Diego De Almagro Calama

... my taxi to the airport for my flight to Santiago - Where I have 13 hour wait for my flight to Auckland.<br>I have just waisted 36 hours of my life and I,m about to lose Sunday !!! My flight leaves at 11-30 Saturday night, 13 hours later I get into Auckland - On a monday morning .... Work that one out !!!<br>Still it,ll be nice to get back to talking to people without ...

... Soon the show was over and we killed a couple ofhours more in the food court before heading to the bus station, to pick up our stored luggage and catch the bus. I dont know what possessed me to ever decide to visit this town, but basically it only exists because there is a big mine nearby (when I say big, I mean big....the largest open cast copper mine in the world(. <br>

... glad we didn't buy from you!!! So my advice....if you forget your plug adapter...don't worry...but it in the country you are going to and check other stores besides computer stores. :) Yeah for Cathie and Becky....we may been screwed on other money items this trip, like exchanging our $ in San Pedro de Atacama, but we came out on top on that one!!!

... bit of late night food when there was a car crash just outside the cafe. A car had run up the back of a 4x4 at the lights. Just read this back, quite uninteresting really, sorry if you read this far and are as bored as I am with this entry. Will do better next time. Not even a nice photo to look at either my apologies again!! Anyway, took the bus to San Pedro de Atacama the next day.. Much more exciting....

... Portem el permís i l'assegurança internacional d'un altre cotxe... que és a Antofagasta (el mateix mòdel amb una matricula gairebe igual, que ja m'he aprés desprès de tot el rotllo, el que portem és BF BC 31, i el que hauriem de portar BF BC 13).Demà ens el vindran a canviar (la gasolina i els dos dies i mig perduts no els hi pensem perdonar, i ja posats, entre altres, no pensem ni netejar-lo una mica... i mira que est ...

... t believe it when I saw stone carvers there, selling little rocksalt llamas....it must be hellish to work there. They were completely covered with balaclavas and facemasks, which made it all the more strange! So after a week of touring Cafayate, Cachi, San Antonio de los Cobres and all the landscape around, we were well ready for a day off yesterday. We spent it in Salta, pretty much sitting in the square reading our books - it was ...

... it was really impressive...as usual I have photos but I can´t upload them here as there is a usb connection but no active x installed...I´ll have to do it when I get home...if you want to see some examples of what I´m talking about you can search for images on this site. Right now we´re in a town called Calama in Chile on the way to Arica. The bus takes a break here for three hours and then ...

... terms of hostels, but was slightly concerned by the fact that EVERYTHING (tables, seats, bar, beds, floor) was made of salt - a substance not necessarily renowned for its insulation properties - and that it was likely to be significantly below freezing that evening. There was no heating, I had been gradually starting to feel ill throughout the day and I had no sleeping bag (everyone else on the tour did). It was basically a case of counting down the hours until we could ...

... volcanoes in the distance. After lunch, we were recommended a tour company by the hotel and set off into town to check out what we could do whilst in San Pedro de Atacama. After booking tours to the Salar de Atacama (salt flats), Altiplanico Lakes (at 4200m), El Tatio Geysers and Valle de la Luna, we went back to the hotel to chill in the glorious sunshine and catch up on some much needed sleep. Pablo the hard core sun worshipper spent quite a long time baking in the ...

... a few others) all have telescopes here worth millions. You can take night tours of the area....so we did....pretty cool. We didnt see the big expensive ones but they let us fool around in one of the older ones. It was a very good tour though, the guide explained teeh constelations in the night sky, showed us a few telescopes outside and pointed them at a few stars in that we had a look through. We even saw the rings on Saturn up ...