Well folks, I have made it out of Argentina after 5 wks of seeing what I am going to call a fair amount of what that country has to offer and am now in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Yes Chile. Again.
In order to arrive in SP de Atacama I was on a 12 hour bus ride that rose to 4,100 meters. No wonder I was sucking air a little. Thankfully I was not ill though and the town of Atacama is only at 2,400M so I have been okay. Absolutely HATED my hostel when I arrived so have had to move each of my three nights. Seems places that are even remotely decent are mostly booked and tomorrow I leave for my three day trip through Bolivia´s Salt Flats in Uyuni. Above right photo is of the MUCH smaller salt flats in Argentina which we passed through on the bus ride here. Stunning and once again I need to write a letter to the window makers of these buses. They really don´t get in the way of what you see or photograph.
Here´s a recap of what I got up to in my 3 additional days in Chile... Day one I visited the Valley of the Moon and basically went to about 5 different locations where nature has made some pretty incredible formations. They have names like the Three (or 2.5 Mary´s) which are said to look like ladies praying and the Valley of the Moon (as I mentioned.) Which shows how the glaciers have moved and carved the mountains etc all around Atacama. It´s all pretty damn stunning and I don´t think my camera is doing any of this justice because it is all just so vast but again here´s a glimpse from the camera Shan so graciously donated to my continuous adventures. 
Day two started at 4am... yes 4am and took us up to 4,700Meters where we had to bundle up like we were about to board the peak to peak chair at Whistler to ensure we would be in place for 7am when the geisers ¨went mental¨ in technical terms. It was pretty fun to watch all the different kinds of geisers that there are but I will admit I was not sure ¨where I was¨or ¨how I got there¨at about 5am when I was freezing my tail off in the pitch black wobblying around in a mini bus. 
One definite perk was that we got to hop into the thermal baths after the sun finally came up so we all managed to get warm again before the lengthly drive back. I shouldn´t sound so grumbly considering it is scenes like the below that we were passing through the entire time. 
Of course there was some wildlife thrown in as well for good photographing measure. 
Okay gang I just spent WAY too much time at an internet cafe becasue none of the three hostels I have stayed at in this town seem to have a hostel computer that works. Yes I´ll be including this in my comment card at the end of each stay.
Here´s hoping you are all as well and happy as I was when the below image was snapped! Off to
Bolivia in the morning!
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