Okay we apologize in advance for the hundred pictures on this post, but we just saw so much in the last week. We finished at San Pedro, and left on a three day excursion across the Atacama Desert to Bolivia. We hope you enjoy the photos!!
We rented bikes for the day to explore the sights around San Pedro, Chile. This is a fort outside of San Pedro used by the Tiwanaku around 500 AD.
The walls of their fort. It was a great location, with a great view of the valley.
Nick crawling through a cave under the fort called the devil´s cave.
Sculptures of two faces behind the fort, but these were added later (probably in the last ten years).
Sand and gravel hills forming the devil´s canyon. When it rains it causes them to erode and become jagged. It only rains every 50 years or so.
A tunnel built in 1930. We have no idea what it was used for since it is located in a very inaccesible spot. It hasn´t been used for some time though, since there was a huge rock blocking most of the tunnel that fell from the ceiling. We walked very quickly through this part!!
Nick standing beside a huge rock with cool swirly patterns on it. On the other side we found petroglyphs.
Some of the petroglyphs.
Death Valley, not as cool as Death Valley in the US though. It was extremely hard to ride our bikes through this!! You can´t tell, but it is all sand.
Entering the Valle de Luna. The valley is supposed to look like the surface of the moon. Everything in the valley was covered in salt.
A giant sand dune in the valley.
Us in the valley.
Tres Marias, which formed over a million years of erosion. The park makes them seem like a huge deal, but they were not really that impressive. They were like 10 feet tall.
Part of the valley.
Another dune in the valley.
The volcano right outside of San Pedro. We think it is either 5,600 or 5,800 meters high.
The border into Bolivia from Chile. It was cold and windy!!
Me trying to block the wind and stay warm while we waited for immigration.
The Green Lagoon. It looked like the Carribean.
Nick in a hot springs pool in the middle of the desert.
These are the ¨geysers¨we got to see. We don´t think they are really geysers, they are more like hot pots. The guide called them geysers, even though they do not erupt. They smelled of sulfur horribly though!
The mud boiling in one of the holes.
The Red Lagoon.
A baby flamingo.
A very fashionable llama enjoying herself by the Red lagoon.
Sunsetting in the desert.
Nick standing beside the tree of stone.
The painted hills.
A mountain reflecting in an ice covered lagoon.
Flamingos standing in a lagoon. Our guide told us during the winter the flamingos will freeze to the lagoon. We probably saw around 1000 flamingos all together in the three days.
A fox trying to join us for lunch. They were extremely brave and would even think about taking food right out of your hands.
A smoking volcano.
The Salt Hotel where we spent the second night. The hotel was really made of salt. The tables, chairs, walls, beds, and the floor.
Everyone we were traveling with relaxing.
The little kids in the tiny village performing a show for us with music, stories, and dancing. After they asked for money.
Sunrise on Salar de Uyuni. This salt flat is 12,000 square kilometers, and the depth of the salt can range from 20-80 cm. There is also water about 6 inches under the salt. The Atlantic Ocean used to cover this area, and be the bay of Bolivia.
Nick, Felix (our driver/guide), and me by our land cruiser.
Sunrise on the saltflat.
The vast salar.
Everyone was having loads of fun taking perspective photos on the salt flats. Here is one of ours.
Four of us standing on an orange. Yes they eat green oranges here, but they taste good.
The last thing we visited in our 3 day excursion across the desert was this train cemetery. These were the first trains ever used in Bolivia.
The boiler of one of the trains.
Here is a portion of the road we drove on.
Our first Bolivian bus we took from Uyuni to Potosí. You can´t read the windows but they say elegance, comfort, and security; in reality it was cramped, hot, and bumpy...but that is the fun of it! We took this bus over horrible wash board roads, through creeks, and up mountains.
The sky Potosí, Bolivia while we were waiting at the bus station.
Sucre, Bolivia at night from the roof of our hostel.
We rented bikes for the day to explore the sights around San Pedro, Chile. This is a fort outside of San Pedro used by the Tiwanaku around 500 AD.
The walls of their fort. It was a great location, with a great view of the valley.
Nick crawling through a cave under the fort called the devil´s cave.
Sculptures of two faces behind the fort, but these were added later (probably in the last ten years).
Sand and gravel hills forming the devil´s canyon. When it rains it causes them to erode and become jagged. It only rains every 50 years or so.
A tunnel built in 1930. We have no idea what it was used for since it is located in a very inaccesible spot. It hasn´t been used for some time though, since there was a huge rock blocking most of the tunnel that fell from the ceiling. We walked very quickly through this part!!
Nick standing beside a huge rock with cool swirly patterns on it. On the other side we found petroglyphs.
Some of the petroglyphs.
Death Valley, not as cool as Death Valley in the US though. It was extremely hard to ride our bikes through this!! You can´t tell, but it is all sand.
Entering the Valle de Luna. The valley is supposed to look like the surface of the moon. Everything in the valley was covered in salt.
A giant sand dune in the valley.
Us in the valley.
Tres Marias, which formed over a million years of erosion. The park makes them seem like a huge deal, but they were not really that impressive. They were like 10 feet tall.
Part of the valley.
Another dune in the valley.
The volcano right outside of San Pedro. We think it is either 5,600 or 5,800 meters high.
The border into Bolivia from Chile. It was cold and windy!!
Me trying to block the wind and stay warm while we waited for immigration.
The Green Lagoon. It looked like the Carribean.
Nick in a hot springs pool in the middle of the desert.
These are the ¨geysers¨we got to see. We don´t think they are really geysers, they are more like hot pots. The guide called them geysers, even though they do not erupt. They smelled of sulfur horribly though!
The mud boiling in one of the holes.
The Red Lagoon.
A baby flamingo.
A very fashionable llama enjoying herself by the Red lagoon.
Sunsetting in the desert.
Nick standing beside the tree of stone.
The painted hills.
A mountain reflecting in an ice covered lagoon.
Flamingos standing in a lagoon. Our guide told us during the winter the flamingos will freeze to the lagoon. We probably saw around 1000 flamingos all together in the three days.
A fox trying to join us for lunch. They were extremely brave and would even think about taking food right out of your hands.
A smoking volcano.
The Salt Hotel where we spent the second night. The hotel was really made of salt. The tables, chairs, walls, beds, and the floor.
Everyone we were traveling with relaxing.
The little kids in the tiny village performing a show for us with music, stories, and dancing. After they asked for money.
Sunrise on Salar de Uyuni. This salt flat is 12,000 square kilometers, and the depth of the salt can range from 20-80 cm. There is also water about 6 inches under the salt. The Atlantic Ocean used to cover this area, and be the bay of Bolivia.
Nick, Felix (our driver/guide), and me by our land cruiser.
Sunrise on the saltflat.
The vast salar.
Everyone was having loads of fun taking perspective photos on the salt flats. Here is one of ours.
Four of us standing on an orange. Yes they eat green oranges here, but they taste good.
The last thing we visited in our 3 day excursion across the desert was this train cemetery. These were the first trains ever used in Bolivia.
The boiler of one of the trains.
Here is a portion of the road we drove on.
Our first Bolivian bus we took from Uyuni to Potosí. You can´t read the windows but they say elegance, comfort, and security; in reality it was cramped, hot, and bumpy...but that is the fun of it! We took this bus over horrible wash board roads, through creeks, and up mountains.
The sky Potosí, Bolivia while we were waiting at the bus station.
Sucre, Bolivia at night from the roof of our hostel.
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All those pictures were so awesome all I can say about them is that I F-ing Love You!!!
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