San Pedro de Atacama Chili
Trip Start
Mar 07, 2008
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Trip End
Jun 14, 2008
San Pedro de Atacama,
Chile
Monday, May 5, 2008
We are back after long vacation!
Well, let me tell you about the after Bolivia desert trip.
We went to Chile, San Pedro de Atacama, very hippy bohemian whatever you like. We were so happy to go back to descent temperatures like 20 degres, the sun and people happy to talk to you, more than the Bolivians from the highlands who were quite rough and not really talkative.
We stayed in a nice hostal, clean and stuff so it was luxury after the trauma of sleeping with -20 degres in the desert! But how expensive it was compare to Bolivia, what a shock
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!Anyway the best thing we did there was a night tour to watch the stars... yes, we had a 2 hours lecture (funny cos a mid forty french guy was the guide) about the sky at night and how to understand how this works: Constellations, Galaxies, planets..etc Very interesting and we got to watch lots of planets and stuff on massive telescopes. Saturn was mas favorite, it was so clear that we all had to check the lense to see if he didnīt draw on it!
The next day we left for Salta (Argentina) with a Chilean guy (Pancho) who is a real character: basically he wants to be a Yogi so very spiritual and different sharing the trip with him was revelating for some of us...like me who donīt eat meat anymore...( itīs full of bad and dead energies you see..)
All this was real fun, and for me it is a step close to Argentina and Bresil, my favorites!!
Ciao!
