Geysers at dawn

We woke at an inhumane hour to get a tour of the geysers at dawn when they are most active. This area of Chile has 8% of the worlds geysers and it was a truly memorable experience watching the sun rise as the geysers unleashed their thermal waters into the morning air.

Playing in the sand!

April 5th 2015
As we were enjoying the wines of Mendoza our next destination, Northern Chile, was experiencing its worst flooding in decades. The Atacama desert is the driest desert in the world and areas in this region were receiving more rain in one day than the total average rainfall it receives in 4 years. As the rain continued unrelenting for several days the flooding intensified, roads were washed out, min ... read more

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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

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