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Published: January 8th 2012
A 6-hour bus journey does not sound like fun but the bus ride from Santiago to La Serena was actually pretty awesome. I parked myself right at the front of the bus so that I could get the best views and was definately not disappoined. My fellow passengers seemed less than excited and spent most of the journey asleep so in comparison I must have looked like an excited puppy whipping my head back and forth to check out the surroundings. I was in full-on tourist mode so I even got a couple of photos although sadly they never come out as good as you hope.
One other passenger who was awake however, was an adorable little Chilean girl who I seemed to make friends with despite neither of us understanding anything that the other one said! The highlight of the journey, however, has got to be me being so engrossed in the views that I failed to notice my fruit juice pouring itself all over my trousers. I managed to wash it with my water bottle and the Chilean sun did a quick job of drying it all, but unfortunately this left me with a suspicious looking stain all
over the front and back of my trousers. So, as you can imagine, I rolled into La Serena looking like the epitome of class.
I was only in La Serena a couple of days but that gave me plenty of time to stroll along the beach (not really that impressive, I´m not gonna lie), buy a load of jewellery, and go on a night-time tour of the Mamalluca observatory. The skies in this region are some of the clearest in the world so a lot of observatories are located around here. Thankfully the tour was in English, so we got to learn about the planets and constellations, and the telescopes that they have here in Chile including the Very Large Telescope. As the tour guide said, 'Europe has the money, but Chile has the skies'. So I saw Jupiter and the moon and the stars which was incredible. The tour guide even took a photo of the moon on our cameras through the telescope which I thought was a nice touch.
There are some pretty places in La Serena but I think two nights was sufficient to see what I wanted to. So, on Saturday morning I got
on the bus to Pisco Elqui which is where I currently am. I´m here for a few days so I will give it its own blog soon but one thing I will say is that it is HOT! And with that tantalising preview I shall leave you now. Ooh the suspense!!
Laura
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The Journey to La Serena
Lynn Vincent
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A really great picture Laura, but no sign of Wallace or Gromit.