La Feria

Today I went to a feria in Valparaiso! (an open air market) This particular one is open on the weekends year round, and sells all types of odds and ends...seriously any random thing that you could think of, you have a good chance of finding it!! Today I bought these handmade earrings for 500pesos ($1 USD), they are made of feathers and copper (Chile's #1 natural resource) I also found this shirt for 2.000 ($4USD)  I can't wait for my family to visit me so I can bring them to the markets, I think my dad would prefer going to the food ferias though! haha

Beautiful!

Sopapillas, typical Chilean food!

Cooking sopapillas

finished product.

My new Mapuche friends (the indigenous people of Chile)

waterfalls in Pucon, Chile (12 hours south of me)

 Ziplining in Argentina

About to go repeling down a mountain in Argentina

Feeding a monkey at the Mendoza Zoo--the biggest zoo in south america, takes about 3 hours to walk around the whole thing.  It's wrapped around the Andes Mountains, so a lot of the animals weren't even in cages!

Riding through the Andes Mountains--Mendoza, Argentina

Waterfalls in Pucon, Chile

I was there!! LOLLAPALOOZA in Santiago, Chile!! My favorite bands were Bassnecter (pictured), Foster the People, MGMT, Skrillex, Foo Fighters, Crystal Method, Pretty Lights, and Calvin Harris!!