We hit a rut here in the Atacama desert
No, to be fair to a once blind nominee for ¨the world´s most romantic desert¨, we hit a rut in the town of San Pedro de Atacama.
California´s very own Death Valley still holds the crown...
And San Pedro Atacama wins the Spring Break (bone dry) Key West look a like contest. But Chilean teenagers sure do seem to love it.
What you really need here is your own jeep.
Our experience has been similar to like what it would be to ride a bus into death valley to the visitor center/golf course ¨oasis¨ in the middle of the park ... and be stuck there with hordes of high maintenance screeching latina teenage girls with fake IDs.
I am sure the desert is lovely, but apart from over an overpriced tour in which they will take you to see some nice rocks so long as you don´t mind one of the teenage girls sitting on your lap it has been kind of like a permanant Coachella.
So we are moving on to visions of escaping horizions, stars within arms reach, flamingo filled lagoons and salt flats. A three day 4x4 jeep tour into Bolivia. They take 6 passengers, so we will have dwindled it down to 4 screachers, at worst. Four screachers standing between us and the exquisite romance of a land without water.
Pisco Elqui, on the other hand, was tops.
-z
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Bolivia!
ReplyDeleteThat's where the revolution wants to go next. They've got the worlds largest lithium deposits -- the stuff that will fill up the battery in everyone's electric car for the next decade or two until we figure out something better than batteries -- and Evo's got an odds-on chance to make sure the wealth from this actually (gasp) goes to the people.
In short, I'm looking forward to your report, and to seeing y'all in Buenos Aires in march!