Hello Chile!

Hey everyone

So we have reached Chile (San Pedro de atacama) and are staying in a nice hostal (double bed, private bathroom) but we are practically in the desert so it is very hot. We are just staying here for a couple of days before we take the 23hr bus ride to Santiago which is leaving on the 24th. Below, we have pasted a link to google maps which should show where we are and where we came from (uyuni).

http://maps.google.cl/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=es&geocode=&q=san+pedro+de+atacama+chile&sll=-35.675147,-71.542969&sspn=66.902547,135.175781&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=San+Pedro+de+Atacama&ll=-22.919883,-68.209896&spn=9.785507,16.896973&z=6

We have spent the last few days on the Salar de uyuni which is basically a massive plain made of salt. It goes on for thousands of miles and the landscape is entirely flat which means the perspective is very odd. We basically had a tour for 3 days of the most interesting sights of the salar - such as the ´tree of rock´ ´fish island´and the salvador dali desert. It is really difficult to describe so we will put up some pictures when we get a chance. It was beautiful, weird and a highlight of the trip.

The accomodation on the trip was basic to say the least! So it is nice to have a comfortable place to sleep. What is cool, is that some people we met in La Paz on the biking trip took a different tour and are now in San Pedro, so we have met up with them for a drink. They are an Irish couple, so obviously we talked about the football match!

The tour we took had 6 people on it - us, a couple of australians, a korean guy and a dutch guy. The Korean guy taught us all the different ways to address each other in Korean, the dutch guy acted as translator for the driver/guide and the australian guy discussed sport with Glenn (for ages!). So it was a cool trip.

We will post again when we reach Santiago, so love to everyone.

Nina and Glenn xxx