We have finally left Argentina, and are in Northern Chile. We made some great friends and did some amazing things there, but it is good to be moving on. Who would have thought I’d get sick of steak every day?
On the way North we stopped at Salta which is a really great city.
We both had a cold here so didn’t really do much other than wander round, which was nice enough. From Salta we got the bus to San Pedro De Atacama, and the view was epic.
San Pedro De Atacama is an oasis town in the Atacama Desert and is catastrophically beautiful
As are the surrounding areas, with some amazing geological phenomena
We are very high here at 2500 metres, and has you can see from all the volcanoes we are in a geothermally active area so have been on a tour to hang out with some proper geezers at 4300 meters (Matterhorn height) which makes breathing, hearing, thinking etc quite hard.
We have also seen some remote little villages, some unique cacti and other amazing deserty stuff:
We have absolutely loved this part of the trip, it is an incredible part of the world and I would recommend it to anyone.
Tomorrow we start a 3 day 4×4 drive across the salt flats into Bolivia, from where I shall update again. Until then, blame the altitude.
Just before I go, a couple of new entries for “New Stuff I Like”:
18) Llama Kebabs. Hmmm. Weird and meaty…..
19) Dune Boarding. I couldn’t make skiing this year, but this kind of helped.
