Plaza Peru and Antiques

Last Sunday my wife and I went aimlessly roaming around the streets of El Golf with our kids in tow and we stumbled upon Plaza Perú. It’s a nice patch of green in the heart of the financial district of El Golf but there is nothing impressive about the Plaza itself. It has a car park underneath it (you can’t really tell) which is handy for those that visit the numerous restaurants around there. But what is really worth mentioning is that every Sunday there is an Antiques fair there. You will find stands lined up displaying an assortment of interestingly old relics from a day gone by that someone inherited and then sold off to these antique dealers to earn some quick cash. It a fascinating place to nose around unfortunately this Sunday there wasn’t anyone since they were probably all on vacation with the other half of Santiago. (In February Santiago is empty, which is great!)

Meanwhile we took a panoramic video of the Park so that you have an idea what it is like. We’ll take another video when the antique guys are back in town.



For some more information about this park in the middle of El Golf, check out: Plaza Peru

The following photo was taken only one block from Plaza Peru. I love the design and how it totally contrasts the seriousness of that financial part of the city.

XIII Salón Internacional de Turismo

XIII Salón Internacional de Turismo

Woodward South America visited the 13th International Tourism Fair in Santiago Chile today. There was a wealth of information to do with all the different regions of Chile as well as many other South American countries. We talked to many people and got a lot of information that will be useful for our southamerica.cl site, especially about countries other than Chile which is where we wanted to start working on a bit more.

Today was only open to those in the Tourism Industry but tomorrow it will be open to the general public so you might want to go along to check things out.

This year it is at the Centro de Convenciones Espacio Riesco (Espacio Riesco Convention Center).