El Tatio Geyser Field, Chile Photo 3

El Tatio Geyser Field, Chile

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May 26th 2008
El Tatio Geyser Field is in the Andes Mountain range and quite a treck to get to. We woke up at 3am to catch a 4am van. They told us to dress warm, but that did not prepare us. It was miserably cold compounded by altitude adjustment. It was well worth it as the sun began to come up and we could see 80 geysers shooting upward causing the landscape to look unreal. The pictures do not do it jus ... read more

South America » Chile » Antofagasta Region » San Pedro de Atacama

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Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more