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Popular Local Customs | Other Local Customs Tips | All Tips (33) Pisco sour is the national drink of Chile.
I first tasted it in a restaurant in Puerto Montt further south in Chile and I was hooked straight away.
It's a cocktail made from pisco (a local brandy), lemon, egg whites, and bitters. The primary taste is of lemons and it's extremely refreshing. I noted most people drinking it as an aperitif but I'd recommend it any time:-) Leave a Comment
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In Chile in general (not just Santiago), it is nice to give a 10% tip in restaurants and bars, but otherwise there are basically two occasions when you should definetly tip:
1) to the "maletero" on most bus companies (about 100-200 pesos). Don't be surprised if they abruptly ask you for a tip - this is normal. (Tip in Spanish is "propina").
2) to the grocery bagger, around 100-200 pesos for smaller amounts of groceries, but perhaps up to 500 pesos if you have a lot.
This is important to know, because oftentimes people in these two positions are actually not even being paid, that is, they are depending on your tip for their wages. Leave a Comment
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From many houses there is not more than just the lovely facade left over and they seem to wait for better times and some money to be integrated into a new building-complex with a modern interior and this lovely, traditional facade of the end of the 19th century. At the moment these houses look like the ones in Potemkin, the one on my pictures is just about 200 meters from Hotel Majestic. Leave a Comment
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It is a summer drink tipical of chielean, delicious dry peach that cook and prepare with wheat mote and adds ice to and it is taken
Es una bebida de verano tipica de los chilenos, deliciosos duraznos secos que se cocinan y se prepara con trigo mote y se le agrega hielo y se toma Leave a Comment
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St. Patrick is the Patron Saint of Ireland and it's said that he banished the snakes from the country (we don't have any snakes at all in Ireland!).
As an Irish Cailin (colleen/girl) you cn imagine my surprise to arrive at the Santiago Sheraton and find signs for St. Patrick's Day all over the place. Indeed, the hotel was devoting a whole week to the celebrations (which is more than we do here) and offering free drinks to anyone named Patricio.
On enquiry I found out that Chile has very strong connections with Ireland and it was an Irish man by the name of O'Higgins who founded the Chilean Navy.
Here's a pic of Mum posing in the lobby of the hotel beside a giant shamrock. Leave a Comment
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Such lovely traditional Telefon-boths are still to be found at many cities in Chile, although the newer ones are made in a different design. Leave a Comment
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Chileans eat at least four times per day...
at morning is a very light breakfast (continental breakfast)... at noon (around 2pm) they eat lunch...at 5pm they do "once" (tea and cookies)and ´till 9-11 pm they eat dinner. Leave a Comment
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Changing of the guards at the Moneda Palace.
A great militairy band plays some modern music.
Every 48 hours at 10:00 am there is a changing of the guards in front of the Moneda Palace. Leave a Comment
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Guia de Cines.(Santiago-Chile)/Cinema- Guide.(Santiago-Chile).
Página Web/Web Page :GUIA DE CINE Leave a Comment
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Museo Arqueológico San Miguel de Azapa.(Arica I región-Chile).Museum.Página Web/Web Page : MUSEO SAN MIGUEL DE AZAPA
Foto/Photo:Gorros de cuatro puntas. Leave a Comment
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