Elqui Valley La Serena

Hey Again!

Sorry for the second blog straight away but this will only be short. La Serena is a beautiful little town but there is not really much to do. It just breaks up what would be an extremely long journey from Valparaiso to San Pedro de Atacama. I had a 7 hour journey to La Serena and I leave this afternoon on a 17 hour bus journey …

Thursday 26.04




This is going to be a long long day. I arrive at 6:00 in La Serena, 1.5 hours before sunrise. I eat breakfast and go see the sunrise on the beach. After that, I cancel again my bus ticket to San Pedro de Atacama at 16:00 because I want to see the Valle del Elqui. I then go to the "mundo caballo" at the …

Rien de mieux que quelques heures de bus pour mesurer l'étendue du Chili! La saison des pluies faisant rage en Bolivie, je me dis que ce serait quand meme dommage de ne pas profiter un peu du soleil au bord de la mer! Je fait d'abord étape au parc national Pan de Azucar, où le climat serait soit disant méditerranéen... pour moi c'est encore du dé …

White rabbits everyone! If you don't know, if you say white rabbits as your first words on the first of the month its meant to mean good luck for the test of it! I as usual forgot this and to be honest only realized it had hit October tomorrow (I'm typing this on the 2nd on word, sat on a 15 hour coach ride by the way! confusing i realise!). < …

La Serena lays at the entry of the Elqui Valley, known for the star observatries and the pisco vineyards and distelleries. Star observatries are located here because weather is always (except for the day we went to one) very clear and without clouds. We ...

... kilometers on it. In any case, we made sure to get Marie’s seat belt to fasten. The drive took us an hour down the Elqui Valley to the little town of Vicuna. The valley itself is amazing and full of olive trees and vineyards. We wish we had an ...

... person driving about 40kms on a windy road by the dam that gives La Serena its water and all the wineries in the Pico Elqui valley their lifeblood. The bus driver was cursing for 20 kms... Mujer conduisa... etc... Chile is one of the best places in ...

Easter Friday 25 March ---------------------- We flew to La Serena & collected a rental car at the airport. We explored Vicuna briefly & managed there to book a trip to an observatory for the Easter Monday night (Chile has the world´s ...

... ! Went to the beach a few times which was nothing particularly special. I also went inland a bit up the river Elqui valley to the Pisco (alcoholic spirit) producing region of the country. Really pretty scenery but absolutely nothing to do so ...

... for gold, they have little choice but to check it out. Loading up on their trusty steeds (a bus) they head into the fabled Elqui valley for a couple of nights. The first stop is the town of Vicuna, the base of Mamalluca observatory, and a town which ...

Spent a few days in the lovely town of La Serena and went on a trip up the Elqui Valley, its very, very pretty and the excursion to the Observatory (whilst very popular) was definitely worth it, the stars are soooo ...

... - it's filled with fruit plantations and vineyards. The grapes aren't just turned into wine though, the Elqui valley is the main pisco distilling area in Chile. Pisco is a strong, distilled alcohol that is sometimes mixed with fruit to make a pisco ...

... . We spent yesterday (Saturday 18th) with a private guide, Daniel Russ, in his little 4X4. He took us east, through the Elqui valley and up to the border with Argentina at >4500 metres (>15000feet). The road was paved for the first 100km, but then ...

... sea lions and a sea otter. All in all it was a great day but we were pretty shattered. Tomorrow we are visiting the Elqui Valley to do a bit of horse riding and visit some fruit plantations, maybe the pisco brewery if we can face going near the ...