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Beach og tsunami
Etter Valparaiso og Viña del Mar busser vi nordover langs kysten av Chile, etter åtte timer ankommer vi kystlandsbyen La Serena. Dette blir siste stopp i lavlandet og ved havet på en god stund. Derfor skal dette nytes!
Dette er Chiles nest eldste by, ble grunnlagt i 1540. Byen har klart å bevare deler av sin historiske arkitektur, og …
Los Vilos and La Serena
The flight to Chile was the best flight we have had on the trip, looking out the window you saw the snow-capped Andes and the sandy Atacama desert which looked absolutely stunning. Once we arrived we got in our car that we rented and drove off to Los Villos, when we arrived it was pitch black and the town didn't look too nice but we thought that was just due to the fact that it was night. We stopped and rested ...
La Serena
La Serena broke up our travel to San Pedro de Atacama nicely, taking 7 hours off a 24 hour bus ride. The hostel we stayed in was a family home, now converted to sleep about 24 people. In our dorm we met Darryn, an ex South African who now calls New Zealand home and Sarah who is from Melbourne. Sarah ended up traveling all the way to Uyuni, Bolivia with us.
The first day we went to Equi ...
What we really needed
... big telescopes where we looked at Jupiter (we could see two moons and the rings) and Venus. After we went outside to look at constellations. There are 6 constellations you can't see in the southern hemisphere, and you see all of the constellations upside down. There are also two galaxies in addition to the milky way that you can see (can't see from the northern hemisphere). We also learned and saw through the telescope that when you see a single star in the sky it is rarely ever ...
Elqui Valley & Pisco tasting
... It’s the oldest in the region, so was very authentic. After a tour we tasted the red and the black Pisco...we both preferred the red as it was fruitier. To be honest though without a mixer they tasted like Turkish Raki! Darren bought a bottle of red at 40% alcohol.
It was getting quite late and we were hungry, but before lunch we stopped in Pisco Elqui village which had a nice wooden church. But again ...
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