Valparaiso is often compared to San Francisco because of its many hills. When we arrived there, it was very foggy and definitely reminded us of SF. Just like SF, the sun came out mid day and then it was lovely.
The first thing we did was take an ascensor or funicular up one of the hills.
There are a dozen or so of them around the city and most are very old and rickety.
We could see through the floor boards on ours in a few places.
We walked up and down and around a couple of the hills. It was very colorful.
The buildings are painted in many colors and there are murals everywhere.
An art nouveau villa - it used to be owned by a financier but is now a museum.
He even built his own funicular to take him down the hill to his office!
Vina del Mar is the neighboring resort city with lots of beaches and this famous flower clock.
We went through this museum with artifacts from Easter Island including this maoi.
This palace in a nearby park now holds a museum,
but it was heavily damaged in the 2010 earthquake.
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