Last Sunday I caught a bus with three others to La Serena about seven hours north of Santiago of a lot to see along the way but it was a reasonably good trip all things considered, mainly the fact the night before as usual we were at the hostel drinking a stupid amount of beer when we heard live music coming from up the street so we went to have a look, completely stunned to find out there were two bands playing one an Incubus cover band the other Pink Floyd, I think I got to bed somewhere around 5am, one of the guys I was with got mugged on the way back home had a knife to his throat and all, they took his money and all his cards but left his passport, so kinda lucky.
The first two days in Serena were beautiful clear blue sky not a breath of wind, so we headed down the beach where I managed to burn the shit outta myself two days on and I´m still sore as hell but I need a tan before I get to Brazil so need to get baked other wise I´m going to blind the rest of the beach goers.
La Serena is a bit of a uni town so the night life is all about drinking which suits me just fine, once again we seem to do alright with the ladies, four of us sitting at a table by the time we were on our second jug we were asked to join a table of girls by the next jug they were all over us, love the woman here absolutely gorgeous..
Had to leave La Serena yesterday one of the guy´s was falling in love with a local and another had a bit of a stalker she liked him a bit more than he liked her, me I just keep it simple I´m not here to fall in love and in fact find it hard to even remember their names. So we´ve stopped overnight in a place called Coiopo and there aint a hell of a lot here just dirt more dogs and more crap food, but were off tonight to a place called San Pedro De Atacama it´s supposed to have a lot of activities so looking forward to doing something other than drinking.
The sunburn´s pretty much all gone I´m back to being white again, I like it better than fluro pink anyway. I´t pretty hot here I have no idea what the temperature is nor have I a clue as to how to find out, not that it really matters it´s about as important as the time or the date that stuff means nothing anymore, it´s all about want now regardless of what time it is..
TBC…
A gruelling 11 hour bus ride in Semi Cama and I have arrived in San Pedro De Atacama, first impression fuck me it´s hot! once again I have no idea just how hot but it’s hot, according to what I’ve read it’s the driest desert in the word fifty times drier than California’s Death Valley with lake beds estimated to have been dry for 120,000 years and an average rainfall of just 1mm, get the picture? HOT! I’m not cut out for this kind of heat personally I don’t mind but my skin just burns I’ll have to get used to it cause I aint got much choice I’m here for a while, just sitting here in the internet cafe I feel like my life is draining away, I guess it cools down at night as most deserts do, also 2000 feet above sea level. It’s a cool little village though tomorrow I hope to go and see some sights..
