After such a beautiful couple of weeks in La Serena it was time to take leave of la Familia and board the first of the loooooong bus journeys that characterise backpacking travel in South America. I was reluctant in a way to leave, there was certainly a feeling of a magnet attracting me to La Serena, but with plenty of hugs and 'nos vemos' (see you later's) I was on my way again, leaving the bus station at Coquimbo at half past midnight the night of Tuesday 26th.
16 hours of amazingly comfortable salon-cama later and I was at 2,407m altitude in San Pedro de la Atacama in the Antifogasta region of northern Chile, a town built alongside an oasis in the midst of a vast desert.
The further north we got and the views from the bus were incredible.... kilometres and kilometres of sand without a tree or animal or person in sight, with a backdrop of mounatins and snow-tipped volcanoes.
Breathtaking!
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