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85 viewsEntering Chile through the Hito Cajon outpost.
On the Chilean side there is no human settlement until San Pedro de Atacama 50 km away with a 2500m drop in elevation.
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66 viewsWe may have crossed the border to another country, but the landscape still as majestic as in Bolivia.
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72 viewsEntering Chile with Vulcan Licancabur (5916m) in the background.
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90 viewsAfter spending 47 days in Bolivia’s altiplano on the most disastrous roads on the continent, we are back on the asphalt and at lower elevations.
Atacama Desert. (Chile)
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66 viewsThe San Pedro church in Atacama’s oasis with the same name is one of the oldest in the country. (Chile)
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81 viewsMain Square at the oasis village of San Pedro de Atacama with Vulcan Licancabur (I think) in the background- (Chile)
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84 viewsOne of the main streets of San Pedro de Atacama. The oasis of San Pedro may be lost in Northeast corner of Atacama’s desert but is visited by thousands of tourists each year.(Chile)
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71 viewsBack on the altiplano and above 4400 meters on the way to Paso de Jama. This landscape is part of the Dali’s desert that one founds on the Bolivian side just a few dozen kilometres north of here. (Chile)
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76 viewslandscape of Chilean altiplano, on the road between San Pedro de Atacama and the Argentinean border. (Chile)
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59 viewsThe road from san Pedro de Atacama in Chile to Paso de Jama in Argentina is truly spectacular...and all paved!! (Chile)
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68 viewsSome Vicunas at a nearly frozen river above 4500 meters on our way to Paso de Jama. (Chile)
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65 viewsFrom San Pedro de Atacama and Paso de Jama is 160 km without human settlements..and a lot of this beautiful landscape - Picture taken at 4400 meters altitude.(Chile)
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