La Serena Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Sooooo, I am off to Chile for a year!

I will be leaving as of the 26th of aug and won't be back until September 2010!!!

So,this will be my way of blogging.

I will be living in La Serena and teaching at Incap.

Scary! Exciting!

So,please comment,good way to stay in touch with everyone .

Jess xxx

After our two days in San Pedro we head down to La Serena via Antofagasta... nothing much to report from Antofagasta apart from a haircut which tunred out to leave my hair much shorter than I had planned... my "mas corto" tunred out to be "mucho mucho mas corto".... I'll get used to it eventually... it's just hair!... we then take a night bus to...

Day 29 - 31 - The 18 hour night bus (eeek!) across the driest place on earth to La Serena on the coast! The eve of day 29 we got on the dreaded 18 hour night bus to La Serena on the coast. Unfortunately that meant we didn't see much of Chile but under the moonlight all I could vaguely see was harsh mountain and desert landscape all around. At ab...

Vorab **stmal d** Plan den Ki**an und ich, meine neu** Reisebuddy, hatten. Um La S**ena gibts die trockenste Wüste d** Welt, in manchen gegenden hat es 50 Jahre nicht mehr g**egnet, und im Algemeinen wird gesagt es gibt 360 trockene Tage im Jahr! Was ist da natürlich naheliegend? S**nwarten bauen!!! So ist es also auch viele d** größten Teleskop...

Left Valparaiso this morning and jumped on the bus to La Serena at 1045am. Penny joined me for a short ride to Vina Del Mar as she was meeting a friend. We said our adioses and I headed off on the bus north on highway 5.The scenery along the way was beautiful. The area is the beginning of the Atacama desert and it looks like it. Unfortunately I ...

It is Clement's last week here in Chile before he and Sabrina head off to Costa Rica for their wedding and then onto California where he will be starting another post-doc at prestigous Stanford U. So, to celebrate, Clement invited all his friends and colleagues over to his place for a BBQ. Clement and Sabrina live in a 'VIP' appartment on the be...

Monday - Close to La Serena there is a huge penguin colony and a group of around 150 dolphins (what is the collective name for dolphins?) so Lynette and I went on a tour to find them. We paid 25000pesos (25GBP - eeeek, expensive, but for the promise of lots of dolphins....) for the tour which left at 8am and we were driven an hour and a half to ...

Good day, our english speaking friends! We are now sitting on an internet cafe in La Serena,Chile. The weather is nice and we're looking good. La Serena has been a allright city, with it's ups and downs. Our best experience was yesterdays trip to Isla Damas, or ladies island, a island with lots and lots of sealions! There was especially this one...

Mit dem Bus fuhren wir zuerst nach Antofagasta (haben leider keinen direkten Bus nach La Serena buchen koennen). Kurz nach Sonnenuntergang (wir haben geschlafen) hat uns der Chauffeur geweckt und Jochen musste zu ihm (wir waren in der ersten Reihe). Er zeigte im am Himmel den Kometen MC NAUGHT. Wahnsinn, wir konnten den von blossem Auge sehen. L...

Naturally today´s activities were geared towards getting over the over indulgence of the night before. Fintan went off out and about for the morning while Me and Steve nursed our hangovers. When Feef got back we went down to the shopping mall and had our lunch. I was dying slowly. Steve felt better after the food. We met the 2 Columbian guys aga...