Monday 12th October 2015 We started the day early with a 6am pick-up in this funny big bus truck. Everyone slept most of the way, the sun woke up, here was a bit of the landscape we saw outside of the window. First, we saw Laguna Miscanti. After all the pretty lakes we had seen … More Altiplano Lagunas and Valle de la Luna
Sunday 11th October 2015 We chilled out all day and I published a few blog articles I had prepared during the no-WiFi nights in the desert. I also finally got myself onto Trip Advisor to leave a few reviews about hostels, trips, dives, and so on! In the evening, we boarded a mini-bus full of … More Learning about the night sky with Alain Maury
Saturday 10th October 2015 When we left Hotel del Desierto, Laetitia and David were preparing their tandem bicycle, ready to shoot off too. We took off and here is one of the first thing we ran into. The road ahead of us. We stopped first at the “Pampas del Siloli” where we saw the “arbol … More Road Trip Day 5 – From Ojos de Perdiz to San Pedro de Atacama
Friday 9th October 2015 In the morning, there was a team of 4 guys of the “Paris Dakar” on their computers in the brekky area of the hostel who were preparing the itinerary of the Paris Dakar of December 2015. They do that by driving their 4WD on the dirt roads and checking how long … More Road Trip Day 4 – From San Pedro de Quemez to Ojos de Perdiz
Thursday 8th October 2015 I woke up around 5.30am and went out to take some sunrise photos. Tahua is located North of the Salar de Uyuni and the hotel where we were staying was quite next to it. The little hill nearby at dawn. Walking towards the church. View to the right, the Salar is … More Road Trip Day 3 – From Tahua to San Pedro de Quemez
Wednesday 7th October 2015 Here was the view from the hostel in Colchane from my window in the morning. Eduardo gave us a couple of papers to fill that we would need to cross the Chili – Bolivia border. Jeez that was the most paper heavy border I had seen so far! Off we went … More Road Trip Day 2 – From Colchane to Tahua
Tuesday 6th October 2015 Today my dad turned 70!!! In Putre. Whoohoo!!! We setup the table with gifts and the brownie with the 2 candles ready to lit up. I asked Daria, Thomas and Melissa if they were up for singing when he was entering. He entered the brekky room, we started singing happy birthday, … More Road Trip Day 1 – From Putre to Colchane
Monday 5th October 2015 In the morning we had brekky and then jumped in the car of Eduardo and off we were to the Lauca National Park to see the Chungara lake and a few more things. Here is a map of the park. You can see on it also where Socoroma is, next to … More Lauca National Park
Sunday 4th October 2015 I woke up early in Arica at the Sunny Days hostel, ready to head for the bus off to Putre. Ross prepared an awesome brekky for me in the morning. Here was the table and the surroundings, don`t you feel like at home looking at this shot? Much more cosy than any … More Socoroma Village Party
Saturday 3rd October 2015 I woke up around 5am and the first thing I did was to check out tips online about the border crossing between Peru and Chile. Sometimes, border crossing can be tricky, sometimes stressful. Better know which scams to avoid, if there is any! I found this really good detailed explanation of … More Arequipa to Arica
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