San Pedro: Drier than an Armadillo's Bumhole
San Pedro: Drier than an Armadillo’s Bumhole Valle de la Muerte So we left the Salt Plains in Uyuni and headed down the steep hill in the bus. Although San Pedro is still at quite the high altitude it was nothing compared to where we were, we probably dropped around 2000 metres. The whole experience of crossing the border had been a little weird. Not only had there been the extortion of the amount for an exit stamp in our passport, but we were on a bus filled with bleary eyed tourists, including a very sweary French man who seemed in a foul mood. Just as we’d got to the border the driver pulled into a layby and jabbered away at us all in Spanish. At which point to my amusement a few very panicked voices from the back went ‘Can someone translate please!’ So an Australian girl translated for the group of Slavic girls at the back. As it turns out Chile has ecological safeguards in a similar manner to Fiji and New Zealand , this means that a lot of food and various plants and...
