Blogs from Atacama, Chile, South America - page 6

un bien triste titre, temporaire je l'espere...mais je ne peux continuer a cause de problemes techniques: mon ordinateur est hs, il ne s' allume plus et c est difficile sans lui, surtout pour les photos. petit resume: le W s' est bien passe (difficilement), faut vraiment que je vous raconte tellement c' etait beau. Depuis je suis allee a La Serena au nord de santiago pour les vignes de pisco et observer les etoiles, jupiter et saturne au telescope puis viree a valparaiso vendredi ou nous a rejoint beata,superbe egalement depuis lundi soir je suis a san pedro de atacama,au nord, aux frontières de la bolivie et de l'argentine,au milieu du desert, incroyable j'espere pouvoir raconter tout ca avant de rentrer (retour dans moins de 3 semaines maintenant...) melanie... read more

Hello again, I hope you are well and enjoying the snow! Here are some more photos, this time of Chile. We have found a great internet cafe so are making the most of it!!! Take care, Miss Thomas... read more

Hello Everyone, I hope you are well and all the Christmas plays, services and celebrations have gone or are going well. I am sorry I haven’t written for a while. We have been quite busy and our time in South America has quickly run out. Peru In the end we spent over 3 weeks in Peru. When we first arrived we were not sure if we would like the country as we staying in a town that was not very nice. However we quickly found some lovely places and realised our first impressions had been wrong. We spent a few days in Trujillo, a city in the north of Peru that has a colonial centre and lots of history near by. We were lucky enough to arrive when a ‘festival for teenagers’ was on. The set ... read more

The bus we caught from Santiago took 23 hour to reach a place called Calama, on our way to San Pedro de Atacama. Up until this point, our South American long-haul bus trips had not been very successful regarding the movie entertainment on offer. This trip started pretty well but soon deteriorated as the kilometres, and hours, wore on. The first movie was in English with Spanish subtitles; a really good Christian movie call Courageous about men committing themselves to being men of God who stand up for their beliefs and who lead by example for their family and friends. The Fast and the Furious soon followed, a no-brainer of a movie made even less interesting (or more interesting, I'm not sure) by the fact it was dubbed in Spanish with Spanish subtitles. Vin Diesel somehow ... read more

Hi All, Im sorry but have not been able to sit at a computer for a long time for a while so am having to do this blog from memory. After the salt flats I was dropped off at the Bolivian boarder and meet by a guy to take me across to Chile, you could instanly see that Chile has more money the Bolivia the roads and infrusture was much better. After I hour we reached a small building and I was told to join the queue for boarder control. After completing the normal forms and having my bags checked I got back in the car to go to San Pedro de Atacama after 5 mins I arrived in the centre and had to decide what to do. I booked into a hostel and was advised ... read more