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Trip Start Oct 05, 2007
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Trip End Oct 04, 2008


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Thursday, May 29, 2008

After a very comfy bus journey with the most caring bus people ever...you should have seen the tenderness with which the bus man put a blanket over a sleeping lady......and we got food, we arrived in La Serena a pretty little seaside town!  We stayed in the very friendly Marias Cassa and admired the beautiful shoes and sandles the owner made before heading out around town to admire the beautiful houses and churches and a rather more successful attempt at booking a bus ticket!  We then experienced a luke warm Chilean meal before crashing exhausted!

The next day after a very welcome lie in, we visited the archeological museam which contains many misterys unrevealed to the non spanish speaker....there were some skeletons, a mumified girl and a horse skull that much we could work out!!  Then a wonder through the market, and the purchase of some gloves made of rabbit and the most rediculous hat ever!!  Then I rumaged through an antique shop, which contianed treasures ranging from rusting spurs to chandelirs and guns!!  Following a dissapointing lunch was a visit to the cathedral and attached museam - the bishops must look incredibly grand when they dress up in all the paraphenalia that was on show!  By this point we had exhausted La Serena of its tourist attractions in the immediate vecinity apart from of course the japanese garden.....just so random!  Our evening meal was an adventure as I wanted to go to a real Chillean eatery that was recomended to us!  So we walked in and as expected the entire place went silent!  We then thourough confused the matre die (or the chilean equivalent) by the word vegetariano....especially when we had established that didnt include chicken...even if she went away and came back again and asked agian!  Eventually she came up with a solution....ensalada ee arriz!  So after an amusing chat with some locals whos brother lived in America we were presented with four slices of tomato some lettuce and half a plate of rice....and the ubiquitos bread and salsa....salsa and rice turned out to be quite tasty!!

That evening we set off on an over night bus up to antofagasta, to my delight we were provided with a late night snack and breackfast!!  I did cause our lovely bus man some concern as i insisted on having the curtains open all night but we eventually reached some sort of agreement and he stopped looking so worried!  By the morning we were driving through the dessert where there is litterally nothing - it made the outback look abundant in flora and fauna!  The sunrise made the hills look amazing as they went from blue to orange, the distance looked hazy (incorrectly giving the impression of heat) and the landsape appeared to be forming before your eyes as more hills would appear....it was truely sureal!
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