Hotel La Aldea San Pedro de Atacama

... trips to observatories a little chilly!)<br><br>The facts about the mighty, and 23 million years old, Atacama desert are crazy. As everybody knows, it´s the driest place on Earth, 50 times drier than Death Valley in California; it contains several weather stations that have never recorded any rain and studies suggest that some of its dry river beds may have been dry for 120.000 years! Some random guy on the bus said that certain parts haven´t had any rainfall since the ...

... luxury! The night was not as cold and as it was Halloween we had purchased a bottle of Bolivian wine - which was actually quite good. Even though we were now at 3600 meters or 11800 feet and the evening was much milder the wine did not go down that well. We ended up sharing it with some guys who had been at the last hostel, Greek and Austrian armature photographers who were doing a private tour.<br>Again the lights ...

... was a very weird experience and you could even lie on your front on top of the water and you would never go under. Just like lying on a lie-lo. When we got out the guide told us that it was 1500 metres deep!!!!! I think that must be the deepest water I have ever swam in. <br><br>The next lake was just like an oasis and the only way to get in was to jump from 2.5 metres high. It doesn´t sound like that much but you also had to clear the reeds and the rocks ...

Extremes in water, wind and temperature have joined forces to produce this gorge in the Salt Mountain Range.<br><br>At 12,000 feet above sea level, crossing the gorge by foot was challenging and inspiring. We walked between dried up river beds and calcium carbonate and lime rock formations ...

... oder Begegnungsstaette war. Hier hielten die Medizinmaenner ihre Rituale ab, trafen sich die Stammesaeltesten zu ihren Beratungen und taten ihre Weisungen/Entscheidungen dem Volke kund.<br> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br ><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Langsa m gelangen wir in einen Canyon, der von einem kleinen Fluesschen durchflossen wird. Da ...

... gelangen, die von den gleichnamigen 5622m resp 5910m hohen Vulkankegeln bewacht werden. Miscanti, die juengste der 4 Lagunen, leuchtet tiefblau, der Farbton wird zusaetztlich durch das weisse Salzufer und dunklen Berge unterstrichen. <br>Vogel brueten in Ufernaehe und just bei meinem Besuch trabt ein Rudel Vicunias aus der Weite der Wueste zum Ufer ...

... en plein caganrd!!!<br>vide de lombre<br>on attd 1h30 avt qun camiln de travailleurs ns prenne (ils etaient juste alle chercher des clopes et retourne au travail<br>ils ns lassent alembranchemnt de leur campemt et de de la rute qui mene au salar<br>un carrefour en plein desert et la aucune ombre.....<br>on galere galere, joue au uno ms on tient plus, on va aller demander du renfort au campemnt , mais il est ...

... geysers. Tour bus picked us up at 4am (ow!) and we got to walk among the geysers for sunrise. They were fantastic - water bubbling up out of cracks in the ground forming huge plumes of steam. It was a strange feeling to be standing in -13 degrees just a few steps away from a hole in the ground with boiling water splashing out of it. <br><br>The rest of the tour was pretty much a drive through the mountains of the Atacama desert (the driest ...

... though but got a few good pictures. It was so cold that we got back in the jeep and headed to our next destination - the salt museum. This was a hostel which had been made of salt. It was no longer used as a hostel but it was more of a tourist attraction. Unfortunately we couldn't go inside but managed to get a few pics through the window and even all the furniture inside was made of salt. Initially we wanted to stay in a salt hostel ...

evo me u san pedru de atacama (jos uvijek cile) - kod najsuse pustinje na svijetu (navodno), na ne znam koliko tisuca nadmorske visine (dovoljno visoko da te prvi dan boli glava, a mislim da se radi o 2500m, provjerit cu). <br>uploadat cu par slika, a u sobi napisem nesto malo o ovome mjestu jer sam sad u internet cafeu pa nemam vremena. <br>uglavnom, FENOMENALNO JE!! :) danas smo isli na sandboarding i iako sam se us*ala na pocetku, kasnije mi je bilo super<br><br><br> San Pedro de ...