San pedro de atacama - yannick

Many many many adventures here....and it all started when we got picked up by our hostel owner........

.....when i saw the van he was taking us to the hostel in....i was wondering if we made the right choice booking that hostel. the hostel owner´s name was Mario, as soon as we got out of the bus we saw him with a sign with papa´s name and X3 next to it. The hostel was not at all bad, much more clean and all that than the van. It was an open air place...and it was huge. We got our room and we asked Mario where Uyuni tour companies were and which ones to take. We spent the day looking for the best deals, and which we were comfortable with. Eventually we chose the company Coirdillera, as i said in the blog before. We walked around and realized that we should book a tour to the geysers now because the tour started at like 4 am!!!!!! The first place we went to was the one we picked...because it was the cheapest. all the tours were like 15000 chilean pesos but the lady in the first office gavi it to us at 12000 because she did not like her boss :-). We woke up at 3 30 am and got ready by 3 55. We stood outside the gate and waited till 4 30 untill our van came ( apparently the others that were waiting had to wait till 5. ) and it was packed. We reached the geyser field at 6 so i got some sleep..but apparently the road was too rocky for the others to sleep. The first thing our guide told us was not to cross the stones that were around the geyser because if you do you could die. I was not to excited about the dying part of the news because the geysers were so amazing ,that i thought, while i would be gaping at them i would walk backwards into one and die a horrible death. The geysers were really amazing.... it was exactly how i thought it would be, although i thought i could sit on one just before it erupted and then go up into the air with it...that would be cool. The next thing was the thermal pool...it was supposed to be 30 to 35 degrees centigrade in the pool. I could not wait to get in as it was freezing outside....but once i got in....i double froze. buit later on i found a warm spot and it was good. We then went to a village which was not like a village..it was small but it was completely urban. I got to eat llama meat.

 The next day we went to the pre inca ruins. It was hard to get to as there were many roads to chose from but eventually we found it. The main trek up was not hard...probably 45 mins. But that was worth it. the view was amazing. we could see the highway going to bolivia, sasnd dunes and salt dune kinda things. It was great.

The day after that we went to valley of the moon and we were the luckiest people in the world. In san pedro there are 6 cloudy days in the year and we got one of them.:-(. The tour was a disaster as the co9mpany did not send a tour guide with us so we almost got thrown out of a plac3e for climbing a dune that we were not supposed to. we did it cos we did not know how to go, But the whole thing was beautiful.

Once we got back our friends Maree and Clint had prepared an amazing dish with all kinds of things in it. It was amazing. It was a good way to end our days in San pedro