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Travel Blogs from Coquimbo
First port stop... Coquimbo, Chile
... from where the Star Princess was docked. the Lighthouse is the symbol of the city.
Elqui Valley... an agricultural area that was strikingly beautiful. The valley is rumored to be linked with extra-terrestrial activity. After exploring the highest point of the valley, we drove to a nearby Pisco Sour distillery to sample different flavors of Chile's national drink. The ...
Walking the walk in Coquimbo
... a bit worried that we might have to climb hills a lot on our walk, but we stayed on the main street, which was just on the other side of that small park. We were looking for a supermarket. First we came to the town square, which had a lot of stalls where people were selling all sorts of things, as well as a bandstand where a band was performing, and rides for children. There was also a tourist kiosk, where we ...
Beautiful Coquimbo
... all of my stuff and it is ugly and no one is answering and there are a million stairs there, FINALLY after being an ******* pushing the button a million times during my panic attack a little old lady comes out on the deck of the massive house, RELIEF! Then wait a minute there are like a million stairs up to the hostel and I have a massive bag! I had to wait for her to walk all the way down the 4-5 flights of stairs to open the door to find out OF COURSE ...
Raus aufs Meer
... leckeren) Kaffe trinken gegangen und eine Sache hat sich wieder bestätigt: man braucht hier in Cafés und Restaurants sehr viel Geduld. Im Durchschnitt arbeiten mehr Leute in einem Café als bei uns, aber man muss ca. 3x so lange auf die Karte, die Bestellung und die Rechnung warten. Dafuer beherrschen sie den Blick in den Raum ohne zu den besetzten Tischen zu schauen. Das ist schon ein Phänomen und mir in Peru oder Bolivien in diesem Ausmaß und dieser haeufigkeit noch nicht ...
Man flu hits La Serena!
Located approx 7 hours North of Santiago, La Sarena is a sea side City (which we were thinking would be a town). The main town is set approx 3km from the ocean and there is pretty much no development at the beach!
Lots of bars on the beach but we are here in the low season (apparently the party season starts in October much to Dave's sadness). The sand is brown ...