ÿþ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Day 4-5, The Atacama Desert, Chile</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <span class="textbg">Day 4-5, The Atacama Desert, Chile (34 images)</span><br> <span class="textsm"></span> <p class="desc"><p><span class="textreg">Click a picture to see a larger view.</span><br> <span class="textreg"><br><br> <a href="../Day%206-8,%20South-Western%20Bolivia/index.html">Go to next index page: Day 6-8, South-Western Bolivia</a> <br><br></span> <hr size="1"> <a href="target0.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0180.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="080. After landing in Calama airport. I think they only had one landing strip. From there we drove to San Pedro de Alacama, which is a town founded during the Inca rule, in one of the few oasis' in the area, in the 15th century." border="0"></a> <a href="target1.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0196.jpg" width="154" height="88" title="084. New houses set up for workers travelling to the area." border="0"></a> <a href="target2.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0246.jpg" width="154" height="93" title="086. Street in San Pedro de Alacama. The town lies in an oasis in the Atacama desert, at an elevation of abt. 2400 m." border="0"></a> <a href="target3.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/chilebolivia_019.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="087. Lunch." border="0"></a> <a href="target4.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0251.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="089. The church in San Pedro." border="0"></a> <a href="target5.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0369.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="090.  Palm Sunday , before Easter - but too late for mass." border="0"></a> <a href="target6.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/chilebolivia_135.jpg" width="154" height="122" title="091. Some official building in San Pedro - but I can't remember which." border="0"></a> <a href="target7.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0373.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="093. Main square, San Pedro. The house on the right is presumable the oldest in the town and from abt. the middle of the 16th century." border="0"></a> <a href="target8.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0202.jpg" width="152" height="154" title="095. A guanaco. Un-domesticated member of the camel family. A family, which, in South America also includes the vicuna, the llama and the alpaca. Guanacos live in the lower regions, typically below 3000 m." border="0"></a> <a href="target9.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0215_16_17.jpg" width="154" height="57" title="097. View over the Atacama desert." border="0"></a> <a href="target10.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0213.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="098. Same place." border="0"></a> <a href="target11.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0226.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="100. And again. Note the little bit of snow on the mountains in the background. It's a bit unusual as there's hardly any permafrost in this region, even at very high altitudes because it's simply too dry. This year, it had rained/snowed several times in the winter season though." border="0"></a> <a href="target12.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0221.jpg" width="154" height="122" title="102. More view." border="0"></a> <a href="target13.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0253.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="105. So-called  Dinosaur valley - named so because of the wavy formations that can be glimpsed in the middle of the photo. We drove right past them, but it was difficult to get a good photo." border="0"></a> <a href="target14.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0258.jpg" width="154" height="129" title="106. Valle de la Muerte." border="0"></a> <a href="target15.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0264.jpg" width="154" height="104" title="108. Valle de la Muerte." border="0"></a> <a href="target16.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0261.jpg" width="154" height="105" title="110. Valle de la Muerte - I think... but we also stopped at one or two places I never got the name of." border="0"></a> <a href="target17.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0273.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="114. Valle de ... somewhere in the area (forgot the name). The white dusting that looks like snow is salt." border="0"></a> <a href="target18.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0289.jpg" width="154" height="124" title="116. Valle de la Luna. Picture taken from the bus." border="0"></a> <a href="target19.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0302.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="120. Valle de la Luna, Tres Marias." border="0"></a> <a href="target20.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0306.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="123. Valle de la Luna. Walking up to watch the sunset." border="0"></a> <a href="target21.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/chilebolivia_093.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="126. Valle de la Luna lookout spot." border="0"></a> <a href="target22.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0316.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="124. Valle de la Luna sunset." border="0"></a> <a href="target23.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0309.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="128. Valle de la Luna sunset." border="0"></a> <a href="target24.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0324.jpg" width="154" height="106" title="141. Next day. El Tatio geyser field at 7.30 in the morning. It took 2.5 hours to drive there. It's at an altitude of 4200 m. - an altitude where you really start to feel it. It's the 3rd largest geyser field in the world." border="0"></a> <a href="target25.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0338.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="142 Small pool of warm water. The red colour is a bacteria growth." border="0"></a> <a href="target26.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0363.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="153. El Tatio geyser." border="0"></a> <a href="target27.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0340.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="Video: El Tatio geysers" border="0"></a> <a href="target28.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0344.jpg" width="154" height="112" title="148. El Tatio geyser field." border="0"></a> <a href="target29.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0349.jpg" width="154" height="104" title="154. Build-up of calcium carbonate (and probably other rminerals)." border="0"></a> <a href="target30.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0333.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="Video: A big geyser" border="0"></a> <a href="target31.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0343.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="144. Another small pool at El Tatio. The water is boiling slightly." border="0"></a> <a href="target32.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp0366.jpg" width="154" height="108" title="149. El Tatio geyser field." border="0"></a> <a href="target33.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/chilebolivia_107.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="157. Breakfast at El Tatio. Then we spent the rest of the morning driving home to the hotel and had the rest of the day off." border="0"></a> <map name="Map"> <area shape="rect" coords="95,1,129,44" href="frameset.htm"> </map> </body> </html>