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Travel through Bolivia 2001

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San Pedro Atacama

The small town of San Pedro Atacama looks like it is Sunday everyday. Early in the morning there is nobody on the streets, they are waking up slowly. The electricity is only during the day. It starts at 8am and goes to 1am. On Sundays and holidays it stared at 10am. On my first 2 days in town, there was no electricity because the generator was broken. For sure it is not a good place to have an ice-cream.

An interesting point of the city is Licancabur volcano, it can be seen from almost everywhere in San Pedro Atacama. It worked as a magnet for me, anywhere I had been, I was always searching for it on my landscape view.

I visited Pukara de Quitor, 3kms from town. I waked there to see the surroundings. It is a ruin, maybe it used to be a fort, constructed on the wall of a hill. Next day I rented a bicycle to go a little further, Tulor, about 11km from town. The way there it was already a good part of the trip. I went through a small unpaved road...

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Chacaltaya and Valle de la Luna


We left early to visit the famous peak, Chacaltaya. It is the highest ski resort in the world (more than 5000m above sea level). In the way there, we could see diverse snow peaks and volcanoes. Each one of them has a legend to the indigenous people. At the ski resort, it was very cold and there were strong winds. One of the friends of tour stayed in the car, she not even tried to go up the top.

We start to go up, slowly, at 5270m. When I was half way, I did not feel very well, I was cold, had headache and my legs were trembling. I was afraid of sliding down, I stopped a little to photograph and I decided to go down.

I had a coca leaf tea in the resort cafe and stayed enjoying the landscape. There was nobody skiing because the weather was not appropriate. After some minutes, the rest of the group started to show up. Many had given up to go to the top. From we went back to the city and we head to the Valle de la Luna, a place few kilometers south of La Paz, that looks like the moon...

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