Vina del Mar & Valparaiso.

It turned out the climate in Antarctica was not as inhospitable as we expected:

Actually, that's Vina del Mar on the central coast of Chile, which we visited on our two day layover in Santiago. This was pretty much a standard resort town; its sister city of Valparaiso was older and more historic, though a bit run down.

Now we're snoozing at Santiago airport waiting for our 2AM red-eye down to Punta Arenas.

That is all.