La Serena

hi and welcome back, we last left emma at her first destination, where she saw a few sites, got completely lost and has since boarded the budget tour truck(we´re not allowed to call it bus, even though it looks like a 4wd bus) Tuesday night we got to meet the group of people who´d already been travelling around other parts of SA, which we were joining for the next six weeks, very nice dinner at a place called varcas cordoba which translates to "fat cow" very yummy piece of steak. Earlier that day another girl from the hostel, and I got very lost on our return from a large hill, san christabel, which has a 35m statue of the virgin mary atop and great views of the city of Santiago.
Since then we have driven 7 hours, basically north along the coast and arrived in the lovely coastal town of La Serena which boasts as the home of 29 churches(all chatholic i presume). The suburbs we drove through on the way has very organised and neat rows of matching(i mean completely identical) houses and terraces.
Last night after setting up camp we were driven up the top of a hill to an astro observatory. The sky was amazingly clear and the guide set up telescopes to shown us saturn, jupiter and several star clusters and nebula´s of distant galaxies.
Tonight we will be playing silly games and drinking punch? What can i say, a group o Aussies and Pommies.
But i shall leave you now as i need to go and pick up my laundry, more exciting installments to come, possibly even some pictures if i can be bothered