Following an evening in Santiago, Chile the thruple flew north to San Pedro de Atacama. The Atacama desert is known for incredibly clear night skies (due to little humidity and lack of development). Before we left, and during our time in San Pedro, northern Chile experienced a bunch of snow storms. Although San Pedro is a desert, it is set on an arid high plateau in the Andes mountains (2,400 meters). This made for a beautiful plane ride, but it also meant many of the attractions around San Pedro were closed. In fact it almost drastically impacted our tour to the Salar de Uyuni, but in the end was a blessing in disguise (more to come in a later post).
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| Snow capped mountains from the plane to San Pedro |
Similar to many of the towns we have traveled through, San Pedro is not much of anything. Rather, it is a jumping off point to otherworldly landscapes, flamingos, star gazing, and the Bolivian salt flats. So with a few days we made the most of it. We visited the Valle de la Muerte (climbing sand dunes) and Valle de la Luna (rock formations and sunsets), stargazed, and toured some ruins (a familiar theme).
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| Walking on a sand dune |
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| A definitely wanted to shred this (we did see other sandboarders) |
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| "And you may find yourself in another part of the world..." |
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| "And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?" |
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| Ruins of Pukara de Quitor |
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| In front of some impressively not-impressive rock formations |
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| Pancake rocks |
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| An addition to the thruple |
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| Sunset in Valle de la Luna |
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| We are so very small |
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| Max did not get the message to look up |
During our time in San Pedro we constantly found ourselves asking each other things like, "Can you believe we are in the Atacama Desert?" "Just think about where we are on a map right now...". It is really nowhere we thought we would ever be and looking back it still somewhat feels that way.
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