Hotel Geyser del Tatio

$82 a night very good location

But the room kinda… sucks

Has a tiny swimming pool

Minimum breakfast

Minimum breakfast

Caracoles - the main street in San Pedro de Atacama

Tulor

Tulor is the oldest vestige of an inhabited place in the Atacama Salt Flat

Restored circular mud structure

Wood are hard to find in desert

Remains of the Tulor settlement (800 BC)

Foundation of the original mud house

Me @ Tulor

Interesting mountains enroute

Pukara of Quitor

Mom @ Quitor

Quitor is a stone fortress

River San Pedro

Not sure I will wash my car here

Amazing landscape

Quite a hike to get to the top

Quitor

Me @ Quitor

Large rocks alternating with smaller ones

Quitor

San Pedro Church

Seem to me a very heavy necklace

Cactus spike as tooth picker?

A buried living structure

Mom & I @ Museo Arqueologico Padre La Paige

Fast food joint in San Pedro de Atacama

The only food I can order in spanish is chicken and fries

Hotel Altiplanico

A MUCH MUCH MUCH better hotel

Garden outside our room

Our room

Patio outside for stars watching

Two showers - indoor & outdoor

$200 a night!

Lookout of surrounding small hills with impressive sharp ridges

Lookout

Rock packed with different layers of minerals

Valle de la Muerte aka Valley of the Death

I wanted to do sandboarding!

Valle de la Muerte

Impress sand dune

Mom @ Tres Marias

Geological formations caused by successive foldings of the earths crust

Me @ Tres Marias

Tres Marias

Tres Marias

Tres Marias surrounding

Salt gem precious crystal produced
under high pressure in dry environment

Sand dune

Tres Marias

Duna Mayor

Me @ Duna Mayor

No walking on Duna Mayor

Sharp ridges on the other side of the dune

Valley of the Moon

Me @ Duna Mayor

Duna Mayor & Valley of the Moon

Duna Mayor

Sunset @ Duna Mayor

Me @ Duna Mayor

Me @ Duna Mayor

Valley of the Moon

Me @ Valley of the Moon

Do you agree it looks like the surface of moon?

Duna Mayor

Mom @ Duna Mayor

Another chicken meal

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