La Serena Chile
Trip Start
Aug 03, 2008
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Trip End
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La Serena,
Chile
Friday, August 8, 2008
Watched a little of the opening of the Olympics then had to take off...drove through Vina del Mar then Con Con . Interesting drive along the coast, saw the seals sunning themselves on the rocks, then we headed straight up Route 5 ..the PanAmericana...the road goes straight as the eye can see. From Santiago to La Serena is a dual carriageway which goes for miles and miles and miles. Arrived in La Serena in the late afternoon where we took the car to Budget because the there seemed to be a bit of wobble in the tyres, did a once around the local shopping centre til it was fixed then came the fun part of once again of looking for a hotel in the dark. We drove around and around the one way streets looking for a hotel eventually found one that maybe was one step up from a backpackers, not there is anything wrong with a back packers. It was all 3 of us together in one room with a private bathroom the hostel is called La Soberania. By this stage we were just glad to have a roof over our heads so we took it. Much to our dismay we had at best lukewarm showers but at least the bed was really comfortable. Did a walk downtown looking for a place to eat but all the places we saw served only sandwiches and hamburgers so we thought we would go to a Chinese restaurant, well what a mistake that was...if it were in Australia it wouldn't last too long. After a really good night sleep and perhaps the fact that we have gotten over our jet lag we managed to leave about 10am...so much for an early start.
