We have just had four fabulous days in the Atacama desert in the North of Chile - really the highlight of the holiday so far. Far from not having enough to do, which slightly worried us, we have offered excursion after excursion into the desert, volcanoes, geysers, lagunae, canyons and salt flats, each incredibly varied - and always escorted in tiny groups (usually just us) by incredibly friendly guides who know the area like the back of their hands, as well as its geology, history, flora and fauna. So we´ve walked the salt flats with natural salt deposits that promise to be snowand then turn out to be salt, with amazing salt and gypsum crystals and owls nests; run the sand dunes )and watched horses run them); rock climbed (Marianne with some sense of panic) down
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