On Thursday night (October 8th), I left on a midnight bus to La Serena with two friends. We spent our first day exploring the city however there wasn't very much to see in this town so we just wandered around the town for majority of the day. Founded in 1544, La Serena served as the sea link city between Santiago and Lima. We ended up spending a couple hours in the city's Pedro de Valdivia Park filled with soccer fields and a small zoo complete with vultures, ostriches, reindeer and goats...it put the San Diego zoo to shame...haha.
In general, Chile's northern skies are famous for their clarity and transparency and therefore, is the ideal location to make astronomical observations in the Southern Hemisphere. Located approximately an hour away from La Serena is the small town of Vicuña where many of the observatory towers are located. At 7:00pm on Friday, Jeanny, Grace and I went to the Mamalluca Observatory Tower to observe nebulas, other galaxies, Jupiter (pronounced Who-Pee-ter in Español), constellations and the remains of an dead star.
Mamalluca Observatory Telescope
Pedro de Valdivia Park/zoo
One of the 29 churches in La Serena. Every corner of this city has a church on it.
City life in La Serena
Words of the day: estrella=star, rezar=to pray
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