Amazing Mountains! (4/21)

I know some have heard all this before, but I just can't help it. The mountains here are so amazing. I don't know how to describe them and pictures just don't do them justice. They are sooo big. They loom over everything. There is no getting lost here, you just have to look around and find the mountains. All directions can be told in relation to the mountains. But people here don't seem to notice them. Some days I am struck, amazed, and even immobilized by the beauty, detail, and color, yet everyone else seems oblivious. The mountains change so much throughout the day. They are very complex combinations of brown, green, and yellow. But In the morning they look bluish. And in the afternoon and toward evening they turn orange, red, maroon, and purple. they never seem to look like they did the day before. They are my soap, and I am hooked.

Deb and I took a ride on the teleferico (cable cars up a mountain) at Cerro San Cristobal. This provided an excellent view of the Santiago valley. This shot shows how the mountains surround the city.