Vacations

Hello. Today I'm going to talk about places that I've been go on vacations. I think I chose this topic because I want to end this semester and enjoy the summer.

The first of these places is Pan de Azucar, a lonely beach located a few kilometers to the north of Chañaral, Third Region of Atacama. This place is a small fishermen's docker inside Pan de Azucar National Park. There is no hotels or bed and and breakfast of any of those facilities, there are only a few camping areas right on the beach. I went in January of 2010 with my girlfriend, and there were only two more visitors at the moment we arrived. Acording to the local people, in February the beach is full of young visitors that party day and night, but as I already said, in January there were just a few people, so our staying was very relaxed. The only problem was that we didn't take any sunshade with us, so we have to stay just a few time under the sun, because in the most arid desert of the world it's not a very good idea to spend a lot of time without any shade. Anyway, the place is beatifull, very quiet and you have the entire ocean for you. Even the hours start to make no sense, I mean you can wake up at the hour you want, the breakfast can be the lunch, the lunch the dinner, and the dinner... well, many times there is no dinner. Another problem is that in Pan de Azucar there is no market to buy things, so you have to bring everything from Chañaral, and where you are travelling hitch-hiking you want to travel as light as possible. But despite those problems, it was a very good holiday and I would love to get back.

The other place that I want to tell you about is Cucao, in the big island of Chiloe. Cucao is one of the few places in Chiloe that is located on the west coast of the island, so it's also very quiet. The local people are indigineous communities and farm and fishermen people, but in summer they also take advantage to make bussines with the tourist. We came to Castro with my girlfriend with the intention of taking a bus to Cucao, but we realized that that the very same day it was a very famous celebration, the party of the moon. The terminal was full of people wanting to get to Cucao, so it was very difficult to get a ticket. Once in Cucao I became aware why there was so much interest to get to this place. It's a magical location, with lakes and ocean, woods, beach, clear sky and many people having a good time. The only problem was that some idiot stole my shoes, so I've to wear sandals untill we came back to Castro. Thanks God it didn`t rain any of those days.