Sunday, July 29, 2007

Stuck in Chile - its chilly here...

As was suggested to us (in many guide books and lametayel and many people) we finished our 3 days tour in Chile, in San Pedro de Atacama. oh well - that was a mistake...
on the first day we got here, we´ve been punched with too many problems and expectations been shuttered to pieces.
This tourist town, I swear, has a mafia to steal the tourists money as fast as possible and in any way possible. and it does! Hotel prices start at $40 a night, and its basically a shack without even heating or breakfast not included! and meals? NY prices! and this town doesnt even have paved roads, its all dusty everywhere you go... amazing.
so you can imagine how upset I was, when after 3 days of no shower at all, they shot down the whole water system in this little town, and i had no shower for another day! raging!
And then, no bus to leave here when we wanted.. and then Michael got sick... not a very good day to be honest...

The next day we moved to a different hotel (with smart people and a water tank of their own) and the sun started shining.
Since Michael was sick, I joined James (our friend from the Salars tour) to do some half-day trips around SP de Atacama. We saw giant salt mountains, and the Valley of the Moon (pics attached of the sunset and with the moon) and more big geysers, and weird animals (like this rabbit with horse tail and dog ears), and medicin plants and beautiful views.

Will leave here on Tuesday to go to Argentina (finally) - to Salta!

1 comment:

Zohar said...

Southern Chili is much nicer! (though probably too cold this time of year)

Take some time in Mendoza (Arg) and visit their wineries.