Travel Destination Bahia Inglesa (English Bay)

Nov 10 – After we made it to Santiago on November 7th, we stayed one night at an apartment downtown that we found on Hotwire. We had to vacate our rental by noon on the 8th. We were not catching our next bus until 9:30 that night so we were in for a long day of wandering around. We were able to check our luggage at the bus mall for $1000clp a piece. Which is around $2cad. Over 8 hours in a bus mall is a really long time. Even though it was a bit more than a bus mall. It had a market outside, many stores, and a food court. We spent some time playing cards in the food court to kill time. Finally we caught our bus and headed out to Caldera (13 hour bus ride). The bus was actually pretty comfortable and we slept almost the entire time. We arrived into Caldera at 10:30 am on the 9th. We found a cab and met the lady that owns the Airbnb at the accommodation. We found out that our Airbnb rental was not up to par to say the least. It was not close to Bahia Inglesa and it was not close to Caldera city centre. Also, it had no hot water and has what seems like a million dogs around it at night……barking everywhere! One week here is going to be challenging, then we see the loop hole. We are allowed to shorten our stay on Airbnb!!!!! The lady that owns the Airbnb was very pleasant and accommodating even though there was a language barrier, the Airbnb site translates so it was easy to communicate that way. We have booked our place in Bahia Inglesa for the next five nights starting Sunday, Nov 11th. Our next accommodation does not have wifi and Renelle’s Chilean SIM card has run out of data. We may stay one night in a hotel on the 16th to get up to speed and book our next place.

The last two days we have cabbed to the beach. It was only around 20-21 degrees but we all have signs of sun on our faces, necks and shoulders. We will be out of touch for the next 5 days because we will playing on the beach and hopefully the pool at our next stay is actually in operation. – Shawn and Renelle