Pisco Elqui - The final post

If you read my last post, you know we had driven 7 hours North of Santiago and were effectively staying in a very comfortable, over sized tent (but a tent nonetheless). We had been drinking Pisco Sours, touring distilleries and playing tourist in the small town.  If you hadn't read the last post - you are pretty much up to speed.

For our last full day in town before heading back to the city, we decided that it would be fun to take a half day horseback ride in a small town about 45 minutes away and up in the mountains.  The girls were super excited and we arrived at our meeting place about 30 minutes before we needed to be there.  So we goofed around, picked up our sun hats and waited for everyone to arrive.  Right on time, we loaded up the van and headed out.

It was a bumpy, unpaved road.  And we probably only traveled about 10 miles in that 45 minutes but let me tell you it seemed like we went 100 miles.  The girls loved every second of it!

And then we were off.  MadHatter got her own horse.  And Stinkerbell rode with Papa (Mama is still a bit unsure of her horsemanship skills).  MadHatter got to be in the front with the lead guide as he had a hold of a rope that was tied to the bit of her horse.  She may be independent and a fearless rider but she is still only 5.  And we were traversing some very narrow paths with steep drop offs.  

We rode for about 2 hours or so and then stopped to have a snack and stretch our legs.  And then we hopped back on, finished the ride and headed back to town...

 

We headed out to lunch and had...Wait for it...Wait for it....Pisco Sours!

This one had Merken

 And we made it home just in time to have out complimentary (included in your room booking) massages.  As I am usually pretty eeeehhhh on massages anyway,  I let my girls take my hour.  Well, I let MadHatter have 55 minutes and Stinkerbell barely made it 5.  Seems like Stinkerbell and I have the same problem sitting still and relaxing.  A gene that MadHatter and B both have in spades...

 

After that we washed ourselves off, prettied ourselves up and headed to dinner.  We had an astronomy lecture to attend (which we ended up missing because we all were too exhausted to stay up until 10 for the lecture - which lasted until midnight).  Instead we checked out the observatory, and then went back to our personal observatory.  Our dome had a sip off roof right above our bed.  The kids were entranced and enchanted...So were we...

Pisco Eluqui you were mystical.  Thanks for the memories.