Hello again. I will be brief as time is short and Marilyn wants to update her blog also. We arrived in Arica on the 30th Jan, as you know. Stayed there for 2 nights - quite a pleasant place on the coast and we then moved on to Iquique, another 7 hour bus journey south. Stayed there also for 2 nights in a backpacker hostel dormitory. Great beach and well worth the stopover to top up our suntans which have faded alot since Mexico! We then moved on to San Pedro de Atacama where we are now and have been since the 3rd. Fantastic place in the Atacama salt desert. We did a tour yesterday afternoon to the Valley of the Moon Craters and concluded it by watching the sun set over the valley. Stunning and some photos will follow. It has rained for the last 4 days here in the late afternoons for a few hours. Amazing as it has been a rarity for some years but wherever we have gone inland in S/America since arriving in Quito before Christmas, the rain has been closeby!! I guess being at altitude doesn't help! We are about 2800 metres above s/level here.
We are both well and tomorrow move on to Antofagasta on the coast for an overnight stop before continuing south on our journey to Santiago via. Copiapo and La Serena after Antofagasta. We hope to arrive in Santiago on the 12th or 13th and spend a week there before we fly home to the UK (moi) and New Zealand (Marilyn). I will update with some photos from Santiago. Ciaio for now. Jon.
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