Needless to say, we didn't do much on Christmas itself. We walked around town a little, got some ice cream at the gas station (which was open), and hung out under the palm trees. We got dinner at the Chinese restaurant (the same one we ate at the night before). Very low key.
The next day we decided to go to the supermarket now that it was finally open. Our map (given to us by the hostal) indicated we could swing by the Faro (lighthouse), along the beach, and to the market in about a half-hour walking loop. Turns out the map was comically out-of-scale, with the blocks near town center given in one scale and the surrounding ones in an entirely different one, with no indication this was so. We wound up walking for 3 hours. As we were prepared for only a short walk, we got absolutely scorched by the sun. We spent the rest of the day feeling crispy.
Overall La Serena was a decent place to stay, only it sucked that everything was closed for the holiday. It was a much bigger city than we had anticipated, complete with suburbs and condo farms. Parts of the city felt just like walking around in the US, not at all like the rest of our South America experience. It's almost like Chile is a world apart.
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