We have just spent three hot sweaty balz days in San Pedro De Atacama Desert and 4 cold shrinkage nights. It has been fun but we are leaving tomorrow to head back to our love of Argentina. CHEAPER TIMES TO BE HAD BY ALL!
But what we did here in the Desert first.......
Hiking about 9 miles to some incan ruins in the hot sun soaking ourselves in every possible dirty water source we came by DAMN DID IT FEEL GOOD. The ruins are little ones compared to what Cassie will be seeing in PERU!!
The next day we searched the town over for deals for tours with Bikes and to the so called wonderful, amazing, dead sexy geysurs. We finished with renting a bike for 9 hours for 6 bucks and we biked about 30 to 40 miles in the sun checking out lil adobe villages in the surrounding and then biked to the VALLE de Luna. You will see in the pics why they say this. We hiked a lil through salt canyon. Then went and watched the sun set from these huge fantastic dunes with about 400 people. Crowded but amazing!!! You can see the mountains changing colors and the moon rising as the sun went down. One the most picturesque moments ever seen by human eyes! Then we biked home with only the moon as our guide.
We ordered a 1.5 liter of Pap which is POP/soda that quenched our sun drenched bodies. Ate food then slept
We awoke at 3:30 am to have our tour pick us up at our campsite and we drove 2 hours to about 13,500 ft to the highest geysur field in the world and watched the steam and water and everything else rise including the sun. Then ate a breakfast of hard boiled eggs that were cooked in the geysur with a cheese sandwich and snacks with hot drinking products because it was the cold shrinkage morning. Then we all got naked and jumped into the thermal pool that was cooling than the ones that were boiling... when in Chile, do as the chileans, right?... just kidding, we did peel off our 4 layers of clothes in the frosty air and jump in, in our bathing suits like everyone else. As you can see by the picture, these two gentleman got a little carried away. It sure felt good to be in that water, but getting out was another story! Then we moved on to look at wild animals LLAMAs and Vicunas and rabbits and birds.
We arrived at a town where we ate llama kabobs and frybread from the native people of the area. Arriving back at 12:30.
Then this place is a small place the generators went out for the town so the town had no power for about 2 hours or so. Funny to be in a remote location where that happens. Now we are typing and telling you we are off like a prom dress to Salta Argentina tomorrow. Chat with you on the flippity floppity side.
Love you all
T & C
But what we did here in the Desert first.......
Hiking about 9 miles to some incan ruins in the hot sun soaking ourselves in every possible dirty water source we came by DAMN DID IT FEEL GOOD. The ruins are little ones compared to what Cassie will be seeing in PERU!!
The next day we searched the town over for deals for tours with Bikes and to the so called wonderful, amazing, dead sexy geysurs. We finished with renting a bike for 9 hours for 6 bucks and we biked about 30 to 40 miles in the sun checking out lil adobe villages in the surrounding and then biked to the VALLE de Luna. You will see in the pics why they say this. We hiked a lil through salt canyon. Then went and watched the sun set from these huge fantastic dunes with about 400 people. Crowded but amazing!!! You can see the mountains changing colors and the moon rising as the sun went down. One the most picturesque moments ever seen by human eyes! Then we biked home with only the moon as our guide.
We ordered a 1.5 liter of Pap which is POP/soda that quenched our sun drenched bodies. Ate food then slept
We awoke at 3:30 am to have our tour pick us up at our campsite and we drove 2 hours to about 13,500 ft to the highest geysur field in the world and watched the steam and water and everything else rise including the sun. Then ate a breakfast of hard boiled eggs that were cooked in the geysur with a cheese sandwich and snacks with hot drinking products because it was the cold shrinkage morning. Then we all got naked and jumped into the thermal pool that was cooling than the ones that were boiling... when in Chile, do as the chileans, right?... just kidding, we did peel off our 4 layers of clothes in the frosty air and jump in, in our bathing suits like everyone else. As you can see by the picture, these two gentleman got a little carried away. It sure felt good to be in that water, but getting out was another story! Then we moved on to look at wild animals LLAMAs and Vicunas and rabbits and birds.
We arrived at a town where we ate llama kabobs and frybread from the native people of the area. Arriving back at 12:30.
Then this place is a small place the generators went out for the town so the town had no power for about 2 hours or so. Funny to be in a remote location where that happens. Now we are typing and telling you we are off like a prom dress to Salta Argentina tomorrow. Chat with you on the flippity floppity side.
Love you all
T & C
3 comments:
Outrageously cool!!! It was great talking to you over the weekend. The pictures and commentary are great fun. (What were those naked boys thinking?) Almost as good as being there with you. Love you, Mom and Dad B.
I am loving reading all about your trip! It sounds amazing. We are all doing well in Colorado and look forward to hearing about your next stop.
From far away, I thought the 2 naked peeps were the two of you...thanks for not giving me a visual!! Keep enjoying it all!!
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