After rushing through northern central Argentina, we finally made it back to Chile and to the desert, namely San Pedro. This was to be the start of our trip through to Bolivia and the Salt Flats.
As we were intent on having a relaxing time in San Pedro, we decided to sign up immediately to do EVERYTHING!
Firstly, we went to see some lakes with some flamingoes, but we haven't got any pictures of that so here is a "pan-oo" (aussie for panoramic) of another lake we saw.
We went to the famous moon valley on the second of our guided tours. After the first English/Spanish tour which was solo en Español (and felt like running before we could walk with our Spanish skills) we asked for an English speaking guide. We got Jorge, the 18 yr old whose first day it was. We explored on our own.
Sarah surveying her kingdom
You can see why its called the moon valley.
The next day was John's birthday and after the "success" of the first two tours we decided to solely do the geysers tour at 3am!!! We took our duvet and slept for most of the coach ride, but when we finally woke up the scenery was incredible.
We still haven't worked out why we had to see them at sunrise, they were still going in the afternoon!
John got a little bit excited and gassy on his birthday
We then had the largest slice of banoffee birthday pie (that fork is not a normal sized fork).
The best thing we did in San Pedro was star gazing. We both loved it. It was run by the French equivalent of Billy Bob Thornton from Armageddon. He knew everything, and his assistant had a laser pointer that touched all the stars!!! If you are ever in San Pedro, do the SPACE tour.
Us with the Milky Way
The view we had of Saturn
San Pedro was great and we loved almost every minute - 3am wake up calls will never become the norm - but we were there for one reason, to travel to the salt flats. World White travel and 9 new friends here we come.
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