Starting the morning off early, we boarded the bus to Santiago to visit the stock exchange of Bolsa De Comercio Santiago and to tour the giant city. Arriving to Santiago, I quickly realized that this city was very different from Viña del Mar. The city looked more like New York City. It had larger skyscrapers, busy streets, and more familiar cars and buses. Clearly, the lifestyles of Chile vary with distance from Santiago.
At the Bolsa, we were given a brief presentation on the history and the workings of the stock exchange. Unlike the New York stock exchange, where the trading floor is still loud and busy with traders, this trading floor is usually relatively empty and quite. This is because in Chile most of the trading is done on an online system now. Unfortunately, during our visit the trading floor was not open for us to visit and tour.
After the visit to the Bolsa, we toured the city of Santiago itself. We stopped at one of the first and one of the largest Churches to be built in the city, a history museum, and other sites throughout the city. While we were walking around the city, a group of students wanted to take pictures with us (I guess we stood out). This eventually led to more and more students wanting to take pictures with our group. Eventually we were surrounded by a large crowd of students taking pictures of us. I was surprised to see that there was a much larger diversity among the people in Santiago. This is certainly because it is such a large city. I saw this first hand when our tour bus took us up a hill overlooking the city. The city seemed to endlessly stretch out in all directions. A perfect site to end the day on!
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