Mar De Ensueno La Serena

... a beer on the beach (this didn't last long however as the wind was against us and we almost got blown away!), shopping, eating and watching a movie!<br><br>As it was a Sunday, not a lot was doing but I saw enough to be impressed by another quaint little Chilean beach town! I like this country more and more!

... to wind and not water. I got a 16 hour bus to a small city called Capiapo and decided it looked pretty dull, so paid an extra bit of money and asked the conducted to take me the extra five hours on to La Serena, about seven hours north of Santiago. The bus dropped me off near some petrol station on the panamerican highway, not the best introduction to the city.. and walking to the center I felt like somehow I had entered a timewarp and had been dropped off somewhere in ...

... de jolies places et des eglises de type colonial. Puis nous allons ensemble sur la plage. C'est une grande plage avec des vagues et des surfeurs. Le soir des pelicans survolent le rivage et plongent dans la mer avant de resortir le bec alourdi de leur prise. Il fait bon et cette ville de la cote est moins bondee que Viña ou Valparaiso et c'est plutot agreable.

Starting with a Geography Lesson I figured since my blogs are about to get more into the details of my travels within Chile, I'd start with a little geography lesson for those who might not know much about the different regions of Chile. (I didn't know until I got here!) Chile is over 3,000 miles long and never more than 221 miles wide. The Pan American Highway runs down the spine of the country and connects every ...

... 25 Grad und Sonnenschein, Sandalen und T-Shirt angesagt :-) Diumenge XXIII - XI - MVIII El viatge en bus es comença a fer llarg a partir de les 9.30 matí... encara queden 2h... uuufff... però he dormit com un tronc aquesta vegada i, sense controls policials. : ) Hem fet vàries parades, hem passat per Calama, Antofagasta, Copiapó i, arribem més o menys a les 11.30am. Agafem un bus urbà cap al centre i, juntament amb un noi del nord-est d'Itàlia (prop de Suïssa), i ...

... quick and easy to get the hang of. As a result we reached our hostel without any problems, right in the heart of Santiago at Plaza de Armes. The hostel wasn't all that flash but had a great view of the plaza, 6 storey's up and a perfect vantage point to see all the activity going on in the build up to Chile Independence Day on Sept 18th. You may think England is pretty bad with all the St George's Cross' hanging out of windows across the ...

... there go my wishes!!! So the reason this blogg is probably really ****, is because im pretty tipsy right now!!! which probably equates to my spelling being pretty bad right now too! However, the bad news is im off to San pedro de Atacama next which is an oasis in the desert which probably means there will be no reception or internet, after that im travelling into Bolivia (Bye Chile) through the Atacama desert where there is most definitely a) no reception , b ...

... good fun as the ice is really close and we can even go to the shore of its lake and play with the cold ice pieces. We got surprised to see how blue it can be! The next day we go to the east part of the mountains and walk the last treck, to see the Torres (towers) close-up. A hard and steep walk at the end but inspiring views up there so we are very happy and go back slowly and enjoying the scenery. Each day we walked between 15 and 20 km, not too bad! Back in Pto ...

... and easy going, accepted me for all my nuttiness (and there's plenty!), life is laid back and the weather is good all year round - never freezing cold or roasting hot and it barely ever rains, right at the beach with fertile valleys in the interior. It's also got great touristic potentials. But it was now time to go "home" - my new home - as I was moving to Villa Unión in La Rioja province, northwest Argentina, where I had been accepted in the university to study Ecotourism. I had ...

... some place open. Wasn't going too well - NOTHING was open. But then we got to the street where all the bars are located in the center and then we found the nicest grill restaurant!! And it was OPEN! There, we ordered a PARILLADA PARA 3, a BBQ for three persons, including all sorts of stuff: beef, pork, chicken, sausages, spice sausages... Washing our throats with ice cold PACEÑA beer from Bolivia. AMAZING! This had been some of the best food I had tasted for ages and ...