As we said in the previous blog the difference between Bolivia and Chile hit us the very second we crossed that border... the landscape is pretty much the same just on the other side of the mountains but the roads, houses, food and most noticeably the price could not be more different. San Pedro de Atacama is one of the main routes in or out of Chile and most people just use it as a cross point to get up to Peru or Bolivia or further down to Chile or Argentina which is exactly what we were doing. In saying this, there is a farily major attraction close to the town and that would be the start of the driest place in the world.. The Atacama Desert, in some places this desert have never ever seen
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