The best holiday

I don’t know if it is the best holidays I’ve ever had but it is a holiday I remember with happiness. The place I am talking about is Punta de Choros,  I went there in 2012 with part of my family and some friends and we stayed there for about  1 week.

Punta de Choros is a town located 114 kilometers northwest of La Serena, and is known for his nature specially its fauna and the islands that form part of the Humboldt Penguin National Reserve and that you can visit from there. This National Reserve is compound from 3 islands: the Chañaral Island (located in the region of Atacama), the Choros Island and the Damas Island. The last 2 islands are near to Punta de Choros. An important information is that like these islands form part of a Nacional Reserve you can only disembark in the Damas Island. From Punta de Choros you can take a tour that will take you to see the Choros Island, where there are hundreds of Humboldt penguins, but also you can see sea lions, birds (like the “piquero”), the “chungungo” (marine otter), dolphins (many of them because they swim and travel together) and if you are really lucky maybe you can see a blue whale (we didn’t have the lucky to see a whale the days we were there :( ). And after that you can disembark in the Damas Island, this island has beautiful beaches.  

Anyway, if you love to see nature you should go there some day, we had a really great time, during the day you can take a tour and in the night you can lay on the beach watching the clear sky and the stars. I think that’s one of the reason why I remember so much this holiday.