Santiago de Chile
Santiago is the capital of Chile and it's the most modern city that I have been during my entire trip. Many other countries in South America are definitely categorized as 3rd world, but in Chile, you definitely feel it's different - very modern metro fleet, clean city, great architecture (earthquake proof) and metro in general.
All this come at a cost - Chile has been the most expensive country out of my trip. Chile is not cheap. A lot of prices are similar to prices in the US and money goes by very fast.
I was there in the middle of the winter and it was extremely cold !! At nights it got down to 2 or 3 degrees celcius on some nights.
Whilst all its modernity and all 1st world facilities, I just felt that I was in any other big city. I did not feel a different identity for the city as such which distinguished it from others as such, but it's a nice city in general with all the big city amenities and stuff to do.
