Travelling around Santiago

Well everyone knows that travelling around Santiago can be difficult, especially for someone that has not lived the experience of moving around the city in the public transport, mainly the Santiago subway.

When I am talking about some people that aren’t used to, I am talking about me. I lived my whole life in Antofagasta so I wasn’t used to use the subway. That made my firsts travels kind of a nightmare because all the different stories that your friends tell you. I remember one story in particular… when my dad finds out that I wasn’t very confident moving around Santiago by myself he take me to the center of Santiago in his car and then he left me in the subway, while he was leaving he told me that I would have to go back home by my one. At that moment I panic, I did not know where I was and how could be able to go back home.

When I realized that my dad would not come back I went to the subway and ask for directions to different people, then I get into the subway praying that I was going to the right place. The people were very nice (they help me a lot) and the atmosphere was quite relaxed, not like the subway at 7am. Finally, I get home, a little traumatize but safe, since that day I can travel around Santiago without troubles.