Incahuasi B&B San Pedro de Atacama

... rich in minerals and led the Bolivians and Spanish to later flee because they started sacrificing people to the gods so they could satisfy their greed (they later believed this place is possessed by the devil, hence no one has ever come back to live in this place)<br>6. The food! Margarita made us, pancakes, lasagne, meatballs (which I got the recipe to!), heaps of vegies and soup (We didn&#8217;t get to try llama though!). <br>7. Of course, last but ...

... my trustly sandals from the morning but I kept going up the first few steep bits until I reached the point where it was dark enough that I couldn't see nothing. Unlike in Laos I didn't have my head lamp and decided to turn back and find a difficult route. I attempted another route just outside the cave, which was a near vertical climb... But I had to quit that too, due to the sandals and water rationing and decided to carry on cycling deeper into the mighty Atacama.<br ...

... for Geyser Tatio at 4 am they were just stumbling in.<br>We sat through a loooong drive to the geysers but the stars were incredible and the old Chilean driver was good entertainment rapping along to "Gangsta's Paradise", complete with gestures and some sassy head-bobbing)<br>We got up to 4320 meters of altitude and were FREEZING outside next to the steaming and gurgling geysers. We were able to walk right up to them and stand over them and study how the ...

... for another 5 km or so, we stopped again to head up one of the huge dunes in the park. The views from the top stretched out for miles providing superb vistas across the Reserve. It became easy to see how the reserve attracted its name as it really did look just like a luna landscape.<br><br>Within a couple of km, we parked the bikes once again so that Jim could try and climb a gigantic stone plateau which is known as the ampitheatre....for this one he was on ...

The bus ride over the Andes was quite hard going, and a girl in front of me was sick with the altitude right before lunch was given out, so it wasn´t much fun! Actually the altitude bothered me a little too, and I had to keep sitting down in the queue for border control as we exited Argentina.<br> But I survived the journey, and got off the bus at border control in Chile, and was slightly disturbed, there appeared to be nothing to San ...

After my VERY lazy time in Arica, I headed over to San Pedro and met Kirsten. San Pedro is a small desert town near the Bolivian border, which although touristy, still retains its laid back local charm and the toursits don't seem too in your face.<br><br>Kirsten arrived later than me from Boliva, so the hostel owner took me into town to meet her. However we'd just missed her and in the meantime she'd been ...

... und Unterhaltung geboten, wir haben uns lieber an unserem Bier festgehalten, die Tänze der Einheimischen bleiben mir ein Rätsel und die deutsche Hüfte hat da einfache ein wenig eingeschränkte Bewegungsfähigkeiten von Rhythmus ganz zu schweigen. Aber was kann man mehr von einem Tag in Chile erwarten. Dann aber auch weiter nach Salta Argentinien. <br>

... for 8am, however when we got there it was shut and nowhere in the town appeared to be open. We wandered around for a while but were followed by stray dogs which got quite annoying after a while. Eventually a café opened where we went for some breakfast. Whilst we were in the café we noticed a clock saying 7.30am - we hadn't realised that there was another hours time difference, oops!! After breakfast we went back to the rental shop which ...

... ju skoro i ja pojela. Sutra idemo opet pa mozda probam :D navecer smo isli (te dvije cure s novoga zelanda i dva engleza) na hamburger i toplu cokoladu. Inace, ovdje sendvici nemaju okusa. Niti su slatni, niti slatki tako da sam u biti cijelo vrijeme gladna (eh, di mi je sad estebanova nanny! :D). <br><br>Uplatili smo prvu rutu za boliviju (salar de uyuni), idemo u nedjelju u 8 ujutro. Put kosta 120 dolara i traje tri dana. Ide se kroz pustinju od soli, kraj laguna i slicno. Kazu da ...

... tarmacked - the plus side to this is lots of places to eat and drink, the downside is it can be expensive considering the country and location.<br><br>The hotel was very nice and had stocks of coco tea. San Pedro itself is not too high but the day trips involve high altitudes and I did get headaches when we got higher. The coco tea seemed to help.<br><br>Unfortunately although the hotel had the details of our our booking they ...