Tulor San Pedro de Atacama

... was formed 23 million years ago... it´s possible.<br><br>San Pedro is almost equally crazy. After hours driving through desert with no sign of life anywhere, you pass over what looks like just another hill and there below you is a large patch of trees and greenery. The streets are lined with old Adobe buildings and now mostly house tour agencies, hostels or eateries. The oasis is surprisingly large but at the boundary it ends very abruptly. Suddenly the trees, and bugs ...

... off at 10pm. I tried to use my sleeping bag liner but because it made of polyester and the air was so dry every time I moved a lightning storm appeared soon gave up as the risk of fire appeared to be too great. <br><br>The next morning after breakfast we set off in our trusty Toyota for the salt flats. Wow so white so flat etc no real perspective on distance as you can see from some of the photos, they were all taken ...

... you had to make sure you got enough distance. This made it quite scary. I did it first....obviously!!! But it took Mark a few minutes to do it (he is a bit of a girl when it comes to water!!!). <br><br>The next lake was only a few centimetres deep because it is lying on a salt flat. This makes for some interesting pictures though because it looks like you are walking on water and you could see your reflection in the water because of the white salt. We ...

... then there was the shallow, freezing water to cross.<br><br>Surrounded by the gorge&#8217;s steep rocky sides, we did quite well with the difficult footing and ascending an affixed &#8220;ladder&#8221; at the end of the day. Cosmo Andino organized the trip.<br><br>See the videos I made!<br>

... Van einen mechanischen Schaden erlitten hat, laufen wir 3 gutgelaunt, mutterseelenalleine in der Glut der Mittagshitze die restlichen paar Kilometer bis zum Beginn des Rainbow Valley. Eine intensive Erfahrung: 3 Menschen, Hitze, absolute Stille, Wueste und ein Fluesschen, das fuer alles Leben bedeutet ... In der Zwischenzeit versuchen unsere Guide und ...

... waelzen sich die Tiere im Sand. Wunderschoen, idyllisch.. <br>Miniques, kleiner und etwas aelter d.h etwas mehr eingetrocknet, leuchtet hellblau.<br>Wir holpern mit unserem Van weiter und besuchen die 4. Lagune die Salar el Loco. Sie ist beinahe trocken.<br>Zurueck zum Highlight des Tages, der Laguna resp. Salar de Aguas Calientes. Unbeschreiblich schoen ... <br>

... de rentrer, lhomme de lentrere ns offre lombre de son prefabrique et un peu deau<br>allez on y retourn eet la des ouvriers ns emmemnt a toconao l ville ou etait la veille, et a mon grd bonheur, je monte ds la benne de la cmionnette<br>je suis trop heureuse!!!!!!<br>on mange a toconao et on entreprd de fre a nvo du stop pour san pedro, fo quon se bouge, mon bus est a 7h30. juste le momt que je choisis pour aller ...

... 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).<br><br>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 ...

... after having spoken to some people on the tours with other companies who had stayed in salt hostels, we were glad that we hadn't as it was meant to be very very cold. From there we drove across the salt flats to a village, stopping on the way to see where the salt mining takes place and there were two workers shoveling the salt on to their truck. We then stopped in a village where a local football game was taking place and we wandered through ...

... br><br>Krenula u 10h busom iz antafagoste, presretna sto napustam lika koji me doslovce istraumatizirao (ne samo svojim retardiranim izjavama nego i svojim retardiranim umom i smrdljivim stanom) i presretna sto odlazim u NEcivilizaciju. Dok sam isla do busa, prolazila sam kroz najgori ghetto grada. Malo zesca katastrofa. Svakim danom u svakom pogledu sve vise volim hrvatsku! <br><br>Bus za san pedro de atacama iz antofagaste platila sam nekih 80kn, a put je trajao oko 5h. Prosli smo ...