Thursday, April 2, 2009

Today we´re in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

It has been impossible to find a computer that is capable of reading a SD card. Finally I found one in probably the smallest town we have stayed in the whole time.

So, I´ll update what we did earlier later when I have my other chip with me. I just had my camera with me, so I´ll put a few recent things on here.

How´s everyone doing?

OK, here we are by Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the world outside of the Himalayas:




We were at about 10,000 feet here.

We went to Barreal, Mendoza, Salta, and Cafayate after that. I´ll get to most of that in more depth later.

We had a really nice time in Cafayate for a few days.

Then onto Salta which is (along with Cafayate and Bariloche) probably the nicest place we´ve been.

Some Cafayate:





Then today we went over the Andes. The road was just ridiculous. We were over 15,000 feet for a long time. Usually when you go over mountains, you kind of go up, over and then back down. Today we went up, then stayed up for about 5 hours. It is just crazy how big the mountain range is and how weird looking it is. A few examples:





Tomorrow we have to start a geyser tour at 4am so I need to get to bed, but I wanted to at least get some pictures up here while I can.

Hopefully I´ll get a chance to update further while still here.


Passing a gas truck in a no passing zone on a corner, on a cliff, at 12,000 feet is a great decision:


Aaron

3 comments:

Janaya said...

I really cannot believe how beautiful some of the scenery is. It looks like so much fun.

Unknown said...

Yeah, some of it is pretty awesome. We ran into some goats too, so they let them in I guess. You should check it out. Especially by Cafayate and Salta, lots of goats.

stadtler said...

How does that road compare to the road of death?