristobal Hill: here are many places you can go and visit, take photograph, buy souvenirs, and of course, eat rich. You can get here, using the subway, and get down on the station called "Baquedano", wen you go out of subway, walk north, crossing the "Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins" avenue, and the "Forest Park". Then you will see a river called "Mapocho". You must cross the bridge over the river to reach the hill. Then you must walk right down the "Pio Nono" street, that it's always with a lot of people, local food, pubs, discos, and merchant. At the end of this street you will arrive to the San Cristobal Hill, and there you must walk going up. If you go to the right, you will get to the Zoo, there are a lot of animals and things to buy as a souvenir. If you go to the left, you will get to the top of the hill. And in this place, you can see all Santiago City, bacause, it's one of the highest here and it's located the Virgin's statue too. This statue, it's very old and high, you can take pictures and see al the city from here. Other entertainment of this places, it's the teleferic, and this are as a capsules, that taken you to other places of the hill, and of course, you can see the city and take pictures, while you are on this thing.

the "best OF" transantiago ?

Post # 3: Transantiago, before and after
- What is your opinion of Transantiago?
A) In what way(s) is it better or worse than the pre-Transantiago system?
B) Compare and describe your experience with the new system a) when it started and b) now.
C) What changes would you apply in order to make it better/more effective in the future?

* Mention any other points you think are important.

- Leave a comment on 2 of your classmates' posts.
- Number of words: 200 - 250

HI EVERYBODY!!
today i will tell you about my favorite transport of all in my ocuntry!!
yeeeeees, the famous transantiago !!
and, afortunally, for me, it wasn't a change too heavy.
But. i recognize that before this change, the buses had longer tours than now. This point, was for somebodys good, and for others bad. Because, it could lead you from Maipu to Las Condes, in my case. So in one bus, i could travel to one commune to another, and without the need to change to another transport.
But, it could take you one or two hours, because the tour wasn't direct, and it had a lot of laps.
Now, for example,to the same route, i have to take 3 kinds of transport, two buses, and the subway. And doing this daily , you end the day so tired of up and down buses, take the subway, and again up and down another bus to get home. But, after the time, you begin to accustom.
The good thing, it's that :
- whith this way of transport takes less time to reach somewhere
- The buses are bigger than the previous
- You pay with a Bip target, so the people lose less time to up
- The assaults to the drivers had decreased
- You can take three kinds of differents transport paying only one passage

So this are the goods, things, that i find better than the old system.
I think that, we need to change our attitudes than the same kind of transport. Because people makes that the subway for example, becomes dramatic. With the pushing, impatience, and the angry.
But, if this attitudes change, the transport system could be better. I think that our country needs more cultur and patience.