Miami

I spent the three last days of my year in the USA in Miami, where Cecilia, a cousin of mine lives with her Chilean boyfriend, Hernán. Miami is located on the Atlantic coast of Florida at the southern tip. It is warm year around and usually very hot and humid during the summer months. Spanish is spoken almost everywhere in the city and when I tried to approach someone in English, I felt like a real fool.

Miami Beach, located on the outer bank is almost exclusively tourist orientated, and consists mainly of hotels and vacation apartments. The sand is totally white and of coral reefs origin.

The sunset on Miami Beach from a bus ride along Collins Avenue was a fantastic and unforgettable show.

The avenues display trees which would look very exotic anywhere else. But Miami is like that, a combination of exotism, luxury and good life.