I left Cusco on a bus on Wednesday at 8pm then got to Arequipa and then went to Tacna, crossed the border in a car, then took a bus to Calama and then San Pedro de Atacama and finally got there at about 10 am two days later on Friday.
I was pretty tired on Friday but I spent the day wandering around San Pedro de Atacama and checking out the little town. San Pedro de Atacama is really a tourist town that does not have very much to do other than go on tours to the surrounding areas, which is abundant with different facinating things to see. San Pedro de Atacama is an adobe town in the middle of the desert surrounded by volcanos. I think San Pedro is definitely a nice place to visit for a couple days, but a couple days is enough time. It was extremely hot there and in the summer (which is the season in Chile right now) the sun sets very late. It was a very unique town to check out and walk around!
I chose to take tours to the Geysers and to Laguna Cejar. For the Geyser tour we had to wake up at 330 in the morning and we got there before the sun rose. The Geysers were interesting and we had a really good tour guide. We saw a bunch of animals which was really cool and we went to the hot springs.
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| squirrel tail |
I don't remember the name of it but we saw an animal that had the ears of a rabbit and the tail of a squirrel. It is my new favorite animal, it was so funny! The views on drive back of the volcanoes were amazing and we stopped in a tiny town for some really good empanadas!
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| Laguna Cejar |
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| Friends from Venezuela, Brazil, and Chile |
The same day, after a quick nap I went to the tour of Laguna Cejar. Laguna Cejar has so much salt that you float on the surface which I think is a lot cooler than it sounds. It was so fun just floating there and relaxing in the water. The water has so much salt that when you get out you're completely white because you have so much salt on you. Everyone was also giving themselves a natural mudbath and covering themselves with mud which I learned is skin rejuvenating. Between the Laguna and the mudbath it was a really fun and relaxing trip! On my tour, I met a couple from Venezuela that is living in Santiago and two boys that are my age from Brazil and we all went to dinner after our tour was over. The couple from Venezuela are engineers and extremely warm people. Dinner was really fun and interesting because we were talking about different aspects of our cultures and countries like our education and university systems. I really enjoyed my time with them and we were all going to be in Santiago on Monday so we made plans to meet up there for a BBQ.
I felt I had spent enough time in San Pedro de Atacama by the next day and I just hungout and then I was off on my next bus to Santiago at 2pm!
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