No, not the school. Its a town to the north of Santiago. We are staying at Licanantay Hostel, which from all indications is a total party hostel.... we shall see if we are able to get any sleep. There are good reviews for breakfast, but we are booked on a bus to leave first thing in the morning so I am unsure if we will be able to get any breakfast.
The main attraction in this town is the numerous Churches that abound everwhere. Since today is Palm Sunday, everywhere in the streets people are carrying the most interesting looking palms I have ever seen. They are woven into baskets in a variety of forms. After the basket is woven, they tuck in a cross made of palms, and additional greenery. Some are woven in interesting cone shapes which are quite cool. Valpo is built on a hill and sort of looks like a favella from Rio, thankfully we dont feel as its too dangerous.
We spent the afternoon shopping in the sunday market, picking up all sorts of goodies and some things we need: mike got socks and I got new headphones. I made the mistake of forgetting my iPod headphones (i still had the original pair 4 years later!) at our hostel last night. Oh well. Tomorrow we are headed to La Serena, Chile further north. It is supposed to have more beautiful beach (I can never get enough!!) and I hope the weather is warm enough to enjoy a swim. It is now fall here in South America and the tempetures are cooling but we continue to head north to hopefully offset some of the cold weather. We plan to catch an overnight bus (20 hours or so?) towards the Atacama Desert.
Hah. You wish it was the school.
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ReplyDeletea week. We had a very lovely easter - Uncle Dan made short order eggs for everybody, the kids ran around like crazy people, and a good time was had by all. We talked about you, and everybody sends their love, and is looking forward to your return.