After the.5 days of amazing experiences up here in the Atacama, we are getting psyched up for the 3 days’ drive back south with no interesting stops on the way. It’s a dry dusty drive but we do pass through several difference climatic regions and along some beautiful deserted rocky coastlines and lovely strands of untouched beaches. UP and down over different sierras, mountain ranges, and pass vast ugly old and current mining sites. It’s. Rough and tumble life up here and the truckers and people we run into at stops reflect this. Once we pas a lonely vicuña near the road - no others in sight!! We are glad every time we find a Copec gas station, modern, clean good bathrooms, friendly gas attendants.
We drive in and out of regions with the ubiquitous cardon and candelabra cactus on the dry hillsides.
It’s easy to roll into the same hotel and resto in Talca for an early night, after the local fish in a plain plastic tablecloth diner on the seafront, and watching the sun go down. Ted is out cold as soon as he hits the pillow.
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