Exploring Chile's Atacama Desert

(October 2015)
Pictures and video from a nine-day trip with Glenn and Michele to Chile's Atacama Desert.
A short video montage of our time in the Atacama Desert region (3.5 minutes, 50 MB) The town of San Pedro de Atacama DSC03498 DSC03543 Heading out on horseback from town DSC03500
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DSC06809 DSC03545 DSC03550 DSC03551 DSC03553 (Photo by Michele)
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DSC06877 DSC03629 DSC06887 The Crim bandito family DSC03622 DSC03633
DSC03636 DSC03638 Visiting El Tatio geyser field DSC06907 DSC06920 DSC06913
DSC06922 DSC06925 DSC06910 A viscacha (in the family of chinchillas) A viscacha (in the family of chinchillas) DSC03640
DSC06954 DSC06956 Successfully reaching the top of Zoquete (above El Tatio geysers) at 4900m or 16,073 ft. DSC06968 DSC06970 DSC06987
DSC06997 Our first sighting of a vicuna More vicunas More vicunas DSC07045 DSC07057
Flamingos DSC07073 (Photo by Michele) DSC07075 DSC07076 DSC07079
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DSC07116 DSC07117 This poor goat got himself trapped on a cliff ledge. DSC03641 Watched by a llama sentry DSC07151
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DSC07191 A sample starscape from our campsite (ignore the purple-fringing: wasn't the best lens for this) Part of the Milky Way DSC07261 DSC07265 DSC07268
Some petroglyphs DSC07275 DSC07280 DSC07282 DSC07284 On our second trekking night, we camped in the churchyard of Río Grande Village, one of the few remaining indigenous communities of the Atacameño people.
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DSC07333 DSC07347 DSC07374 Pink flamingos in the Salar de Atacama DSC07344 Pink flamingo in the Salar de Atacama
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One of two culpeo foxes we encountered on the road A culpeo fox DSC07433 DSC07436 DSC07447 IMG 4373
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