South America Day 16

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28th January

There was nothing left for us in Caldera it was OK but we thought it better to push on North to San Pedro De Atacama. San Pedro is at 2500 meters above sea level so we would need time to acclimatize to the altitude so thought push on then stay there a couple of days.

It was another 11 hour bus journey to San Pedro so we left Calama & headed back to Copiapo to arrange a bus. The only bus available was the night bus leaving at 9.30pm which was good as it meant another night’s accommodation saved on the bus. The only problem was the 9 hours to waste in Copiapo before the bus left. We had a wander around not finding anything of any real interest bar the shady square. I found a left luggage and we dumped the bags for the day got some fruit & yoghurt and chilled on the square for the afternoon with a book (hard life isn't it?).

After doing some shopping to take to San Pedro we boarded the bus which again had reclining seats, snacks & a badly dubbed film.

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