We're finally in Arica. It's been some long past few days crossing the desert of Atacama. Now I understand why it is the driest one in the world, there's absolutely no life whatsoever in it. We spend a night in La Serena, then Mejillones, yesterday in Iquique (quite nice actually) and today in Arica, the last town before the border with Perú. The landscape, although completely barren, was fascinating to me.
Today was a short 330km ride under the aggressive desert sun and over the scorching martian rock. We rode through what seemed like a mine field of dirt devils (mini tornadoes), one of them swirling just a few meters away from me (there's a video of this).
On the other hand, work is hard and although Mick (from Compass), Emil and Jordi (a couple of trainees) have been very helpful, for some reason it seems awkward to think that we were able to handle a larger group from Ushuaia to Santiago all by ourselves.
Besides a few mechanical repairs here and there, the tour is running great and everyone is having an amazing time. We still have four more days before we arrive to Cusco.
Enjoy some pictures.
1 comments:
Nice blog guys!!
BTW there is an incredibly gallardo caballero with a beard and black riding clothes that definitely looks like a gentleman on pictures...
Abrazos
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