Recharged from our little holiday time we set off for the Chilean town of San Pedro set in the Atacama desert, it’s a small little town with a great chilled vibe to it even if it is over run with tour agencies, ageing hippies, dreadlocked jugglers (do all people with dreads think they should juggle or do people who can juggle suddenly think they should grow dreads?!?) and stray dogs (like everywhere in this continent!) – kinda cool though. Problem with this town being in the middle of nowhere though is that they get to charge you what ever they want for anything, so the price of a hostel room, a beer, lunch etc was all a lot more expensive than we had been use to paying having come from the cheapness of the Bolivia or Peru! We only stayed a few days but to be honest it was all you needed, in that time we managed to visit the Valley de Luna and watch an amazing sunset, trek in the sand dunes, visit a geyser field (that’s not a field full of blokes by the way!) at dawn keeping warm by standing near the steam coming out of the geysers hoping that it didn’t suddenly shot 80 degree water at you and went to see some stunning lagoons – oh and best of all, in the evening you got to relax with an overpriced beer, well if you can call paying about £1.25 overpriced for a litre bottle, sitting next to a fire pit under the stars.
Wanderlust for Life
Adventure travel around the world