Hostal de Colon de La Serena
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Starry starry night!
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!). < …
Painful journey!!!
Ouch ouch ouch!!! Wake up at 6am with all my clothes still, classy lad me you know! You ll be glad to know that just because I'm in South America, nothing really ever changes!! Head down to force abit of breakfast and then jump on a mini bus to the coach station.
Once on the coach my 'tactical' night out turns out not to work as i end up …
The Beach!
Wednesday morning we had to be up at 6:15 to get to the bus depot...ouch! We then caught a 7hr bus headed to La Serena. There was some great scenary on the way. Coast on one side and mountains on the other. As Chile is a pretty narrow country you are pretty much near one or the other.
We arrived in La Serena and checked in at the hostel. …
La Serena
Once again, we were deceived by the travel guide! After leaving Arica, we planned to make a quick stop in a little beach town known as Iquique. We stepped off the bus and were there long enough to decide that it was not the "gem" the book had portrayed it to be. Before we knew it we were back on the bus for an 18 hour ride to La Serena, five hours …
Los Vilos and La Serena
... t popular with us. The next day we went to alcie valley which is a wine growing valley surrounded by the Andes and we went to a small remote town, we had a walk around the main square and then got something to eat from the supermarket. We then drove and saw a dam and then had a picnic which was delicious, dad came up with a game to try and make your wife go crazy he thought it was brilliant but me and mum ...