El Tatio gejziry/ El Tatio geysers

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Na dnes rano nas cakala navsteva vyhlasenej atrakcie San Pedra - Tatio gejziri. Najvacsou nevyhodou, teda aspon pre nas, bolo ze gejziri su aktivne iba rano medzi 7 a 8. A ano, hadate spravne znamenalo to dalsie skore vstavanie, tentoraz sme uz o 4 museli byt pripraveny pred vchodom do nasho kempu. Vylet zacal slubne, mikrobus prisiel na cas, sofer Felipe vyzeral prijemne a hovoril po anglicky, cesta bola asfaltova. Postupne sa vsak cesta zacala zhorsovat a nakoniec sme isli po piesku, zrazu sa Felipe rozhodol prestat nasledovat ostatne mikrobusy /z inych agentur/ a zabocil na inu cestu. Islo sa stale tazsie a tazsie az sme ostali stat zapadnuti v piesku. Felipe poprosil cestujucich, teda vlastne iba muzsku posadku, aby mu pomohla vytlacit mikrobus z piesku. Vonku bola hrozna zima, urcite pod nulou, autobus sa zabaral stale viac a viac a asi 100 metrov od nas sme mohli vidiet ostatne autobusy ako si uhanaju po ovela lepsej ceste. Pomali sme sa zacali lucit s navstevou gejzirou, ale Felipe navrhol aby sme vsetci isli na cestu /po piesku, do kopca, v treskucej zime to vyzeralo aspon ako kilometer/ a tu nam postupne zastavoval mikrobusy od inych agentur, ktore mali miesto a mohli nas zobrat. Nakoniec sme teda stastne dorazili. Tieto gejziri sa pysia titulom najvyssie polozenych na svete, ale ako sme zistili niesu to vlastne take tie tryskajuce stlpy vody a pary. Toto boli skor take jamy plne vriacej vody, kde tu diery v zemi z ktorych uchadzala para a okolo toho lad na zemi. Medzitym dorazil Felipe, ani sme necakali ze sa mu to podari tak skoro - trvalo mu to len dve hodiny.. Na ceste naspat sme sa este zastavili v malinkej dedinke nazvanej Machara. Zije tu sedem rodin a spolu vlastnia jednu kuchynu, v tej kazdy rok vari jedna rodina pre turistov a ma vsetky prijmy za ted rok. Stanik skusil lamie maso, vraj to chutilo ako divina a potom sa spolu so mnou rozplival nad malinkou dvoj dnovou lamou. Neskor sme mali velke stastie a videli suri, co je to juhoamericky druh pstrosa - jeste nieco ine nez nandu. Zvysok dna sme len tak prelezali pretoze bolo hrozne teplo a nic sa robit nedalo.

For today we had a visit of famous attraction of San Pedro - Tatio geysers. The main disadvantage is, or at least for us, that they are active just in the morning between 7 and 8. And, yes, it meant another very early waking up and we had to be ready for our minibus at 4am. Our trip started promisingly, our bus came on time, our driver Felipe looked friendly and could speak English, and the road was paved. Gradually it changed and later we were driving on sand. Suddenly Felipe made a decision to stop following other minibuses /another agencies/ and took a detour. It was still harder and harder to continue and in the end we got stuck in deep sand. Felipe ask the male passangers, to help him out and push the van. It was bitterly cold outside, definitely under zero, the bus was getting deeper into the sand and 100 metres away we could see another buses driving on a much better road. Slowly we were saying goodbye to the geysers, but then Felipe suggested to walk to that another road /on the sand, up the hill, in a freezing cold it looked like a kilometer/ and here he stopped another buses from different agencies for us. So in the end we luckily arrived. Those geysers also bear the title of the highest located in the world, but as we found out they are not high in height. Those were just holes filled with boiling water, or holes in the ground with steam getting out of them and few meteres away we could see ice on the ground. By that time Felipe arrived, which was a real surprise as we didnt expect him to get out so quickly - it took him just two hours. On the way back we stopped in a tiny village of Machara. They are only 7 families living here and they own one kitchen. Every year one of families cook in this kitchen for tourist and can keep all the profit. Stan tried a lama meat here and apparently it tasted like venison and then we both stroked 2 days old lama. Later we were really lucky and saw suri, which is a south american type of ostrich - not nandu though. For the rest of the day we just lied in our tent because it was too hot to do anything else.

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