Santiago - Day 1 This was the first day spent in Santiago. After taking some shots from the roof of my hotel, Karl and I met up with Wasyl Drosdowsky and Harvey Stern from the Bureau of Meteorology, who were both staying at out hotel, and went to a couple of museums. Afterwards Karl, Harvey and I spent the rest of the afternoon scaling Cerro San Cristobal.
	April 02 This is the view from the roof of the hotel Tupahue I stayed at for the conference. It is located in downtown Santiago, and this is a view looking to the east towards the Andes, with some cirrus illuminated by the rising sun.
	April 02 This is the view looking to the southeast at Cerro Santa Lucia, which is the well vegetated hill, which stands about 100ft above the rest of the city. The conference took place on the other side of the hill, which was about a 15 minutes walk from the hotel.
	April 02 This is a nice building which was passed everyday on the way to the conference.
	April 02 The general skyline of Santiago.
	April 02 This is a view looking to the northwest at one of the many peaks around and within Santiago.
	April 02 From the hotel roof, this view looks to the west towards Plaza de Armas. Catedral Metropolitana can be seen in the foreground on the lower right.
	April 02 And here is the Plaza de Armas, which is the city's historical centre. On the far right is again Catedral Metropolitana.
	April 02 The view of Cerro San Cristobal, a 869m above MSL peak, located about 20 minutes walk from the hotel. This was taken whilst on the way to it with Karl and Harvey.
	April 02 A view from the climb to the top of Cerro San Cristobal. Note the amount of smog for a Sunday.
	April 02 Another view of Santiago from a bit higher up.
	April 02 After about half an hours walk, we took a bit of a break as we overlooked this spectacular view.
	April 02
	April 02 And this is what we get at the top of Cerro San Cristobal after about an hours walk. Karl and Harvey are seated closer to the bottom of the photo, with Karl on the left, Harvey on the right.
	April 02 A view of the peak shown in the first photo in this series.
	April 02 Another spectacular view of Santiago from the top looking to the south.
	April 02 Looking to the east reveals the ominous looking Andes.
	April 02 This shot was taken by Karl of a square outside an art gallery where people where practising their arts/skills in juggling. The guy wearing the blue/green shirt to the right of the photo facing to the left looking up, under the brown leafed tree is currently juggling 7 balls!

Santiago - Day 4 This was our conference trip to the Andes and to a winery. It was OK but nothing really special, a sentiment echoed by a few others from the conference.
	April 05 About an hours bus ride out of Santiago, we came to this place. Here are some peaks to the south.
	April 05 At the base of the peaks was a green river.
	April 05 Some nice stratification in the rocks.
	April 05 Looking to the north shows some more peaks.
	April 05 And here is a closeup.
	April 05 Here are the lads that tackled the Andes in the weekend after the conference. This was taken from the winery. From left to right we have Adrian Matthews from the UK, David Noone from the Melbourne University and Karl Braganza from Monash University. Unfortunately, this photo didn't come out as planned as in the background were some peaks which were softly lit by the setting sun.
	April 05 And here is the raw material at the winery at sunset.

Santiago - Day 8 Here I went for a walk around Santiago to check out some sights for myself.
	April 11 This is the lagoon at the huge Parque Quinta Normal located on the western side of Santiago.
	April 11 This is Estacion Mapocho, which is not the city's foremost cultural centre.
	April 11 This is Templo de Santo Domingo which is a massive stone church built in 1808.
	April 11 At Plaza de Armas, this is the front on view of Catedral Metropolitana which was built in 1745.
	April 11 Some contrasting architecture with Catedral Metropolitana and its reflection in a glass building.
	April 11 View of Congreso Nacional which was built in 1876. This is actually the Foreign Ministry.
	April 11 This is the Tribunales de Justicia, ie law courts.
	April 11 Here is Palacio de la Moneda, the construction of whch began in 1788 and completed in 1805. In the mid 19th century, this became the residence of Chilean presidents, but is not anymore.
	April 11 This is Iglesia de San Francisco which is just up the street from the Residencial Londes which is where we stayed in the last week in Santiago.

Santiago - Day 10 This was the last day in Santiago where rain fell from morning until about 5pm. However, I still had a few things I wanted to see, and so set out in the wet. The main attraction I saw was Cerro Santa Lucia which I climbed, and not surprisingly, there was no one else around. An interesting thing was when going into shops, they put sawdust at the entrances. This results in you tracking sawdust all throughout the place, but prevents you slipping.
	April 13 This is the eastern entrance I took up Cerro Santa Lucia. The rain was basically constant throughout falling at a rate of about 2-10mm/hr.
	April 13 I walked around to the southern side which is the actual entrance. Here is a fountain in the foreground.
	April 13 Same scene from a slightly different angle.
	April 13 Climbing a flight of stairs produced this view of the same scene as above.
	April 13 The view of the city from a higher part of Cerro Santa Lucia. On this day, the rain rather than the smog limits the view.
	April 13 Some more steps to climb to make it to the top. Unfortunately, the view from the top wasn't spectacular due to the persistant rain. The top is at least 100ft above the city.
	April 13 Another statue located about halfway down.
	April 13