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La Serena Slideshow
La Serena
Travel Blogs from La Serena, Chile
Penguins, Sea Lions, and lots and lots of birds
Sunday morning, at 5:45am we arrived in La Serena. Because we did not get any responses from the hostels we wrote to about our early arrival, we had no where to go! We very quickly met a couple who had just gotten engaged from BC in the same ...
Dec 07, 2009
La Serena
Good day, our english speaking friends! We are now sitting on an internet cafe in La Serena,Chile. The weather is nice and we're looking good. La Serena has been a allright city, with it's ups and downs. Our best experience was yesterdays trip to Isla ...
6 weeks to go
Just a little bit excited,six weeks and I am off. Travel pod will be a much easier way of staying in contact.....so instead of sending individual emails,shall be updating my travelpod and putting photos up and keeping in touch. Woop woop,besitos xxx ...
Verkiezingen in Chili - La Serena - en meer...
... stad is wat vervallen en de kustlijn is bezaaid met hoge appartementsgebouwen. Een kleine tegenvaller dus. Daarom hebben we besloten La Serena een dagje vroeger te verlaten. Normaal gezien was onze volgende stop Santiago, de hoofdstad van Chili, maar ...
Off to see an observatory
... rehersals in the afternoon but there was a big crowd watching them too. We hadn't seen any poverty in chile at all but in La serena there seemed to be a very clean well dressed bunch of gypsies begging and they were quite demanding in their efforts ...
Coastal wildlife near La Serena
... is still lively and well kept. Our land destination, the fishing village at Punta de Choros, is about a 1.5 hour drive north of La Serena. We were accompanied on the tour we had joined by a nice mix of people from Belgium, Brazil, Chile, ...
Karaoke night!
... The night was freezing, so we were all happy to climb back into the van to head back to the hotel. Day 42– 16/09/09 LA SERENA Had a wee sleep in today, got up at ten, it’s becoming a bit more regular which means the tour is slowing down and ...
Life on the Road is Never Boring?
La Serena, Chile: July 20 and 21, 2010 Chile’s extraordinary length was clearly evident in the seemingly interminable, almost thirteen-hour bus ride from Antofagasta to La Serena. As usual the bus pulled out of Antofagasta into a barren desert ...
Stray dogs
... as we were driving through (you all know how easily I sleep in cars). We set up to sleep at a couh surfers house in La Serena Chile, named Cristian. He picked us up at the bus terminal and brought us to his home. He had the two cutest kittens ever and I ...
Constellations and star gazing
... ones that we could see may have already died & exploded already but we are years away from finding out. We returned to La Serena with Sebastian & Corinia and they dropped us off at our hostel at around 12.30am. What an amazing day. ...
Constellations and star gazing
... ones that we could see may have already died & exploded already but we are years away from finding out. We returned to La Serena with Sebastian & Corinia and they dropped us off at our hostel at around 12.30am. What an amazing day. ...
Welcome to the Hotel Fiasco
Here we are in La Serena. Itīs one of those Pacific coastal places which is cloudy in the morning and blazing hot in the afternoon. The beach is miles long and wide and the sea not too cold according to Jon (I obviously havenīt tried it ...
Spooned by scary Chilean woman!
Another sleep in and once again waking up refreshed and a clear head, very weird you know! Anyway free day today until at least 4.30 when we needed to jump on another night bus, 15hours this time to a place called San Pedro de Atacama. After packing ...
The Biggest Beach We've Ever Seen!
... lack of nightlife we ended up watching TV all night! 13th September We keep seeing dozens of department stores in La Serena, plus two shopping malls so today we decided to make ourselves look less like tourists and act like locals. Chileans ...
The night that never ended
... beating the 2hrs wait i had for pizza on Zanzibar island on Christmas Day that time..but getting there! Had a long days drive to La Serena on the coast. After spending ages walking up and down the beach looking for beer before we ended up in a bar ...
Down to sea level
Keeping with the tradition of bus travel, we arrived semi-fresh, or as fresh as you can after 17 hours on a bus ready to explore La Serena, the fact that we were back to modern organised coaches helps a lot - we even got into a taxi which was on a meter! ...
The Fourth Region
... day resting while Raymie searched for apartments in Santiago, setup our new computer and went on an hour long adventurous pizza quest. La Serena day 4 Our relaxed homebodiness ran into another day today. We spent the first half of the day researching and ...
Pachamama bus tour!
... right on the coast. It was so beautiful. The views out the window were of the crashing waves. It was so quaint. We arrived in La Serena at about 5pm. We walked to the town from our hostel in search of a supermarket and saw some lovely churches on the way. ...
La Serena & Isla de las Damas
... had another long weekend this past weekend, so the girls...Isabelle (Switzerland), Clementine (France), Agnieszca (Poland) and I went to La Serena, about 7 hours north of Santiago. La Serena is really nice...peaceful (no construction!) and has beautiful ...
La Serena
... meant quite a wide seat that went a long way back so really comfortable and there are movies so it was OK. Arrived in the afternoon in La Serena which is near the pisco area but we had no money so no pisco excursions for us. Sucks to be on a budget. Our ...
the adventures of tin tin in chile
... bus for another 7 hours of joy to get to la serena. oh, and my bag was delayed. thrills-a-minute. after arriving in la serena i found my hostel and collapsed. the next day, senses intact i met my new friends: antje (german girl), david ...
Unintended Consequences and Borrowed Sentiments
... or silently resenting one another about unwanted compromises each has made for the other(s). On the bus ride up to La Serena from Valparaiso, two such (unrelated) pairs were sitting within earshot of where I was sitting. After having a ...
drive to La serena
have been waiting for about one month that nobody follows the messege to have a trip with us driving to north of chile,so we start the trip at 10:30 in the morning 2th ...
Cycling Serena
... absolutely delighted! Liam tried to find it amongst the overgrown flower bushes, but to no avail. We meandered through La Serena; enjoying the picturesque streets, the beautiful old buildings, and some traditionally adorned street performers, we found a ...
Nov 01, 2009
My lips are tingling
... responsibility with any of my North face belongings. In potatoīs words "treat him like a child and give him no responsibilty". La Serena was uninspriring and a bit like Malaga. Wee headed out of the town towards the coast but by this point my ...
Jugdement on the Aviation Department in Peru
... in the Background. Most the water unfortunately for Chile runs eastwards into Patagonia Reagions of Bolivia, Uruquay amd Paraquay. 1,1/2 hours later approaching La Serena when selecting Gear Down on Final 30 , I got only 2 Greens , of sh..... made an Go ...