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Ok, so we’re back in Bolivia. We’re in Uyuni this time, which has pizza, pool tables, but NOT atms. Here’s how we got here..
Cliched Sunsets and Psychadelic Landscapes
GringoAndGringa2006-02-18 14:52:28
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in vintage junk and jewellery from the U.S. I got some earrings and a ring there. When the sales lady heard we were from Canada, she said “oh, we get stuff from Canada too, look at this” and showed us a purse which had “Smoking Lily, Made in Canada” printed on the
San Pedro. I lost my hat and had to chase after it off of the path. I could have been fined, but it was all worth it for the hat.inside. For those who aren’t boutique clothing store fans, that’s a very small shop in Victoria. Made our day.
Eventually I got a cold from too much swimming and Mike got a “mild” sunburn so we said goodbye to Iquique and took a bus to San Pedro de Atacama. That turned out to be the same day that a large earthquake hit the area, but we didn’t feel it and had no idea it had even happened until the next day.
San Pedro is small, pretty and touristy. There must be more tour agencies per square meter there than anywhere else. We managed to find a hostel with a nice outdoor kitchen and so avoided the shockingly overpriced restaurant food. Can’t really recommend that place (Casa del Cochamba or something like that on Gustavo Le Paige road) as they were pretty disorganized and tried to get me to pay twice and have many many sings posted about their various rules (the funniest being the no immoral actions in the bedrooms rule). Also, for some reason, in San Pedro (in the middle of the world’s driest dessert) they have trucks that spray water on the roads to keep the dust down. Just like
Iquique. This place was literally about 100 m from our hostel. Zambonis.
While in San Pedro we went on a tour to Death Valley, the salt caves and Valley of the Moon. That was very interesting and we got to walk/slide down a very large sand dune. The next day we left on our 4-day tour across the desert and salt flats to Uyuni, Bolivia and back.
We were packed in a minibus for the trip across the border, and then separated into jeeps.
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I have just read with interest your travel stories.
We are a family of 4 from Australia going to soth America for 6 weeks over Christmas 2008. I am trying to work out our route from Puno to Iquique and think it is best to go from La Paz to Iquique via bus.
I read in the lonely planet that you can get an overnight bus, just wondering if you know any more about that, whether they go every night, it they have sleepers and where they depart from
Thank you
Jo Lockyer
Jo Lockyer, 2008-08-03 23:00:22