If you decide to go to Chile one day, then remember - the trip will be very contrasting. No joke, to inspect the lake at an altitude of more than four and a half kilometers, and the next day you may find yourself in the desert. But this is Chile.
It is the contrasts of this country that so attract tourists from all over the world. And one of the lures is the Atacama Desert, which is considered the driest in the world.
Surprisingly, about a million Chileans live in this desert. If you were in Africa, you would believe the stories of the multitude of Tuaregs among the sands, but there are no nomads in Chile. What can you do in the driest desert in the world?
It turned out that the settlements are concentrated closer to the ocean, and although it is dry in the desert itself, the temperature is not as high as in other similar places in the world. The desert is considered very beautiful (how beautiful the endless sea of sand can be), but the most important thing is the unique atmosphere that cannot be found either in the Sahara or in the Gobi.
In a town called San Pedro de Atacama, you can rent a powerful SUV with a navigator to drive through the desert on your own. The first impression after you stop to rest in the middle of the sands after 20 minutes of the road is an immense and at the same time filling silence. Since before you in all its glory appeared the Moon Valley, one of the strangest places in the desert.
Indeed, you might get the impression that you are on the moon - the surrounding landscape can be so typical. Locals in San Pedro joke that it was here that the Americans "landed" Armstrong and filmed a film about the flight to the moon.
