So we arrived in Santiago for the music festival Lollapalooza, which was amazing. Highlights included meeting David Arquette and his friend, now forever known as "famous Mike". We do not know who famous Mike is, but having shown the photo we had with him to a group of Americans, they were very in awe of the fact we had our picture taken with him! Good old famous Mike. Musical highlights were (for me) Empire of the Sun, Fatboy Slim, 30 Seconds to Mars and Kanye West. And despite a near riot getting our tickets in the first place (including a 3 hour wait, the military police of Chile and a riot van) we emerged unscathed and danced for two solid days.
Santiago is much like Buenos Aires. And Madrid. And infact most other cities...it was nice but nothing special, and after a few days rest, an adventure on an indoor climbing wall (thank you Lucille and Sheryl) and sadly no pole dancing...we got on a 28 hour bus journey, full of very interesting miners to San Pedro de Atacama in the Atacama desert, bordering Bolivia.
San Pedro is lovely. A tiny town, full of travellers and tourists, all hoping for a glimpse of sand dunes and other worldly volcanoes. They are in for a treat. Every morning I leave my hostel and can see a volcano (inactive I may add) and give Bolivia a wave...know I will be there tomorrow.
Today we are off to the Valle de la Luna. I would love to explain more what this is...but I don´t really know. Tomorrow we are off on a three day trek to Bolivia via hot springs, geysers, flamingo lakes and salt flats.
San Pedro has more stars than I have seen, maybe because it is so remote. It also has a great little football pitch where Sheryl and I played head-torch nighttime football with a bag of rubbish. This is an activity I highly recommend - and certainly not in the guidebooks.
I can actually picture you playing head-torch-nighttime-football with a bag of rubbish! Oh, and I can even hear you giggle!!!!! :-)))
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