• Home
  • About
  • Travel Destinations
  • Food
  • Travel Tips
  • Reading List
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • Sign Up
Home / South America / Chile / La Serena, Chile
← Viña del Mar y Valparaiso, Chile 
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile → 

La Serena, Chile

May 26, 2014 by Jack Leave a Comment

When you get off a bus at 5:30AM, the last thing you want is your hostel to be closed until 7AM. Waiting around in the bus station and the same in the hostel, by the time we could check in at 11AM I could hardly keep my eyes open. So we slept until about 3PM trying to catch up on the limited 4 hours sleep we had on the bus.

After a walk to the lighthouse and the beach we went for a game of bowling at probably the worst ally ever. It gave out free spares and strikes by just wiping away standing pins. It would drop pins from the machine that picks them up to clean the fallen from the first bowl so more fell over when it replaced them. For those bowling enthusiasts out there, we drew, 2-2.

Coquimbo & Wild Animals

It’s a long 10KM from La Serena to Coquimbo but a cycle path makes it much easier. The road is flat so the going is pretty easy and with the moderate temperature of Autumn we were there in no time. Arrived at the port and saw pelicans for the first time ever. There were hundreds of seagulls and 20 or so pelicans all swarming around some discarded fish bodies. A dog decided to chase and catch one of the pelicans but let it go from its grasp as the pelicans fled to the water.

As we made our way further into the port we saw another wild animal for the first time (in the wild), sea lions. At first we saw them in the water and then slightly more disgusting they were sat at the edge of the sewer pipes waiting for fishermen to discard fish.

Walking the Town

Very small town with 1 main plaza with a fountain that wasn’t on and about 8 churches within a 2 mile radius. Nevertheless it was a nice little town to walk around but after an hour we struggled for things to see/do.

Share La Serena, Chile

Twitter Facebook Google+

← Navigate the gallery by thumbnails, swiping, left & right arrows & enable full screen. →

Other posts you may like.

Pucón, Chile

Santiago, Chile

Humming Bird, Santiago, Chile

← Previous Post 
Next Post → 

Filed Under: Chile, La Serena, South America

Instagram Feed

My Story

  • Iquitos, Peru
  • Lima, Peru
  • Paracas, Peru
  • Nazca, Peru
  • Arequipa, Peru
  • The Inca Trail, Peru
  • Cusco, Peru
  • Copacabana, Bolivia
  • La Paz, Bolivia
  • Uyuni, Bolivia

Featured Post

After catching a very bumpy and long train from the border between Brazil and Bolivia we arrived in Santa Cruz knowing time wasn’t on our side. We caught a taxi to the centre and found a cheap hostel with some dodgy beds and set about finding breakfast. We found a mercado (market) that was, on […]

Genesis Theme Framework for WordPress
I use the Genesis Framework to power this WordPress website.

Popular Links

  • South America
  • South East Asia
  • Musings
  • Bangkok
  • Brazil
  • Bali
  • San Pedro de Atacama
  • Buenos Aires
  • Cambodia
  • Video Blog

© Traveling the World 2022. Disclaimer.

Designed, built, maintained & written by Jack Davenport.

Copyright © 2022 · Traveling the World on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in