Blogs from Chañaral, Atacama, Chile, South America

28.11.2011 Antofagasta After dropping Lesley off at the airport, we headed back into town to get our Car papers so we can leave the country. We had to search for a while to find the registrario civil, and when we finallz found it, they told us that we have to wait another 21 days for the papers to be in the system..just another example of how slow and complicated south america is.. well,we decided to sleep on the beach tonight and head to San Pedro de Attacama tomorrow. We went to the cinema later on to whatch the newest Twilight, breaking dawn part 1, Matt fell asleep...lol Then we parked our car up outside a hotel directly on the beach and got ready to go to sleep..when we were all tucked up in bed, we realized ... read more

Since I last wrote, we have been taking life at a slightly slower pace, well that is until we climbed a 6056m volcano yesterday but more on that later. 20 November (day 27) - Travelling to Mendoza There is something slightly crazy about flying from Bariloche to Mendoza via Buenos Aires (if you look on a map you will see why), but that is what we had to do. We turned up at the airport slightly early as we knew giving back the car could take a while, only to find that our flight was at 12.30pm and not 11.30am - nice of them to tell us. Handing back the car was fairly easy, just quite costly. First the man read the clock wrong and tried to say we had driven 800km further than we had, ... read more

Alors lundi soir nous sommes partie en dirrection du Salar de Uyuni. Apres environ 12 heures dautobus sans dormir (puisque les gens derrière nous étaient trop grand pour baiser nos bancs) et que la ride etait sur une route style machine a laver... :( ) nous sommes finalement arrivés à Uyuni. Uyuni est un petit village avec pas grand chose appart quelques hotels, restos et des compagnies de tours organisées pour aller visiter le Salar. Nous avons donc décidé de ne pas y rester pour la nuit mais plutot de commencer tout de suite notre expédition de 3 jours dans le Salar se terminant à San Pedro de Atacama (Chili). Le tour était bien mais nous étions un peu épuisé après 3 jours. Le premier jour consiste a voir le desert de sel qui est ce ... read more

Dag 71 og 72. Vaskedamen paa Sunny Days kom lopende mot oss da vi var paa vei til frokost, og takket oss nok en gang for maten hun hadde faatt igaar. Ungen hennes hadde elsket den. Det de ikke var klar over var at det var over 20 fedd hvitlok i gryten - saa vi var ikke de eneste som stinket hvitlok idag... I dag skulle i faa postet premien til Trond. Vi gikk til byen, Ross hadde fortalt at pakker som skulle sendes utenlands maatte kontrolleres (innholdet) for de ble sendt. Det er ikke alltid like lett aa faa sendt ting, postkontoret selger stort sett ikke annet enn frimerker (ikke konvolutter engang). Denne gangen fikk vi ikke sendt premien fordi at fortollings-kontrollorene kun hadde kontordag mandager og onsdager. Vi spiste italiensk pizza til lunsj, ikke ... read more