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Show I Publisher tours South America the best food in S.A. Will write more about B.A. soon. Editor's note So interesting are the accounts of the tour being taken by Harrison Con-over, Con-over, publisher of the Spring-ville Spring-ville Herald and his wife Margaret, Mar-garet, to the countries of South America, that we are publishing publish-ing parts of their letters each week. by Harrison Conover, publisher Our last day in Peru was wonderful. Carlos drove us to a resort town, Chosica, about 40 miles from Lima in the foothills foot-hills of the Andes where we had lunch at a large sprawling resort hotel where a lot of, Peruvians go for vacation. We were accompanied by a former ambassador to the U.S. and his wife. That evening we were out to Carlos' home with his wife and two lovely daughters, Helen Hel-en and Maria. A trip that night to Chinatown and the next morning Carlos saw us off on the plane to Chile. Santiago is a city of two million people set in a large valley that would remind you of many of our valleys in the West. We stayed three days in Santiago at the Hotel Crillon, an old fashioned hotel that made us feel like we were back in the gay nineties. There were many interesting things to do and see. We visited the two parks that are on high hills that rise up in the middle mid-dle of the city. We went to some movies and to a regular old fashioned vaudeville (all in Spanish) but pretty girls. The stores and shops were very in- teresting and the sidewalks crowded with people. Saturday we did a little detective work and found where a branch of the Church met and Sunday morning we went to Sunday School all in Spanish. There we met three elders who seemed seem-ed glad to meet someone from home. The flight from Santiago to Buenos Aires, Argentina, up over the Andes was really spectacular. Impressive snow and glacier covered peaks and sunset tinted cloud effects were something to be remembered. The ride into Buenos from the air port takes over an hour. Buenos Aires is a city of six million people and when our bus got down town at 10:30 p.m. all six million of them were out walking up and down the main streets. Auto traffic traf-fic is cut off. The people in B.A. like to do this all dressed up. We stayed at the Hotel California. Cal-ifornia. They treated us like a million; had a dining room with |
