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1 Chilean Flag
2 Left to Right: Pacific Ocean, Coastal Mountains, Another Mountain Range and then the Andes. Also Bottom of Peru & Chile on left and Bolivia & Argentina on right.
3 Atacama Landscapes
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7 Salar de Atacama, Chile's largest salt flats
8 Walking on the Salar
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11 Long view out to Laguna Chaxa
12 3 kinds of flamingos in Laguna Chaxa
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16 One lone sandpiper
17 On the drive back, we saw lots of wild donkeys.
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20 San Pedro - oasis in the desert - and where we stayed.
21 Original Spanish built church, restored
22 Old prison
23 Arts and Crafts quarter
24 Local weaver
25 Nice Mural
26 Quinoa gelato!
27 Still-in-use cemetery
28 Historic house. Valdivia, Prime Cardinal, sent by Pizarro to convert the indiginous. He was felled by the Mapuche a few years later.
29 Outside of San Pedro, we lunched at a small farm in Toconau
30 Dessert - made of quinoa of course
31 A walk up to the top of some indiginous forts.
32 Made it to the top
33 Afternoon hike in Moon Valley: I think the flat part here is 'Mars' (where the Mars Rover prototype was tested in 2013)
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35 Watched the sandboarders on the way down
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37 Next day - EARLY: Sun almost rising over El Tatio Geyser Field Well below 0.
38 Ground is getting warmer (but not the air)
39 With more light comes lighter bursts of steam
40 Hard to work the camera with gloves on
41 An hour later - survived the cold
42 Welcome dip into the (very) hot springs
43 Saw a shepherd(ess) crossing the road
44 Beginning of last day hike in the desert
45 Top of Rainbow Valley
46 Looks a bit like Arizona
47 German Church in Machuco - old community, still survives.
48 One of many ancient rock arts - this is a dog
49 A Monkey
50 Downtown Santiago - across from hotel in Provedencia
51 Financial District
52 La Moneda Palace
53 Mural reflecting what used to be there
54 Pre-Columbian museum
55 The concept of 'coffee with legs' was invented to promote coffee consumption in a tea or maté drinking society.
56 Central Fish Market
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59 Love Locks
60 Art installation at a former (evicted) law school.
61 Fun sculpture in park
62 A more disturbing one.
63 This one in the Plaza De Armes park.
64 A walk up to a huge Madonna that overlooks the city
65 Ticket booth for funicular that goes further up the hill
66 This one coming down as we go up
67 View from the top.
68 Then a cable car ride down.
69 Final night - Jazzzzz!
70 Trumpeter is the band leader - playing trad with a Spanish touch
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73 And of course, my martini. Thanks for watching!
