So my mom told me a while ago that she would love to see how I write in Spanish. She suggested that I write an entry in Spanish and English (and I am glad to show off :) So here goes:
La fin de semana pasada, una de mi mejores amigos de La Serena (en realidad de los Estados Unidos) vino a Ovalle a visitarme. Pensé que fuimos a difrutarnos en Ovalle, tal vez ver películas y comer mucho, como un "sleepover." Pero el Sábado, mi mamá nos sorpendió con un viajecito por el día. Nos dijo que fuimos a ir al Valle del Encanto, pero no dijo nada más. No tenía idea que erá el Valle del Encanto, pero sonó interesante. Fuimos en auto 15 minutos afuera de Ovalle con mi mamá, mi hermana la Daniela, y mi sobrino el David. Llegamos a un portón simple, y no tenía idea donde estuvimos.
Entramos y en primer, no ví nada especial. Erá un valle, muy lindo, es cierto, dentro del desierto, pero nada muy distinto que he visto en Chile hasta ahora. Pero cuando bajamos del auto y fuimos caminando a unas rocas grandes, ví algo en las rocas. Mi mamá me dijo que erán petroglifos de los Incas!! En primer, ví una o dos rocas con petroglifos, pero de repente, ví que casi todas las rocas los tenían. Erán muy lindos y no tenía idea que había algo así tan cerca de Ovalle.
Tamién, fuimos caminando por el otro lado del valle, donde habían rocas gigantes y un baño de Incas. Entramos en cuevos grandes también, todos de los Incas. Fuimos en total como dos horas, pero nunca había visto algo así en mi vida, y me gustó mucho. Creo que erá una de las cosas mas bakan de mi intercambio hasta ahora!!
And now in English...
This past weekend, one of my good friends from La Serena, well, actually from the USA, came to visit me in Ovalle. I assumed we were going to just have a good time in Ovalle, maybe watch some movies, have a sleep over-type weekend. But on Saturday my mom surprised us with a little day trip. She told us we were going to the Valle del Encanto (or Echanted Valley.) I had no idea what the Enchanted Valley was, but it sounded interesting. We went by car about 15 minutes outside of Ovalle with my mom, sister Daniela, and nephew David. We arrived at a simple, old gate and I had no idea where we were.
We entered the Valley, and at first, I didn´t see anything. It was a really pretty green calley, surrounded by desert, but nothing much different from what I have seen so far in Chile. But when we got out of the car and walked to these big rocks that were there, I saw there was something in the rocks. My mom told me they were hyrogyfics, left there by the Incas!! At first I was amazing at the one or two that I sawy, but suddenly I realised there were more. Almost every rock in view had some kind of drawing on it. There were really pretty and I had no idea there was something so cool so close to Ovalle.
We also went walking to the other side of the Valley where there HUGE rocks and an Incan bath!! In Spanish, baño means both bathtub and bathroom so at first I though we were going to see an Incan toilet, so I was really excited :) but it turns out it was an Incan bath, which was still really cool, because it was a huge, almost perfectly round hole in a rock. We also saw I giant Incan caves. We were only there a couple of hours, but I had never seen anything like that in my life and I liked it a lot. I think it was one of the coolest things I have seen in Chile so far.
We entered the Valley, and at first, I didn´t see anything. It was a really pretty green calley, surrounded by desert, but nothing much different from what I have seen so far in Chile. But when we got out of the car and walked to these big rocks that were there, I saw there was something in the rocks. My mom told me they were hyrogyfics, left there by the Incas!! At first I was amazing at the one or two that I sawy, but suddenly I realised there were more. Almost every rock in view had some kind of drawing on it. There were really pretty and I had no idea there was something so cool so close to Ovalle.
We also went walking to the other side of the Valley where there HUGE rocks and an Incan bath!! In Spanish, baño means both bathtub and bathroom so at first I though we were going to see an Incan toilet, so I was really excited :) but it turns out it was an Incan bath, which was still really cool, because it was a huge, almost perfectly round hole in a rock. We also saw I giant Incan caves. We were only there a couple of hours, but I had never seen anything like that in my life and I liked it a lot. I think it was one of the coolest things I have seen in Chile so far.
The photos are from the top:
Kate and I next to one of the hyroglyfics
Kate and I in a giant crack between rocks
David being "eaten" by a rock shaped like a fish
Kate, David and I in the Incan "bathtub"
Kate and I on top of a giant rock. Yes those two spots up there are us.
