San Pedro

Saturday 25/8 and Sunday 26/8 - SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA

Moon Valey and Death Valey (25/8).

The Hostal "Puritama", my room built with adobe bricks.

In this "gringo town" all of the buildings are either hostal, travel agency,

pizzeria, souvenir shop, bar, restaurant, food shop...

and all costs twice as much here as anywhere else.

Another "typical" street of San Pedro.

The lunch restaurant, surprisingly not that expensive:

menu at 5000$ (~8€) for starter + main dish + desert + wine.

San Pedro's church on the main square.

Again with a lot of colorful saint statues.

And with a priest-businessman too.

Moon Valley and Death Valley

The Death Valley.

Coyote Point.

Entrance to the Moon Valley.

Where is Michel?

Back on earth.

The Moon Valley: desert until the volcanoes at the horizon.

Sunset observation point.

Sunset.

200km tour to the Geyser del Tatio (26/8).

Entering the National Parc (15000CH$, ~30US$)

A lot of steam everywhere.

And a salty hot hot spring.  Great!

But hard to get out... it was freezing -5degC.

A rare Zorro Culpeo (Desert Fox).

A talking Vigogna skull, rare as well.

Quite common Viscachas (a kind of Chinchilla).

Another cosy natural pool where we could spend 45 minutes.

Just a road sign underway.

Church od Machuca, village allong the return road.

A nice canyon along the return road.

Right place for some yoga exercises.

The dream team of that day (next to me, the guide)

Embracing a 400 years old cactus (grows 1cm/year).

 Youpi Youpi Yeah!  What a nice day!

Time for a (late) lunch,

followed by the famous 24 hours bus journey to Santiago.

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