Hostal Lickana San Pedro de Atacama

... laser shows on the cliff faces and glow sticks. There was terrible techno music and terrible drunken westerners.
As my memory serves I danced around a bon fire, helped a girl from getting raped and then lost everyone and caught a van back to town. As I stepped out of the van I heard someone yelling at me in Spanish. I was a little afraid as it was dark and we'd been warned about muggings.
I hurried home as the Spanish voice drew closer.
I made it back to the hostel in a funny ...

... 1500; ריקוד 97; בטן (שהזכי
512; מאוד את 60 לרגבי 01;, רק שהזקנ 97;ם לא רקדו עם הבחור 93;ת...) למופע הגענו במק ...

... The lagunas were cool - first full of salt so you just floated around. When you got out the salt just crusted up on you body! Then on to a normal pool to wash off the salt followed by an aqua marine blue lake with a crust of salt around the edge. It was amazing. All this with five volcanoes around you and the sun setting in the distance!

Now back off to Argentina for the final time :(

... water froze on the ground.
After a breakfast of tea and sandwiches we went to swim in the hot springs, which were fantastic until we had to get out and be wet in freezing temperatures.
On the way home we stopped in a cactus valley, saw a gorgeous oasis of green full of llamas in the middle of the desert, went to Machuca (a TINY town where we bought llama kebabs) and then finally back home for a huge lunch of veggies and a nap.
At 4pm we were back ...

... auf rund 3300m treffen wir auf die Ortschaft Socaire. Der Ort verfuegt ueber eine eigene Grundschule. Fuer die weitere Ausbildung muessen die Kinder in San Pedro zur Schule.













Ab dem Ortsende fahren wir auf holpriger Naturstrasse immer hoeher, bis wir auf fast 4000m zu den beiden Lagunen Miscanti und ...

... un mini bus de touristes sarrete et mes colleg crient de venir vite
ouf jarrive a moitie debrailler mais au moins on peut rentrer facilement
je reprds mes affires alhotel pas moyen de prdre un edouche ni meme daller aux toilettes, la femme refuse categoriquement!
bon ben ce sera 17de bus pleine de sable!
je retourne chez ma vendeuse dempanadas preferee et li en commde un pour le trajet, cest parti!!!!!

... an oasis in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile. At around 2,400m itīs considerably warmer than the Bolivian Altiplano that we had just come from. The absence of the piercing Altiplano winds were welcomed by both of us as were the pleasant temperatures of around 30C.

Itīs fair to say that as soon as we crossed the Bolivian border into Chile the difference between the two countries was immediately apparent. Apart from the pleasure of hot running ...

... a roof, and tires as windows. We all sat around singing to songs, mainly rap, they had blasting, admiring one of the mens handicrafts that he makes, and playing with the most adorable 7 tiny puppies I have ever seen!

As the sunset and Evan had to pry the puppies out of my hands (they wanted to give us one for free!) we headed back to the hostel with our two new friends to make dinner. The chef made ...

We take off from Santiago into the clouds and when they clear after half an hour we are in the desert. Not a tree to be seen! We have a brief stopover in Copiapo and then into Calama. From her we take a taxi (CLP 5000 - 10 minutes) to the town asking the driver to take us to the highly rated īTurbusĻbut of course he takes us to a different bus station. They have buses to San Pedro so we get on for a very hot ride with the sun belting in and no air ...

... The best photos were to be had before the sun came up properly because as soon as the sun was strong it dissipated the steam from the geysers and it wasn't so spectacular.


We then walked round to the thermal spring area and had a little dip. There was no where to change so we just dangled our feet in it. At over 4000 mtrs walking did seem a little harder than normal and we were glad of the rest.

Then it was ...