Blogs from Antofagasta, Antofagasta Region, Chile, South America - page 2

After leaving La Serena we reached the Atacama desert region where the vegetation dissapears altogether and there's just sand and rock for hundreds of kilometers. The first 3 days from La Serena took us to Copiapo and were still pretty well populated so we didn't have to carry too much food and water. After leaving Copiapo we began the proper desert part, which was a 570km ride to Antofagasta. The ride from Copiapo follows the coast for a while before heading inland and slowly climbing to 2200m before coming back down to sea level at Antofagasta. The climb was really gradual, sometimes the road barely looks like it's going uphill, but being in our second lowest gear told us it definately was! The first 3 days were tough going because of the heat and having to ... read more

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Hello All, I am on the road right now but have a bit of time and found an internet cafe, so I will give you a quick udpate. We left Concepcion and have been heading north for about a week now. We went direct to santiago by night bus and the following morning hitched a ride to valparaiso. We had a full day in valparaiso and i have to say i liked it, except it was pretty dirty. Cool architecture and city planning though. The next day we took off too La serena. We arrived super late and didnt have time to see much except the japanese garden and plaza de armas. The next stop was supposed to be Copiapo but we got there and the hostals were expensive so we kept moving to Antafogasta. Here ... read more

(Oct 22..Sorry guys....this was written, as was the Peru-pre tour, but not published so if you're interested here it is) Being on holidays we lost track of days and dates and thinking that we had only one more day before we flew to Lima we took off early in the morning to Iquique. On the way we stopped off to see the geoglyphs at Los Pintados which are truly fabulous. Pintados is located west off of the PanAmericana Hwy and south of Iquique. Here are found literally hundreds of 'glyphs on several hillsides. About 350 figures are scratched into the hills. No one seems to know what they all mean. Another drive through, yet more desert. Iquique is founded at the base of huge mountain range and a huge sand dune and if you look down ... read more

Dag 54. Frokost paa hotellet er mellom 07-09 - vi vaaknet akkurat 09, saa vi rakk den ikke. Vi gikk til en kafe for aa spise frokost (Loft Cafe), og der bestilte Jane bl.a. en kaffe mocca - den var nesten like god som den nabo Jannike lager :-). Vi har brukt deler av dagen til aa skrive i dagboken, for saa aa legge ut blogg. Eirik synes vi bruker saa mye tid paa aa skrive og oppdatere bloggen, at han lurer paa om det er verdt det. Vi spiste lunsj igjen paa kina'en. Det var saa herlig aa spise noe mat som var litt mer krydret. Da vi var ferdig aa spise og kun hadde hvert vaart glass med vin igjen, snublet en kelner i bordbenet. Alt paa bordet veltet og det var rodvin overalt. ... read more