Mar De Ensueno La Serena

Avenida del Mar 900, IV Region La Serena, Chile

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10 ways to die when Hitchhiking

A travel blog entry by steveowonder

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... understand or care to make conversaton. I manage to fall asleep!! He drops me off at terrible dark bridge in La Serena (surf city) where I now have three options.

# 9 Near Death Experience: I can stand by the side of the road looking for a taxi, and most likely get mugged under the bridge. I could also consider sleeping in a nearby ditch with all my clothes on, but I decide it's smells too much like cat ****. I go with option number 3 and start walking in search for help ...

Day 62 – Humidity at last

A travel blog entry by saseau

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Our sleep was interrupted in the night by the elevation drop we were going through. Our night bus would drop over 2,500 meters during this trip and our ears and water bottles definitely noticed. As Marie describes it, it felt like our ears were popping out of our heads. The first stop we remember was Calexeco at around 7am, but I was able to sleep well past that. Breakfast this morning, provided by the bus, was four strawberry wafer sticks and a pineapple juice. ...

I've Got My Head in the Stars

A travel blog entry by heatherebekah

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... at the observatory we had amazing unobstructed views of the skies. This part of Chile has hardly any light pollution. The night was so black that I felt like I could see every star in the sky. We started off our tour looking at galaxies and zodiac clusters through a gps controlled 30 cm diameter telescope. We learned all kinds of interesting things like the darker the color of the ...

Starry starry night!

A travel blog entry by nick88

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... knowledge made sure we didn't get bored, describing the history, geography and any other little piece of information you could possibly think off about the area!
The next stop was at a dam called which once translated to English, meant water for life, very appropriate for a dam i feel.However maybe lacking a little imagination?! We wondered up path to the dam, through some fantastic scenery, with hillsides covered in cacti and various other rare south American plants, ...

La Serena

A travel blog entry by lieselbotha

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... a craft and foods market with some lovely stalls, and past some modern shops. Wow, wow! Civilisation. And the architecture is Spanish colonial. I couldn’t help draw similarities with Walmer Park – all the small businesses set up in old houses. We ended up in a local restaurant to try the famous Chilean hotdogs that Jared had told us about – with tomato, mayonnaise and avocado. They are called "completos". All for 950CLP – really nice. The avos in ...