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| A nice cafe interior |
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| Some round adobe brick buildings I passed |
I visited the geysers (steaming bursts of water visible at sunrise at 4320m altitude at -10 degrees) which was stunning but freezing. I paddled in a natural thermal spring rich in minerals and on the way back we saw guanaco`s, vincuña`s and llama`s. We also stopped at an old village that had houses built using stone and a clay/earth mortar and a timber framed roof with straw.
I took lots of pictures of adobe buildings. It´s quite nice what they have done with some of the buildings in San Pedro, but there are a lot of concrete buildings too.
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| My hostel, very un-authentic concrete block |
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| Some adobe brick building going on |
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| Unfortunately concrete going up as well |
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| Iglesia San Pedro 17th century colonial church |
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| Ceiling is made of cardón (cactus wood) |
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| Inside |
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| Museo Gustavo le Paige octagonal shaped building, with interesting artefacts well preserved in the desert climate. The Paleo Indian mummies were removed though, at request of the Atacameño people |
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| Houses here 6000 years ago looked like this |
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| The main plaza |
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| The geysers at dawn |
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| Boiling the milk and eggs for our breakfast in a geyser |
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| A geyser spurted up right in front of me |
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| The thermal bath |
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| Me feeling very small (and cold) |
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| River in the geyser field |
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| guanaco´s |
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| vicuñas |
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| vicuñas in the distance |
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| A llama with earings |
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| Machuca village and the church |
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| Llama kebab, yum |
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| A stone house with clay/earth mortar |
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| So cute! |
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