Here we are in La Serena, following the 17 hour bus ride.Luckily for us, the Chilean bus system is much more luxurious than that of Bolivia, Ecuador and even Peru.We were treated to a comfortable and spacious "salon-cama": a seat we could actually fall asleep in! As Aaron started to describe in the last blog, we spent a nice and relaxing week in San Pedro de Atacama: the tourist´s mecca of Chile, besides Torres del Paine of course. The first full ...

Hot, dry, dusty, and water is scarce here in the Atacama desert. It is said that it is the driest desert in the world, some areas never having seen so much as a drop of rain. The environs are reminicent of northeastern Arizona and southern Utah, such as the likes of Zion, Arches, and Grand Canyon National Parks. The town of San Pedro de Atacama is the center of all attention here in the desert and recieves the hoards of tourists, gringos and Chilean nationals a...