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

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Atacama. Laguna Chaxa. Flamingo

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

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Water season opening

Our environment now is not human-friendly, all parks are closed, all trails are closed, all bike trails are closed, everything are prohibited. I feel like a hibernated marmot. When the sun and some warm were turned on, we realized that didn’t use our kayak for a long . . . → Continue reading Water season opening

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

May Grand Vacation 2012 – Netherlands – Bald Family

The most impressive part of our travel to Kinderdijk was coot family we met in one of the channels. There were plenty of coots in all channels, but most of them still sat on eggs, and only one fast-paced coupe already shepherds their just-hatched chicks. This is . . . → Continue reading May Grand Vacation 2012 – Netherlands – Bald Family

Dad of the year

Little bird jacana lives in Africa. More precisely, its name is African jacana aka Actophilornis africanus. There are eight jacana species; they live around the world, but all in tropics and they all are pretty similar.

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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

Atacama. Vado Putana

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

The Atacama, as many deserts, has some rivers. These rivers, like many desert rivers, not always appear on the surface, very often they hide underground. Places, where water . . . → Continue reading Atacama. Vado Putana

Atacama. Geyser Valley El Tatio

Atacama. San Pedro and Laguna Cejar

After Laguna Cejar we decided that it is time to visit some place with higher elevation. We choose Geyser Valley El Tatio. It locates north of San Pedro, near the border with Bolivia. It is the edge . . . → Continue reading Atacama. Geyser Valley El Tatio

Atacama. San Pedro and Laguna Cejar

The main aim of our winter travel to Chilie was climbing Ojos del Saldo, the highest volcano in the world. It is also pretty high in absolute numbers, 6893 meters, so required acclimatisation. Acclimatisation near the Ojos, as most climbers do, is very boring and uncomfortable – . . . → Continue reading Atacama. San Pedro and Laguna Cejar