La Serena Travel Blogs

Tonight I´m setting out again, pushing further up this ribbon of a country towards Peru. When I was planning my trip, Chile was going to be something to get through asap, but I´ve grown to rather like it. The lack of the colour green was a little unsettling at first, but the crazy colour and vi…

This morning on our way to the airport, our cab driver stopped at Lidor, a "super mercado," for provisions. (Think Target Greatland: food and more). Lisa and I are fascinated by foreign grocery stores, so we poked around, took pictures, and picked out picnic supplies:  Lots of bread, cheese, o…

Flew in to Santiago Sept 6th 2008 without any real plans and some flip flops

Here you can join us on our motorcykle tour from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego (south america). We start our journey May 27, 2006 and we will be on the road for about a year! Read our complete story at our homepage: www.tobias-ingeborg.com

A lazy day, and a short bus ride from Vicuna up the Elqui valley to the small village of Pisco Elqui. Another fine shady square with church dominates the town. The Valley is home to several Pisco distilleries whivh is fortified wine. It is served locally with lemon to form a Pisco Sour and although…

This blog is of my trip back to Chile after having left the country a decade ago to move to the United States. During this trip we went to Santiago, Vina del Mar and La Serena (and several other cities surrounding this area).

Knowing that we had an 8-hour coach journey north on Friday and had to be up and ready by 7am meant that I spent Thursday evening in the only sensible manner, by getting drunk in a Bellavista nightclub and getting to know some of the others in the group until 5am. So I was straight back t…

Wat moeten we van Chili zeggen? Lijkt veel op Europa, dus ietsje minder spannend dan de landen die we tot nu toe gezien hebben. Veel wetserse winkels etc. Het eerste deel was veel in de bus door een gigantische woestijn (een van de droogste van de wereld): de Atacamawoestijn. Via Antofagasta, …

We started our 3 weeks trip with a 27 hour bus trip from Santiago to Arica. From there, we took a private tour to the National Park Lauca & N.P de la Vicuna's, down to Iquique. After visiting the port of Antofagasta, we headed for San Pedro de Atacama and visited the famous Valle de la Luna and Tatio Geysers. In our last week we headed back via La Serena to Santiago.

Breezing by La Serena . . . Our way of keeping track of the distances traveled during our journey . . .

Chilean airlines treat you much better than USA airlines.  They serve a small meal even on a 45 minute flight!  I feel much better taken care of.  Today we are going to Mendoza to go to the PASI workshop.  I liked La Serena, so perhaps I will return someday.  I'm feeling ve…

---Work in progress--- Three week trip. Places visited: Bolivia: Santa Cruz, Camiri, Entre Rios, Tarija, Tupiza, Uyuni, Villamar. Chile: San Pedro de Atacama, La Serena, Santiago. Easter Island

I was thinking about taking a day trip out to the vine yards where Pisco (the local spirit) is made but decided that I'd take the bus out there and stay for a couple of nights.The day before I along with two German girls I had met took a tour out on a boat around islands just off the coast of La Se…

The sun did shine tody, just took a little longer to come out.  Was quite overcast in the morning, but had fined up by lunch time.  First stop today was the Archaeologicl Museum where we saw our first shrunken heads and a large moai from Easter Island which has been set up in its own…

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