A mere 12 hours after leaving white sandy beaches, and two bus changes later, we arrived in the driest desert in the world, the Atacama Desert. Our destination was a town called San Pedro De Atacama, and at a height of 2440 metres above sea level, it was our first experience of being at altitude so far. Now San Pedro makes its claim to fame as being the tourist, archaeological and astronomical capital of Chile and we soon realised why. Valleys, geysers, sand dunes, mountains, lakes, and everything in-between are all features of the surrounding area. So after a quick nap, we signed up for an afternoon of sand boarding in the nearby “Death Valley” (sounds promising hey?). Having never done it before, we had a blast trying to surf down 120 metre sand dunes, tumbling,
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