Tuesday, February 10, 2009

San Pedro Attacama, Chile

I am going to try to upload some more photos from our past few days here in San Pedro....this is the most arid place on earth....less than 1.5 in. of rain a year....today our taxi (truck) driver said it rained 5 drops last year. But there are some oasises here...some snow melt must come down from the Andes to permit life.
We have seen 2 people from the US here...most are German travelers or from some other place in Europe and alot of Argentines and Chileans..this is their summer you know.
We have seen beautiful sunsets, ran down very steep and deep sand dunes in the Valley of Mars (Valley of Death we called it), seen beautiful Andean and Chilean flamingoes, avacets (birds), salt lakes, volcanoes....we do a wash in our lavatory , hang it out to dry...and usually in one hour bring it in....
Tomorrow we go see the gysers in the early a.m. and at 9pm go into the desert to see the stars...a guy has telescopes set up...really excited about that..
now to try photos...
karen

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