The time had come to leave our great hosts at Los Andes and head north on our own. There were no buses from Los Andes to La Serena so we found ourselves standing at a toll gate on the Pan American Highway waiting for any bus that could take us the 6 hours north to La Serena. Many buses passed, and much time passed before we made our match. And a good match it was, we scored a semi sleeper double decker bus, so needless to say we had a comfortable journey. We arrived in La Serena with the plans all worked out for the direction of our accomodation, then we were surrounded by about three hostal owners which immediately through all our plans in the air. We shrugged off the first two but by the
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