Hey!
Another sunny day here in La Serena! In fact most of the days are sunny here and fantastically it only rains a few days a year!
In the morning ("morning" in holidays never means earlier than 9 am here ...) we went walking to the centre, wich is just a few block away from our hostal and we found this church called Santo Domingo which was built in the year 1700 and something...
Inside it was cold and they had nice music playing which gave a nice and calm feeling
Then we went out and just across the street we found the biggest and main cathedral of the city, Catedral de la Serena. It was built around 1800.
We were lucky to find it almost empty because there was a big "no photos" sign I didn't mean to be disrespectful but such a nice construction must be photographed, right?
Next to us there was another tourist with his camera under his jacket, taking photos whenever he thought no one was looking! of course he never imagined there was a little toyvoyager bunny watching him from between the big pillars! haha!
Then we went out to the street again...
Haven't I told you mum that in La Serena most of the constructions keep a colonial style? In the centre, for example, they can't build anything bigger than 4 floors height, and most of the contructions have tile roofs
Anyway, we were walking in the street and found quite a nice building, but it belonged to some court or something like that so we were just trying to sneak near the door, but a nice guard found us and invited us inside to take photos!
Inside the building there was a beautiful patio!
Then out in the street again we found this cool tile bench where we sat to rest for a while
I was distracted looking around and talking with the others when Leslie got us all into a cab...
...and took us to a Japanese garden!
It was really peaceful even if it was surrounded by two of the main streets of the city! You could barely hear a noise other than the water and birds.
...And talking about birds... I saw black necked swans!
And then we all climbed this japanese sculpture to get a grupal shot Of course I climbed higher than the others
It was quite a fun day!
I hope you're having fun back at home too, mum!
See you soon!
Bye!