Don Raul Residencial San Pedro de Atacama

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... email address. Although anyone could write any old address in their phone and say it belongs to a celebrity. And if you're going to make this stuff up you might as well pick a celebrity people have heard of. Still, he was a nice chap and said next time I was in San Francisco I could stay in his mansion. That would be interesting.







The day after that I went to join up with my Chile and Bolivia tour group; The Atacama Crossing. It's the driest desert in the ...

... stop and just a couple of hundred metres away itīs completely silent if thereīs no wind. Mountains and glaciars have always been my favourite landscape to explore and so on, but this is my first desert and I have to say itīs surprisingly good.

So anyway, ŋwhat did I get up to? Day 1 I went to my hostel but there was no bed free for my to dump my bag next to until people checked out a couple of hours later, so I went to sconce the town and assess some of the tour ...

... The "hostel" was so basic you could just feel the wind blowing through the windows...

Waking up at 6am freezing cold to watch the sun rise was pretty cool and very cold...

So day 2 we drove into the desert proper it was really really dusty and very hot during the day. The desert is called Dali's Desert as he was known to paint it...
We also visited a number of lagoons and saw flamingos ...

... Uyuni about 6pm. I had a 10:15 pm train to the Bolivia/Argentina border, so had dinner at Minuteman Pizza (at the hotel) and headed to the station...pizza was delicious!!!

PS - no shower facilities during the trip =( My hair was CRAZY tangled from the wind, salt, dirt and dry air. Then my hotel was fully booked that night, so I wasn't allowed back into a room for a shower. Did the best I could in the bathroom (bird bath), but still couldnīt wash my hair =(

... waren kregen we lekker warme chocolademelk en weer in de bus terug naar huis.
Bij jullie breekt geloof ik de warme chocolademelk periode ook weer aan, verheug ik me ook wel weer erg op hoor!!! Hier wordt het langzamerhand een beetje warmer. Behalve Patagonia zal nog wat frisser zijn als ik daar heenga. Maar dit seizoen heeft ook zijn voordelen wat prijzen aangaat.
Vertrek morgemiddag met een Cama (bed) bus naar Santiago. Heb mezelf verwend met zoīn bus die zowat dubbel zo duur ...

... all these places that off** earth's natural wond**s you can sit on the sidelines and skim the surface or you can get stuck in and get your feet dusty. We have tried to stand away from the oth** visitors and exp**ience the beauty of the area at first hand. It is rich in min**als – h**e they mine Lithium, supplying 40% of world demand, Potassium, Boric acid and Copp**. The Copp** mine is run by the Chinese (obviously) and is the deepest mine in South Am**ica ...

... mon appareil ne sallume plus, jattds que marion et seb me les envoie.... vs allez voir cest spectaculaire!
on fait le chemin inverse, dabord descente tres drole ds le sable pour rejoindre nos velos, et retour by night, eclairree par les trois quatrs de la lune, la on peut pas dire quon suit les sentiers battus, on ne voit pas un pelo, quest ce que cest bon de se sentir unique au monde!!!!

patience pour les photos, il va falloir que je resolve le pb!!!

... in the world) seeing alpacas, various birds and even an active volcano! The desert really is special - virtually no rainfall at all, clouds are rare (we saw none in 5 days) and nothing green (only rocks and sand).

On our last night we visited a local observatory and had a fascinating and hugely funny evening with a mad Frenchman discussing the stars and our solar system. There were several telescopes set up so we got to see stars ...

... streets admiring the stalls where local merchandise was being sold. When we returned to our jeep, Daniel had prepared us a lunch of chicken, pasta and vegetables which we ate at a table made of salt sat on chairs made of salt! Our last stop of the trip was at the train cemetery which was like playground designed for adults! We had lots of fun climbing in and on the train wrecks and writing in chalk on the old trains - a great end to a great trip!