Monday Memories – Atacama

Oh the good old days, when A. I had savings and B. I blew them all hopping around Chile and beyond…

Money well spent…

San Pedro de Atacama

San Pedro de Atacama

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Heat, salt, and endless blue skies define San Pedro de Atacama; it is a place of grand scale beauty, unfathomable until you have seen it with your own eyes.

On this trip, I have never felt a stronger desire to preserve and protect the world in which we live. I want my grandchildren to stand where I have and feel the gratitude that I have felt. I want them to know what it means to live and how great this world truly is.

Laguna Piedra

After 25 hours in bus, traveling up Chile’s spine, our first destination was Laguna Piedra, where one can stand up straight in the water and not sink. Similar to the Dead Sea, Laguna Piedra’s high concentration of salt allows for the phenomenal experience of effortless floating; you literally cannot sink.

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Sunset in one beautiful place, the next day sunrise in another.

Tatio Gysers

About a two hour drive from San Pedro on a desert road that shakes the body to its core, mystic plumes of smoke and sulfuric fumes fill the air. At 4,320 meters above sea level, the Tatio Geysers is the highest geothermic field in the world; and an amazing sight to behold as the 185 degree waters hit the cold morning air.

Kendal at the Tatio Gysers
Dressed in thermal underwear and layers of clothing, I was prepared for negative temperatures, which did in fact occur. However, what I forgot was that these frigid temperatures I had read and heard about were in Celsius; therefore the -2 degree temperature when we first arrived was really only 28.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

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You never know what you’re going to encounter in this life….

Valle de la luna

This same trip include my wonders into Bolivia.

Money well spent.

 

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