Day 3 to 5 - Santiago to San Pedro de Atacama

The flight from Santiago to Antofogasta took us over the Andes and we were pretty much blown away. As you can see from the pic, the Andes are an awe-inspiring sight. I got to watch hilarious latin american comedy on the plane as well - was waiting for bumblebee man to come out and say ´I i i no mi gusta´!

We went straight from the airport to catch the 5 hour bus to San Pedro, without any food or water... we were both starving and luckily our bag of lollies from Brianne made it into hand luggage or we wouldn´t have survived. We arrived about 10pm not knowing how we would get to our hostel - luckily Roberto, our host, was there to take us home. We met up with Neil and Sar again and went into town for some well deserved dinner!

It wasn´t until the next day that we got to fully appreciate San Pedro - we had this amazing vista from our front door-











... and the town was just so lovely and little and welcoming.

There was heaps of yummy food - one of the restaurents was so good we went three times! Plus there was a guitar in the hostel! Hooray! We pretty much took it easy the whole time, eating, walking around, booking our Solar trip and just hanging out.





We also went out to a little observatory on the last night and got to look at all different stars and planets through telescopes with a lovely French man telling us all about them. Was awesome but freezing - we all had all of our clothes on... Here is the picture of the moon we took-

The next morning we awoke early to cross the border into Bolivia and begin our Solar tour!