Day 3 Santiago.
Wake up at 10 am and realize I missed free breakfast. In shock how lazy I feel. Then I spend another hour in bed. After 5 dollar lunch which consist toast and coffee. I journey my way towards museo of arte. Because my dark hair and eye color and Chinese people migrate everywhere. I feel like a local here. More local than chinchilla and rockingham in fact. Only if I could speak Spanish! I can fit in!!! A lady crossed the road from a park with two large dog yarb in Spanish at me when she walk pass me. I had no idea what she was talking about. I smile and nod at her and keeps going. Outside the museo of arte. There is huge statue of two gay looking men. I wish I could understand what the artist trying to express. They look like they in the middle of bondage sex. The museo cost $1.2 or 600 peso to enter. Cheap! I have 400,000 peso on me. It makes me feel like a millionaire. This a modern art museum. At the entrance I discover who stole my shirt. Music, art and love is so much part of people in Santiago. I took a photo of statue with a girl looking in the eyes of a boy. That level of intimacy is everywhere in the parks of Santiago. Couples express their love and affection in a deepest level at most public spaces. It show a level of connection often don't experience or understand by western couple. Their look in the eye and the way they hug is like saying: I love you. Trust me with your life and deepest fear. I will treasure you and hold you like this is the last days of our lives. Let's become one and let one become us. I deeply admire them. Admire how they spend hours (4-5 hours in fact) on the grass. Kissing, cuddling, talking and laughing. It's rude to take photo of couples in the park. So I took photo of statue instant.
Next stop is castillo hidalgo. At free entrance, they gave me free post card. So far I had free dinner, free wine, free breakfast, free entrance to park, free city tour and museo. Now free post card! Feeling the love baby....mhahahaha.
Back to Castillo hidalgo.
Don pedro de valdivia decide to come to santiago and build a house and church on top of small hill in the middle of the city in 1600. He decided on the location because it's so steep and hard to climb. Perfect to defend agains the local Indians. The indians has their name for the place. It's translate into 'sadness', so many died here. Pedro got captured and killed in a most horrible death.(eating gold dust. Then his body was cooked.) at the bottom of the castle, there is a man-made waterfall. Sit here long enough, you can hear the voice of death and water turn into a reddish pink. On the top of the hill, on the top of pedro's castle. There is two street dogs in deep sleep as if the the battle never happened. And all the death and restless soul is now in peace.
Rest of the afternoon. I am going to sit in the park, watch people kissing. Enjoy the sun and read a book call 'all road to austen'.
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