We left Antafogasta early to get Baquedano where we visited a train cemetery, full of engines used to transport minerals and workers. Now that the nitrate mines have been abandoned these trains are no longer required but have not corroded due to the lack of humidity in the air. After having some fun climbing over the trains we sat down to a grea...

I must confess that we had more ice cream in Vicuna for breakfast and then began our journey back to La Serena, up the ridiculously long coast to Calama (our last long bus ride in Chile and our last comfortable bus trip we fear as we head into less developed countries), and on to San Pedro de Atacama in the morning. The scenery got more and more...

Quick note as the internet is the slowest weīve seen even thought ehy charge 3x as much as the cities and advertise falsely that it is fast. Hmmm, first impressions is that I (Kate) feel like I am being a bit ripped off. Yes, itīs a super cute place in the desert, inan oasis style setting, lots of cute adobe built homes and loads of tours to see...

Dec 18th Jeeze! There's only a few days till Santy comes down the chimney... Plans must be made for our Christmas relaxation stop over. Since yesterday we have realised how expensive everything has suddenly become since gaining entry to the most pricey place in SA. We went for a sandwich (cheese....just cheese) and a juice and it cost nearly 8 e...

Hello everyone. Just a short entry to add a few more photos and videos of our trip today. We have been up since 3.30 am in order to go up the mountains to see the Geyser activity at 6.30am. Fantastic! This was followed by a swim in the volcanic swimming pool at 4.600 metres of height (I did swim like Johnny Weismuller though!) Our Xmas dinner wi...

So... Chile is expensive. We found the cheapest accomodation in town ($8 each compared with $7 for the 2 of us in Bolivia! ouch!), and tried to get some money out of the ATMīs. One of them didnīt take visa, and the guy in front of hamish at the other one asked for 150000 pesos and only got 80000 out! The rest of the money was stuck in the machin...

Up 440 to make breakfast but because i hadnīt had to time to pack last night I was terribly late to help and got to feel guilty about that. Left 530 and it was a quiet bus for quite a while. Took 1.5hrs to get through the border (after lunch) then we drove through no-mans-land between Argentina Chile for 1.5hrs (and it was a bleak desert like pl...

We came here mainly due to it being a base from which to book a tour to do the salt plains of Uyuni but ended up doing more than we expected.Frstly we got there by travelling through the Andes from Argentina....sweet Jesus I nearly died on the bus seeing the drops below us on the windy narrow roads. The bus driver appeared to be practising fro t...

Well, we finally got to do our long awaited salt flat tour! After strike one in Tupiza with Liz getting sick the night before, we were not taking any chances this time and spent the day beforehand only eating processed food out of a packet!! We had a really good group of people including an Italian guy, a French couple and an Auzzie guy. We all ...

Se vedno do kosti premrazena sva zdaj stala na eni izmed prasnih ulic San Pedra de Atacame... kmalu sva si poiskala prenocisce s vroco prho. Mislim, da sem se vsaj uro in pol odtajala pod vroco vodo...koza na prstih se je ze cisto nagubala. Ze po krajsem sprehodu po mestu sva skupaj z Matejem ugotovila, da je to puscavsko mestece res prijetno. O...