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salar on the way to chileBack in chile, feels a bit like coming home as we spend most of our travel here.
The Paso de Jama from Purmarmaca in Argentina to San Pedro in Chile is just spectacular, fanatastic red rock formations, serpentines winding up the mountain to 4800 meters high, the road disappearing in the clouds, all white, breathless, very surreal. We saw the back half of a huge lorry in the air the front half balancing on the road, its' load was just too heavy. Made us a bit nervous to drive behind a lorry...
Then the other side all sunshine, the pure bright light of the altiplano, we passed vulcano Licanbur again, crossed salares until we reached San Pedro de Atacama.
Tourist-Gringo heaven this is. One restaurant next to the other and it was so good to eat normal food instead of the diarrhea-preventing-pizza-past-diet we were on in Bolivia.
San Pedro is an oasis in the Atacama desert, very hot during the day, freezing at night.
Cloudless nights, ideal to watch the stars, which we did under the guidance of a french astronomer and with the help of telescopes. Now proudly able to distinguish between the southern cross and orion. Highly psychedelic drugs must have been quite popular among the old astronomers though, gemini, the lion, for most of them it takes more than fantasy to see why they have that name..
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