A sleep in this morning and a late breakfast following quite a late night and an amazing meal last night. In true South American fashion dinner was at 9.30pm.
We spent the morning wandering around this cool town exploring the multitude of Artisan’s shops and all the little streets.
Around 4pm we went on a trip out to Moon Valley which is only about 10min drive from San Pedro de Atacama. Moon Valley is in the Los Flamencos National Reserve and is named as such because it’s rock and salt formations resemble the surface of the moon. First we walked through a system of gorges and caverns through the salt formations. At one point we stopped and listened to the salt crystals expanding in the heat of the sun, quite an eerie sensation. Next we drove on to the Great Sand Dune which is the largest dune in a field of dunes. On the way we briefly stopped at the Three Maries, which are rock formations that are thought to be over one million years old and have been formed by intense erosion processes. Forgetting how much climbing sand dunes hurt, we climbed to the crest for the panoramic view across the valley. The view was worth it! Our final stop in the Valley was a cool place called Coyote Rock, named because it resembles the rock out of the Road Runner cartoon, here we watched the colours change across the landscape as the sun set behind the Andes.
Tonight we enjoyed a traditional South American BBQ. Absolutely delicious!
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