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Valle del Elqui, Chile - 31st July 2011
By: Leslie
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Posted Aug 3, 2011, 1:58 am Last edited Aug 3, 2011, 2:38 am by Leslie
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Vicuña, Chile - 1st August 2011
By: Leslie
The night was cold but beautiful, I'd never seen so many stars in my life!
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
Leslie told us this is Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was raised here in Montegrande, even though she was born in another town of the valley.
Later we went to Vicuña, 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 Vicuña, but now I think it's just a turistic attraction.
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
We entered the museum but we weren't allowed to take pictures inside
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" which was enough to have us both full.
We found this is the orange paradise! There are thousands of oranges growing everywhere, just like grapes and avocado!!
In the afternoon we walked around the town. Look at this! It's Gabriela's face coming out of the ground
Of course we had to stop and take some time to play hide and seek around this cool tree...
Ohh, these things were so interesting! They're andean saxophones! I even got to hear them played!
...And this is another instrument, which name I can't remember...
And that was our trip to the valley In the afternoon we went back to La Serena.
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Posted Aug 4, 2011, 1:19 am Last edited Aug 5, 2011, 8:11 pm by Leslie
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Cherquenco, Chile - 17th August 2011
By: Leslie
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Posted Aug 17, 2011, 10:52 pm Last edited Aug 17, 2011, 10:54 pm by Leslie
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Temuco, Chile - 19th August 2011
By: Leslie
Hi Mum!
Today Fiona and Leslie had a surprise birthday party for me!
How exciting! I'm 1 year old now!
It was a wonderful day!!
Love,
Timothy
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Posted Aug 25, 2011, 12:21 am
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