Day 9 - Monday

Monday we visited the city of Santiago. Santiago is the largest city in Chile and is home to around 6 million people. This is nearly half the population of Chile. The city is huge! At first in Santiago we went and visited the Santiago Stock Exchange. This was the last company visit. It was interesting to visit all the companies we did and see how they operate differently than in the US. Also while in Santiago we visited el Plaza de Armas. The plaza was at one point the center of the city. It was really pretty. After visiting the plaza we went to lunch at a seafood restaurant. It was very interesting. Some of the shellfish was good, some (like oysters) were disgusting! It was cool to try a bunch of different seafood native to Chile. From lunch we went to the top of one of the hills in the city. From the top of the hill we could see the entire city (massive!) and we could see the Andes - unreal! It was gorgeous on the top of the hill. I could have stayed there and looked out at the city for hours!