Apart Hotel Mar Serena La Serena
Avenida Del Mar 4900 La Serena, Chile
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What we really needed
... and fully prepared with skittles and chocolate in hand! The full bus to San Pedro de Atacama turned out to be a blessing in disguise; what we really needed was a few days in the sun and by the ocean to recharge. Lindsey's Memorable Moment - Proudly ordering, in semi perfect Spanish "dos cafe lattes para llevar, por favor" (two lattes to go, please). Kristen's Memorable Moment - Stargazing at the observatory... I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid so this was definitely a ...
Beside the Sea
... disappointed and let down by the films. Good example – Harry Potter – They just do not do the books justice. Anyway). It was quite well made and a very sad story of a girl who was repeatedly raped by her father and on 2 occassions fathers 2 children. Her mother knew and did nothing but blamed the girl for “stealing her man”. She would physically and mentally abuse the girl too. It was very sad. Obviously it had a happy ...
Day 62 – Humidity at last
... on a McD’s chocolate sundae when we saw the line at the more local ice cream store.
To complete our culture shock day, we went for sushi for dinner on the way back. Yes, we are still in Chile. In fact, there’s no tuna, eel, snapper or clam on the menu; nor is there green tea. The sushi here is only made from local ingredients of salmon, crab stick, shrimp, avocado and cream cheese. It was the freshest shrimp I’ve ever had and a very ...
Painful journey!!!
... rest bite been one stop half way through!
Anyway made to La Serna with a very excited tour guide, well actually he's always excited however more so than usual due to the fact that he lived here for several years when he was a bit younger. Thus meaning that he had come home for the first time in a little while!
La Serena is quite a nice place, abit bigger than i was expecting but lots of little market stalls with local traders ...
Elqui Valley
... Pisco Sour hoort net zo hard bij Peru en Chile als Machu Picchu en Patagonie. Al menig glas is reeds gepasseerd, and it wont be the last!
Met Stefaan de Belg, aka the Master of Disaster, en Louisa van Australie huren we een auto om op ons eigen de buurt te verkennen. Na San Pedro zijn we de georganiseerde tours allemaal een beetje beu... We installeren ons in Pisco Elqui, een dorp ooit gekend als Las Gredas ...

