Okay so it´s been a few days and of course, much has happened. So I´ll start it out like this.
New Years Eve & Day
We woke up and ate then we went to downtown. Let´s just say, this was a real market place. There were literally hundeds of tiny shops, shopkeepers and even more people. It was amazing, and everything was cheaaap! After walking around there we headed back home and prepared for the night to come.
At around 11 we left the house and headed to the beach, Ignacia´s family and I. There were thousands of people on the beach, lining the water, waiting for the new year to come. When the New Year did come, everyone cracked open champaigne bottles, shot off streamers, and then the fireworks stared. It was a brand new experience, I loved it. After that we went to a beach party at around 2am, then danced the night away.
The next day at around 5pm when I woke up we ate lunch, then headed out to the beach for some rest and relaxation, then headed home a bit early because of our future travels the next day.
The Observatory & The Valley
We woke up around 7.30am and headed out around 8am to the Observatory. The Observatory is an astrologist dream. It´s on the top of a mountain which is about 2,300m high. Also in the mountains where we were, there were no clouds. Ever. There were multiple observatories up there, we got to tour 2 of them. One had the biggest telescope that was in South America for a while, but now there is a bigger one in northern Chile. The diameter of one of the lense was 8 meters, which is HUGE.
After touring the observatories, we made our way into the Valley. I´m not to sure of the town´s name, but I know it wasn´t big, and all the native citizens there knew each other. Reminds me of somewhere... Anyways, in this valley, it was beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Here, they grew all the grapes for Pisco (Chilean Liquor). It´s what this are thrives off of, besides tourism. We got there and went for a swim, ate 2-day freshly killed sheep. It was pretty tasty. After that we went star gazing because of the motivation we got at the observatory then went to bed.
Today, we went fishing in the valley. We took off-path unpaved dirt roads. It was about an hour and a half bumpy ride but we finally got there. This place was stunning. It was the most beautiful place I´ve ever been in my life. It was between two rows of mountains, the mountains were probably around 4,000 meters tall. We were 3,000 meters above sea level as is. The valley we were in was like a meadow with rivers running all through it, with the huge Andes mountains sheilding it from outside contact. It was beautiful to say the least. I walked all through the valley, and sunk into some mud, but it´s all good.
After the fishing mission, we headed back to the place we were staying and later hopped on a bus back to La Serena. Tomorrow I´m going to the Atacama Desert, I´ll update when I can. :)
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