Good morning everyone.
Today you'll notice I'm not traveling with Audrey or my parents.
Yesterday we did a marathon session of 13 hours of tours.
So understandably they are back at home resting.
But today I'm going to go out and show some different areas in and around San Pedro de
Atacama.
And these are different from what we did before.
We're going to be focusing on lagoons and the altiplano and we're also going to be visiting
a Salt Flat.
So lots of cool stuff planned for today.
Something else I've really enjoyed about the tours here is the fact they've all left really
early in the morning.
That's been awesome for photography because of the nice soft light in the morning and
also great for spotting wildlife.
Ah, estoy llena.
Breakfast was awesome.
I'm totally stuffed.
Today we had omelettes and we also had bread and we had Carlitos again so it was a really
good meal and now we're ready to move on.
On both days of our tour we decided to go with a company called Grado diez - Grado 10.
And I thought I'd share the thought process behind that.
So number one the vehicles are a lot bigger than the typical ones plying these roads.
A lot of the vehicles that you'll see on these tours are little minivans and they tend to
have problems sometimes on these off-roads.
So taking a big truck was really good.
And the other reason we decided to go with this company too was because of the awesome
windows on this vehicle.
This is like a safari truck so you know the tour cost a little bit more and we did get
a few extra things.
Like we had a really nice breakfast, we had on the first day we had pancakes, we had really
nice juice, coffee, bread.
And today we had omelets.
I've noticed on other cheaper tours you get a lot more of a simple breakfast.
It is just like bread and maybe juice and that is it.
So this was a really good choice for us.
It cost a little bit more but you know sometimes the extra comfort is worth paying for.
Next up is the flamingo reserve.
Time to go spot some flamingos.
Something about the tour today to really keep in mind is that the elevation does go above
4000 meters above sea level.
So that means that altitude sickness can be an issue and also getting a sunburn is very
common in this type of weather because you're up so high, so you really really need to slather
on that sunscreen.
Alright, so that marks the end of the tour.
The highlight was definitely the flamingo reserve and the salt flats.