La Serena Small Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Leaving Vina Del Mar I followed the coast upto Papudo via Concon and Zapallar, excellent views along the way and the scenary was always changing. Zapallar and Papudo are very scenic, nestled in there own coves with beach. A big **** dog tried to rip my leg off while I was doing about 60kms just out of Concon, I missed my turn off as I got to the...

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As you have probably seen I have managed to search the city of La Serena and located a USB cable. The first store did not sell one and told me that there was no store that sold them in La Serena. Well, I proved that chica wrong and found one at the next store. I almost want to go back and show it to her but itīs a far walk. Moving on...I spent t...

Just beside the university there is this amazing little resturant called La Caleta. We eat there for lunch pretty much every day. Its much better than the university cafeteria and you get more food for less money. For 1000 pesos (about $2 CDN) you get fish, rice, potatoes, salad, tomatoes, beets, bread and pebre (a kind of salsa), and juice. Its...

We arrived at midnight in La Serena and at an earlier stop we'd rung ahead and booked into a hostel recommended in the book. We've had to lower our standards since arriving in chile as accomadation costs so much more than equador, peru and bolivia. The place we were staying in turned out to be a complete dive - the room itself wasn't too bad but...

Sat 16th - Mon 18th Dec. Nice beach resort town north of Santiago, and a convenient stopping point for us on the way to the Atacama desert. Awesome waves if you brave enough to enter the sea, need to watch those rip tides!!