{"id":691,"date":"2007-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/chile-our-first-acquaintance\/"},"modified":"2009-05-23T23:08:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T22:08:57","slug":"chile-our-first-acquaintance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/chile-our-first-acquaintance\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile &#8211; our first acquaintance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/photos\/2007\/2007_ecuador\/cuenca\/chile\/IMG_6236.JPG\" title=\"Chilean by heart\" class=\"shutterset_\"><img src=\"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/photos\/2007\/2007_ecuador\/cuenca\/chile\/cache\/IMG_6236.JPG-nggid042083-ngg0dyn-200x0x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.JPG\" alt=\"Chilean by heart\" title=\"Chilean by heart\" \/><\/a>\t\n\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Well, we are not yet in Chile \ud83d\ude42 Our Chilean friend Sofia invited us to celebrate her country&#8217;s independance day together. Chile became free on the 18th of September, 1810. For this occasion, the honour council of this country in Cuenca invited local Chileans and their friends to a small fiesta.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/photos\/2007\/2007_ecuador\/cuenca\/chile\/IMG_6217.JPG\" title=\"delicious meal: potatoes, onion-tomatoe salad, bread\" class=\"shutterset_\"><img src=\"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/photos\/2007\/2007_ecuador\/cuenca\/chile\/cache\/IMG_6217.JPG-nggid042074-ngg0dyn-200x0x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.JPG\" alt=\"delicious meal: potatoes, onion-tomatoe salad, bread\" title=\"delicious meal: potatoes, onion-tomatoe salad, bread\" \/><\/a>\t\n\n<p><\/div>\n<p>We bought a ticket for $7 which included 2 empanadas (traditional snack here and in Central America &#8211; kind of pastry usually filled with meat) and almuerzo, which means lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Everything was happening in Gualaceo village, in the house of one of the Chilean expatriates. He lives here alone for 10 years already. His parents are actually from Israel, so he is not very total Chilean though \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 110px;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/photos\/2007\/2007_ecuador\/cuenca\/chile\/IMG_6213.JPG\" title=\"Chile independence day celebrated in a private persons garden in Gualaceo\" class=\"shutterset_\"><img src=\"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/photos\/2007\/2007_ecuador\/cuenca\/chile\/cache\/IMG_6213.JPG-nggid042073-ngg0dyn-100x0x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.JPG\" alt=\"Chile independence day celebrated in a private persons garden in Gualaceo\" title=\"Chile independence day celebrated in a private persons garden in Gualaceo\" \/><\/a>\t\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chile independence day celebrated in a private persons garden in Gualaceo<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p>We got opportunity to listen life music from Chile as there were two small bands playing traditional songs. Really beautiful! Actually nobody cared about tickets. There was plenty of food. Unfortunately for us, almost everything had meat. Instead of big piece of meat for a lunch we grabbed lots of potatoes (in Chile they eat lots of them) and traditional tomato-onion salad. A lot of onion. Sofia explained how they are made so tasty. Onions are simply put into salty water for about 1 hour before mixing it into the salad. We enjoyed this mix very much.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/photos\/2007\/2007_ecuador\/cuenca\/chile\/IMG_6219.JPG\" title=\"typical Chilean dances\" class=\"shutterset_\"><img src=\"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/photos\/2007\/2007_ecuador\/cuenca\/chile\/cache\/IMG_6219.JPG-nggid042075-ngg0dyn-100x0x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.JPG\" alt=\"typical Chilean dances\" title=\"typical Chilean dances\" \/><\/a>\t\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/photos\/2007\/2007_ecuador\/cuenca\/chile\/IMG_6223.JPG\" title=\" \" class=\"shutterset_\"><img src=\"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/photos\/2007\/2007_ecuador\/cuenca\/chile\/cache\/IMG_6223.JPG-nggid042077-ngg0dyn-100x0x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_6223\" title=\"IMG_6223\" \/><\/a>\t\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/photos\/2007\/2007_ecuador\/cuenca\/chile\/IMG_6247.JPG\" title=\" \" class=\"shutterset_\"><img src=\"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/photos\/2007\/2007_ecuador\/cuenca\/chile\/cache\/IMG_6247.JPG-nggid042081-ngg0dyn-100x0x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_6247\" title=\"IMG_6247\" \/><\/a>\t\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/photos\/2007\/2007_ecuador\/cuenca\/chile\/IMG_6226.JPG\" title=\"mobile phone paparazi\" class=\"shutterset_\"><img src=\"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/photos\/2007\/2007_ecuador\/cuenca\/chile\/cache\/IMG_6226.JPG-nggid042082-ngg0dyn-100x0x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.JPG\" alt=\"mobile phone paparazi\" title=\"mobile phone paparazi\" \/><\/a>\t\n\n<p><\/div>\n<p>After meat-dish followed kind of a dessert. A traditional Chilean drink. We don&#8217;t know its name, sorry \ud83d\ude42 It contained syrup of apricots, soaked (maybe boiled) groats and the apricot itself. Sweet \ud83d\ude42 and that was it, we left having sweet dreams about Chile. We are looking forward to visit this country sometime next year. Exciting&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/photos\/2007\/2007_ecuador\/cuenca\/chile\/IMG_6255.JPG\" title=\"a nice dessert - wheat soaked in juice\" class=\"shutterset_\"><img src=\"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/photos\/2007\/2007_ecuador\/cuenca\/chile\/cache\/IMG_6255.JPG-nggid042084-ngg0dyn-200x0x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.JPG\" alt=\"a nice dessert - wheat soaked in juice\" title=\"a nice dessert - wheat soaked in juice\" \/><\/a>\t\n\n<p><\/div>\n<p>Augustas &amp; Katja<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we are not yet in Chile \ud83d\ude42 Our Chilean friend Sofia invited us to celebrate her country&#8217;s independance day together. Chile became free on the 18th of September, 1810. For this occasion, the honour council of this country in Cuenca invited local Chileans and their friends to a small fiesta. We bought a ticket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chile","category-ecuador"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followtheroad.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}