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Vicuņa, Chile - 1st August 2011

By: Leslie

The night was cold but beautiful, I'd never seen so many stars in my life!  :rolleyes:

In the morning we woke up and headed to Montegrande, another town in the valley.
This is the main church... and look at the bright blue sky! Ohh so nice  :rolleyes:

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Leslie told us this is Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.  :stare: She was raised here in Montegrande, even though she was born in another town of the valley.

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Later we went to Vicuņa, which is where Gabriela Mistral was born.
Leslie said there's a museum dedicated to her, I hope we can go there!
Look at this tower! It's called Bauer Tower and it was before used as the municipality of Vicuņa, but now I think it's just a turistic attraction.

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I found a map of the valley!  :)
Maybe it's to small to see it clearly in the picture, but there you can see three of the observatories around here. I told you this is the clearest sky in the world  :cyclops:

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We entered the museum but we weren't allowed to take pictures inside  :(

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It was lunch time, we were told about a very old colonial house working as a restaurant, so we went there and had a big plate of "chilean locos"  :p which was enough to have us both full.

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We found this is the orange paradise! There are thousands of oranges growing everywhere, just like grapes and avocado!!

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In the afternoon we walked around the town. Look at this! It's Gabriela's face coming out of the ground  :o

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Of course we had to stop and take some time to play hide and seek around this cool tree...  :p

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Ohh, these things were so interesting! They're andean saxophones! I even got to hear them played!  :D

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...And this is another instrument, which name I can't remember...  :thinking:

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And that was our trip to the valley  :D In the afternoon we went back to La Serena.

* Posted Aug 4, 2011, 1:19 am Last edited Aug 5, 2011, 8:11 pm by Leslie [Quote] Go to the top of the page


 

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