A few days in Parque Nacional Pan de Azucar or the Sugar Loaf National Park

Hello from Ismene. We are in Pan de Azucar, a national park in the north part of Chile by the coast. This is our fourth national park by the sea. Do you remember which other ones we visited? Paracas in Peru, Galapagos in Ecuador, Tayrona in Colombia and now this one is the fourth.

We spent our days camping, playing on the beach and flying the kite that Chronis and Titika (our Greek grandparents) bought for Orestis's birthday a few years ago. That of course means that it was....windy. Very windy!

On the first day, we spent the morning building a homely place on the beach out of sea weed, sand and other treasures  and had a rewarding, delicious lunch of fresh fish sandwich and chips. After lunch, with full tummies, we decided to go on a walk, and as soon as we got out of the car, we saw an Andean fox, just wandering by and looking at us curiously! 

The walk took us through a valley to a viewpoint where you could look for miles and miles ahead down to the ocean. There were cacti all the way through the walk and three resting spots before the viewpoint.  When we got there it was cloudy but it was even more amazing to see a ray of sun light peeking through the clouds.

The second day, it was very cold and cloudy but we spent the day doing pretty much the same: flying the kite, building things on the beach and going for lunch. The boys were very excited in the afternoon because there was football and they spent all afternoon in the car trying to listen to the match. Luckily, England won and at the weekend they are in the finals!

Heading south now and getting closer to Santiago. I am feeling sad because we are going to leave South America in a few weeks. But I also feel excited...pretty much because of the same reason. It's also my birthday in two weeks so that has to be a good reason to be excited, right?