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Friday, December 19, 2014

South America Cruise Dec 2014 Day 16 Ashore in La Serena

    We are on our last sea day before our port tomorrow. We arrive in Santiago tomorrow. We were in the port city of Coquimbo for the quaint city of La Serena Chile. We were ashore for the 10:30 city on your own tour. A 45 minute bus ride took us to a city centre that wa very neat and full of friendly people. It is obvious that there are not a lot of cruise ships that stop in this port.
The city centre itself was full of people. There we bands playing on 3 or 4 corners but we also saw about 1-200 army and police all gathered in one spot. We learned later that there was going to be a university demonstration. We heard the noise but did not see the the march or whatever was planned.
We wandered about the town for about 2 hours going into the market as well as the number of churches that dotted the city centre.

    Back on the ship, we spent the afternoon packing our bags. We will be going into Santiago tomorrow to stay at a central location until our flight at 9:15. We met our friends in Skywalkers and the went to dinner. One couple did not come down as Kelly was in bed with the chills. Judy is better but I can feel a cold coming on. With our flight home the blog for this trip. We do have some time in Santiago for sightseeing tomorrow.

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