After spending Christmas in Punt Arenas we headed back up to the north of Chile to continue our journey. WE covered 10 of the 12 regions in 48hrs, not bad considering it is the longest country in the world. So we ended up in San Pedro de Atacama. The driest or highest (I can´t remember) desert in the world. It was a shock waking up in the desert. We caught an overnight bus and the terrain still had vegetation etc in it, but when I woke on the bus it was just sand, sand sand, the occasional rock, sand and more sand. After getting used to being in the Atacama desert, we settled into our hostel. The coolest thing about San Pedro is the style of the building. They are still built with mud and only
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