Hotel del Cid La Serena

... me rencontrer<br>jy vais en pyj, on discute et finalemt me convaint de sortir avec elles<br>cets un peu mort ds la seren ms on trve un bar tranqueille ou on arrive a discuter....<br>tres ympa cette rencontre une galicienne et une andalouse qui etudie a santiago!!!!<br><br>sinon la serena cest pas terrible.... une journee ca suffit et je men vais pour la valle del elqui, direction les villages de vicuña et pisco elqui ( et oui la on la boisson si populaire en suramerica est faite)

From Arica I planned to go south, to where, I wasn´t quite sure. All I knew was that basically all the north half of Chile is desert, or if not, very arid. I was a little tired of this dryness and lack of life, having already seen a lot of it in Peru and Bolivia. The Atacama desert, being the driest desert in the world is void of all plant life, its just big windswept expances of soil and rock. The shapes of the hills and valleys is a lot smoother due to the only erosion being ...

... Everybody stops what they are doing as the tremors continue. We look at each other and walk away from the building out in the open and the tremors stop. Holy cow we just experience a slight earthquake. We laugh and get geared up while everyone is talking on their cell phones and too each other. We ride into La Serena finding a hotel and get checked in. Mike is trying to make an appointment in Santiago to have his valves adjusted which he believes are starting to slap.

23.11.2008 Gegen 11.30 Uhr kommen wir in "La Serena" am Busbahnhof an. Die Fahr war ereignislos, und da sie ueber Nacht ging konnte man viele Stunden schlafen.Am busbahnhof wartet Alejandro auf den Bus, er hat ein Haus mit 2 zu vermietenden Zimmern in der Stadt. der Preis ist 5.000 pesos pro Person inklusive Freuhstueck. Mehr duerfte er fuer die Zimmer auch nicht nehmen. Zusammen mit Sabine und Giovanni, die auch aus San Pedro angekommen sind, quartieren wir uns dort ...

... customs/immigration unscathed. We'd been warned that the road on the Chile side was much less intact and dropped unnervingly with a succession of tight zig zags and u-turns. To be fair to the coach company though they could sense the tension and put on a movie to distract us....Flight 93...yes nothing like a real-life disaster movie to stop your mind playing tricks on you. Genius. Our first impressions of Chile as we left the mountains were that it ...

... lol although i still wont give up the cherry lambrini!!!! after a relatively painless night bus we ended up in La Serena, where i am now, the first night we arrived we just settled in and had some dinner and then yesterday was really sunny and we hung out at the beach and went on a couple of trips. The first was to a Pisco Distillery, pisco is a type of liquor which is really popular over here and my new favourite drink!!! although the tour was a bit rubbish!!! Next ...

... el glaciar Perito Moreno. Son solamente 1.200 km, pero la mitad de ellos no estan asfaltados, asi que el bus va lento y tarda una eternidad. Lo tomamos con calma, y conocemos a un par de chicas, una canadiense y otra australiana, y pasamos las horas hablando, leyendo, durmiendo o contemplando el paisaje de la pampa argentina, ya en la region de Patagonia, semidesertico, donde se ven de vez en cuando ñandus (como avestruces) y guanacos (como llamas pequeñas). Another day ...

... of money has been given to charity, without big costs to the clients. I think every supermarket in the world should do something like that, I think it's a brilliant idea!<br><br>In Iceland, I'm sure about 50.000 people go to the supermarket every single day, and as the prices there are a bit higher, say it's like $0.50 USD they give away of the change on average - that's $25.000 USD a day!! Now, that can sure come a long way! And I personally like it - giving away a few cents and ...

... strikes us again!! They JUST happened to have a three persons room, which we happily accepted!<br><br>We were in La Serena around 01:00, walked from the Panamerican highway to the hotel, which was only a 15 minute stroll away, right in the ols city centre. We were truly starving after the long journey, but where were we gonna eat at 02:00 on a Saturday night? Something HAD to be open, even if it was just a simple hot dog stand. So we went out, in search of something to ...