We woke up to glorious sunshine today and 27C temperatures. It's really a nice break since we’ve had mostly cloudy skies for the last few days. Valparaiso was a non-tour stop for us so we hooked up with two other couples and did a "Tour 4 Tips" walk around of the city. It turned out to be great; Felipe was very informative and high energy, which made the street tour all that much better. Nice place Valparaiso. There are of course the dangerous areas and i...

Day 22 – Coquimbo/La Serena Today is Day 22 of the cruise – sadly only 14 days left – but more importantly these next few days will likely be the best part of the whole trip. We arrived again into overcast, but warm skies in the main port, Coquimbo. Today's tour was $60.00US p.p. which is big savings over the HAL tour – especially since this is a 7-½ hour tour. We head out on the biggest bus yet for our 30 people, so we’ve got...