The Japanese garden here in in BOS areas is closed because as you can see this is right next to the Japanese garden about about a week and a half ago they had a major storm with gusts up to 80 mes per hour there was videos of the local airport which is
Right near here of like 737 size planes there in the uh by the terminal being uh crashing into to each other looking across you know as the wind was blowing them literally moving them That’s How Strong the winds were and we look across the park here from the Japanese garden we still
See piles of tree looms off these giant trees broken limbs uprooted trees so I came thousands of miles to see the world famous Japanese gardens in bonus hares and they’re not going to be open until another week or so and here it is um a
Few days early and so I’m trying to get some pictures uh with this my um camera here on an extension so I can reach out over the top of some of the um Hedges here and get a peek inside the the gardens where the Japanese uh where the workers are
Repairing in the Japanese garden here’s some uprooted some down lines broken poles utility poles upro of trees literally going into the Japanese garden and a hedge around it so anyway a little disappointing but it is what it is damaged trees all over this city like major major damage that probably haven’t
Seen in 50 or 100 years so here’s another right next to Japanese Garden a tree that was uprooted so here’s more damage this is at the front entrance of the uh Japanese Garden in bosies and we can see damage again of Limbs falling broken tree limbs from these trees that obviously
Fell and bent this rod iron fence here’s the uh here’s the construction work repair work going on and there’s the bridge the bridge right there Japanese garden Come You can see the pine trees you see the pine trees a lot of sheared stuff yeah yeah so a lot of sheered trees everything sheer the P the pine trees are not real well pruned as you can see it’s kind of sad I like to get in here
And help them out a little bit um but that’s just my aesthetic printer inside of me speaking so this Japanese garden could look a lot better glad they have one blessings to them for that but it’s some really nice rocks beautiful rocks and water features fountains and can’t really see too much
From here but see if we can get some more lots of piles of papers so I’m here’s some nice pine trees to walk around to the other side where they have more of the pine trees I’m looking through a chain link fence here and seeing some really a whole
Little miniature Forest of pine trees more pruned in the kind of Quai sukashi Cloud Style but this is this is actually really very nice here I’m just kind of looking a little Glimpse and a glimpse of this Garden you know looking from the outside
In trying to get a feel for it a very beautiful and pleasant respit in the middle of a very large bustling kind of a noisy City in Horus areas so So we’re walking around the perimeter of the Japanese garden here in Santiago Chile uh so it’s closed on Mondays and we’re flying out of here tonight so the perimeter is open but the main Japanese garden is closed on Monday so missed out on the Japanese Gardens of uh beros Ares Argentina because of
The storm the wind storm that they had a couple weeks before we got there and it caused a lot of damage so the garden was being repaired and wouldn’t open for another week after we left BOS hares and we get to Chile Santiago Chile and they
Happen to be closed on Mondays they will open again tomorrow on Tuesday but we will be back uh we’ll be in in transit back to Portland Oregon tomorrow or tonight actually starting tonight so oh bummer that’s the way it is but we were
Here as close as we could to it so the S Lucia Japanese garden is located on uh the uh s Lucia Hill or Santa Lucia Hill uh which is also a park it’s the main Hill in downtown Santiago there’s it was a fortress a Spanish Fortress back in the
1500s and so uh while we were looking for the Japanese garden there we thought we’d climb up on the hill and get a view of some Santiago looking toward the Andes mountains and just kind of pan around uh from the top of this very old fortress what’s left of it uh I did
Learn while we were there that there’s also another Japanese Garden in uh there’s the Andes there uh Japanese Garden in Santiago the San Christal Japanese garden which is located on another Hill which is kind of on the little bit in the outskirts of the downtown area and and it’s was a little
Bit away from our hotel and we didn’t have time to go over there and besides it was closed on Monday also the day that we were in Santiago and that evening we were leaving uh the the city for for our flight home so anyway that is a much nicer Japanese garden there
Are some nice YouTube videos that that highlight that Japanese garden it’s much more um you know wellmaintained compared to what we were able to see uh of the Japanese Garden on San Lucia Hill so anyway here is Santiago the main city in Chile so right in the background that
Hill right in the middle there with the antennas on top that is s Christal Hill it’s probably a couple miles away and that’s where the other Japanese garden is located there’s the top of the castle right up there climbed from way down there and there’s Cannons all around
Early 19th century cannons we I climbed up these very steep stairs and took the picture from that spot up here looks out over the city looking East