Our next big stop was San Pedro de Atacama, which is a pretty small town about an hour from the Bolivian border, which makes it an important stop on the tourist trail because you can cross into Bolivia from here by jeep.
First of all however, it was my Birthday! Spent the first part of the day hunting around market stalls for nice things, then we teamed up with four other Brits we met and got ourselves a discount on a sandboarding session. The boarding was cool but quite hard. Going downhill fast is not a problem, but it's very difficult to stop gracefully.
After that we went to the Valle de la Luna to watch the sunset. It was really beautiful, because after the sun had set the valley (which had at least five volcanoes in it) turned from yellow to red to blue, and to make it even better there was a full moon too! It was a pretty cool Birthday!
The day after we got ourselves another discount on a tour which took us to these big salt water pools where you can float around. It was so much fun, especially because there were eight of us this time, so it was kind of like a pool party in the middle of the desert!
Then they took us to these gorgeous salt flats, where we could sit and drink Pisco Sour (strong rum-like drink with lime) and watched the sunset again. This was definately one of my favourite spots so far I think.
Now we just need to get a good night's sleep before our three day trip accross the desert tomorrow!
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