Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. --- Mark Twain

Monday, July 22, 2013

Atacama


05.06.2013 - 09.06.2013
The Journey: Altamira – Agua Verde – Antofagasta – Calama – San Pedro de Atacama – Calama (831 km).

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The expance.  Something similar, such as Patagonia, where you can view tens of kilometers.
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In the meantime, there are some traces of the human. Altamira, was once a railway station.

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Directly to the north, the road is like a ruler drawn. Some dections are dusty and some are very dusty, as the 5-10 centimeter thick cement dust scattered on the road.

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Another abandoned mine in the desert

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Brefly back in Panamericana

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Mano Del Desierto.

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Industrial district before Antofagasta

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Antofagasta. Parque Cultural Huanchaca – former silver industry, which opened in 1892, and belonged to Bolivia.

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Here is an interestin museum, exhibits are both silver-mining history and astronomy

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Mars Lander

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A simple and logical - the RUN and the STOP, anf of course RESET. Every proper unit must be RESET, another question is, who will push it on Mars

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Military Chapel of Our Lady of Carmen 

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I stay two nights at the height of 2200 m, in Calama, and then to San Pedro de Atacama

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The road goes uphill

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Atacama Desert.

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Cordillera de la Sal

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The whole Atacama region is supposed to be one of the driest places on the planet, but when I look the sky, there is rain cloud

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Rain in the night, but the next morning was, again, the blue sky.

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San Pedro de Atacama Church (1577).

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Main Street

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Pukara de Quitor

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And Valley de la Luna

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Volcano Licancabur

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I'm driving back to Calama at night.

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