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Travel Blogs from Calama
Leaving the Land of Dust & Sun
... sites and old run down buildings. Calama certainly was a big change from San Pedro, which thrived off of tourism. Calama was definitely a Chilean town that probably didn't see to many Americans. Yet, this was kind of nice, to see the side of Chile that I'm sure many people don't take time to notice.
We walked for a solid hour. The exercise was great, but the beaming sun made this trek less enjoyable as time went on, and I was very happy when I kind gentleman pulled over on ...
Calama again
Retour à Calama. Pao c'est cassée et c'est maintenant Clau et Jota qui squattent chez Max. Ça fait plaisir de revoir Max et ses potes, les gosses de Maru, de squatter le Tambo (le bar d'Osvaldo où ils se réunissent tous pour essayer de fonder leur collectif d'artistes).
Max bosse pas mal à l'exterieur, y'a qu'une clé, et j'ai un objectif à atteindre, alors je taffe pas mal à ...
F*** !!!!!
... had my busticket and they recommended me to get on the bus and sort out all of my stuff in Santiago. And so we did. With another 22 hours ahaed and without my passport, credit cards, camera, cellphone, coat, ... i got on the bus.
But we were so lucky with our busdriver. The three guys were so concerned with me and Anne that they immediately invited us in the cockpit for some chicken as dinner. They ...
Lush-ious, emu oil & jeans
things that i never expected to use as much as i do
aka thank goodness for last minute decisions
emu oil
my mom uses emu oil like the father in "my big fat greek wedding" uses windex. and i've converted....i use it for everything. face lotion, chapped lips, cuts, sunburns, and just for fun. and dana even thinks it smells good!
lush-ious soap
a friend suggested i bring soap that reminds me of home so whenever i take a shower i feel like ...
Day 61 – World’s largest copper mine
... 8217;t help but wonder what this area would look like if it were managed in Canada.
We were soon off to the plant site where we gained permission to actually enter into the massive open-pit mine. The pit is over 3 km wide and 5 km long, with future plans to extend to this mine to tie into smaller mines in the area for a total length of 15 km.
We toured the site at an interesting point where this hole that took 96 years ...