My little holidays of September.

In Chile we celebrate the “national holiday” of different ways. I and my family don’t like the typical celebrations and we hate the chauvinism prevailing in this days, we don’t like the “Parada Militar”, that is a old tradition of national army here. The national holidays happened the last week.

As we don’t like the ambient in Chile and overcoat in Santiago (the capital city) we usually travel in this week, so we have gone to visit parents in Córdoba in past years for example, obvious we take advantaged the holidays of  this week.

These year we went to Cherquenco, because a friend of our family has a beautiful plot of land,  and there is a big house. Cherquenco is in the Cordillera de los Andes, near to Vilcún and is near too to the Volcán Llaima. All this places are in “La Araucanía”, it’s a very, very beautiful region of Chile.

In this holidays we didn’t the traditional things like go to “fondas” or to raise kite, mainly we stayed in the house and eating a lot of food like “empanadas de pino”, “choripanes” and “Mote con huesillo”, but we didn’t it with chauvinist feelings.

The most cool thing was when began to snow, and we went to the park “Los Paraguas” for to see the “araucarias” snowfall.

This years the national holidays were a very good experience for me, I enjoyed that and I hope to repeat it.