Atacama Desert
November 20th 2012 Travelled from the snowy mountains of Southern Patagonia to the dust and warmth of the Atacama Desert in the north of Chile via Santiago. Our base was San Pedro de Atacama, a small oasis village of clay-coloured adobe houses and dirt streets and here we stayed for 3 days exploring the area.
San Pedro is 2436 metres above sea level and every now and again altitude sickness kicked in and to help
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