SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, CHILE
After an amazing journey through the salt flats, we arrived in Chile on Saturday. Fairly easy border crossing, besides them taking our oranges and bananas. What a culture shock leaving Bolivia and entering Chile. We heard that Chile was the most American like country, but we didn't expect so close to stateside prices too. $40 for a hostel, come on! That's like motel 6 prices. Anyways, we stayed in a desert town called San Pedro in the Atacama desert, the driest desert in the world. The town kinda reminds us of Santa Fe, or some other southwestern city. We booked a tour for our second day, to go sandboarding and check out some caves in the parque. What a blast that was! Sandboarding is like snowboarding but you dont go as fast, and chairlifts are replaced by your hiking legs. The caves were cool too and we hiked up a dune to watch the sunset! More Chile updates to come!
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| San Pedro church |
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| See the "insert SW city " resemblance |
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| Their flag almost looks like the Texas flag |
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| Sandboarding time! |
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| Our sandboarding crew |
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| Park in middle of town |
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| Future spellunkers! |
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| Volcano in the background |
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| Sunset |
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| We're flying! |
Sandboarding looks like SO much fun!!!! I love following your journey! Love you guys!!!
ReplyDeleteThink of me when you're drinking that good Chilean wine:) Love you!
ReplyDeleteHey guys I heard on the news tonight that there was a 6.2 earthquake today centered around 250 miles north of Santiago....did you feel it?
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures. Loved the sunset picture. Kinda spiritual.
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