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El Tatio Geysers, suris and vicunas in the Atacama Desert and Santiago

PeakImages — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:53:55 +0000

El Tatio Geysers, Atacama Desert, Chile

This morning’s a very early start – Williams collects us at 0400 for a two hour trip to the El Tatio Geysers, some 100km away down mostly very rough sand and rock roads. The geysers [...]

Quitor Fortress, Aldea de Tulor, San Pedro de Atacama, Tocoano and the Flamingoes of Laguna Chaxa

PeakImages — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:30:24 +0000

Pukara de Quitor - the historical fortress of the Atacama people, Chile

The next morning we visit the Fortress of Quitos, in the neighbouring village less than 1km away from San Pedro – where the local peaceful Atacamanean people made their last stand against the invading Spanish in [...]

Hotel Altiplanico and Valley de la Luna in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

PeakImages — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:34:55 +0000

Having left Iguazu from the Argentinian side, we have a day of travelling via Buenos Aires to get to Santiago late in the evening. We can’t get any further that day, so we are taken to the Hotel Orly on the far side of town (pre-arranged by the tour co [...]

Coatis and The Iguacu/Iguazu Falls from both the Brazilian and Argentinian sides

PeakImages — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:13:43 +0000

Now I fly from Mendoza to Iguazu Falls airport in Argentina – to meet up with my mum who’s joining me for this leg of the trip. It’s a domestic flight, but fortunately they’re friendly about not applying the miniscule 5kg limit of hand luggage on domestic flights today!

Thundering through Quijadas National Park

PeakImages — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:06:35 +0000

In the end I couldn’t go past Quijadas National Park at nearly sunset without trying to get some pictures and see the red rocks glowing at sunset. It was a bit later than I’d intended by the time I got there, as it had taken longer than I’d anticipated from San Juan.