Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. Summit

Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. Base Camp Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. High camp

January 6 the wind died down, and we moved camp up to 5100. The German-Australians had gone down, freeing their tent places, and we settled onto one of them. We . . . → Continue reading Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. Summit

Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. High camp

Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. Base Camp

January 1 — a day off. Sacred, obviously. Especially when acclimatization calls for it.

We woke up unhurriedly, had breakfast, our companion decided to commit to rest with full seriousness, while we felt lazy — so we went for . . . → Continue reading Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. High camp

Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. Base Camp

So, settling the debt from a year ago, at the end of this freshly concluded December we once again set out for Marmolejo. But not by the standard route — this time via its neighboring volcano San José, just to avoid repeating ourselves. The two stand . . . → Continue reading Andean vacation. Volcano San Jose. Base Camp

Andean vacation

We suddenly found ourselves with a chance to once again escape the darkest time of the year to the other hemisphere. And since there’s been an outstanding debt to Marmolejo hanging over us since last year, that’s . . . → Continue reading Andean vacation

Atacama. Volcano Lascar and the car that we broke

Atacama. Laguna Lejia Atacama. Laguna Chaxa. Fabian’s lizard and other occupants Atacama. Laguna Chaxa. Flamingo Atacama. Horned coots Atacama. Cerro Toco Atacama. Vado . . . → Continue reading Atacama. Volcano Lascar and the car that we broke

Atacama. Laguna Lejia

Atacama. Laguna Chaxa. Fabian’s lizard and other occupants Atacama. Laguna Chaxa. Flamingo Atacama. Horned coots Atacama. Cerro Toco Atacama. Vado Putana Atacama. Geyser . . . → Continue reading Atacama. Laguna Lejia

Atacama. Laguna Chaxa. Fabian’s lizard and other occupants

Atacama. Laguna Chaxa. Flamingo Atacama. Horned coots Atacama. Cerro Toco Atacama. Vado Putana Atacama. Geyser Valley El Tatio Atacama. San Pedro and Laguna . . . → Continue reading Atacama. Laguna Chaxa. Fabian’s lizard and other occupants

Atacama. Laguna Chaxa. Flamingo

Atacama. Horned coots Atacama. Cerro Toco Atacama. Vado Putana Atacama. Geyser Valley El Tatio Atacama. San Pedro and Laguna Cejar

Next day after Cerro Toco we for . . . → Continue reading Atacama. Laguna Chaxa. Flamingo

Atacama. Horned coots

Atacama. Cerro Toco Atacama. Vado Putana Atacama. Geyser Valley El Tatio Atacama. San Pedro and Laguna Cejar

There is a family Rallidae. They are intermediate size bird of order Gruiformes. They . . . → Continue reading Atacama. Horned coots

Atacama. Cerro Toco

Atacama. Vado Putana Atacama. Geyser Valley El Tatio Atacama. San Pedro and Laguna Cejar

It was nice to relax and drive around, but we came in the Atacama for acclimatization in the first place, so . . . → Continue reading Atacama. Cerro Toco