Diego de Almagro Antofagasta Centro Hotel
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A day full of flights
Saturday 6th October
...Continued...
Anyway, I boarded my first flight, and just as quickly, we were landing at the first stop. The flight literally took less than 40mins from runway to runway. The first stop was Arica, at the top of the Chilean coast and it was a tiny airport in basically the middle of the desert, but on the coast.
The flight over had provided fantastic views of snow covered ...
Antofagasta
... in south California. Antofagasta is a large city (1 million people) fairly prosperous, main industry is copper mining. It is very prone to earthquakes, had a huge one (9 on richter scale) in the mid-1800's and another in the mid 1900's, each brought tsunamis. You can see the effect of the tsunami on the city, half is up on a huge ledge, the other half far below by the ocean (bottom half having to be completely rebuilt after each earthquake). Weather is pleasant all ...
Zuid Amerika van Oost naar West doorkruist!
... Beide keren komen laadbakken voor vrachtauto's die de erts uit de open mijn naar boven rijden langs. In een laadbak zou je zonder enig probleem 6 auto's kunnen parkeren!! Maar dit is dan ook de enige afwisseling op de verder rechte saaie weg door de woestijn. De zijn op zich ook niet ontevreden dat zij 3 filmpjes op een dag kunnen kijken op de achterbank.
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Don't Worry. Your Calendar is Right.
In all honesty, I hated this city. It was dirty, expensive(by chilean/peruvian standards) and boring. I got out as fast as I could. The only saving grace was that I accidentally stumbled upon an Chilean Independence Day festival (even thought it wasn't yet Chile's independence day.) It was being put on by a local school in just a totally random place near the town center. at a random time. on a tuesday. The students had split up into groups and had traditional clothes, music, ...
The Mysterious Coast
After saying our goodbyes to San Pedro de Atacama, we've picked up another Ugly Monster to head south and east to the coast. There's just the small matter of crossing a chunk of Atacama to get there. The Ruta 5 Pan-American Highway is fairly well populated with vehicles covering the 250kms or so to Antofagasta, but not a lot else.
We do see some interesting sights en route but they're mostly ...
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