We woke up Thursday morning and went to the market. We had brought some groceries from Santiago...mostly pasta and rice...so we could avoid going out for every meal. We got some avocado and tomatoes and stuff to go in our pasta and rice dishes. In the afternoon we set off on our second adventure. Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley). It was really cool. We saw some great views of the desert. There were these rocks that made noise as the sun came over them in the valley...it sounded like the whole cliff was going to collapse as they were all crackling and popping with the heat expansion...it was eerie being next to them/under them! We did some hiking through the winding passage ways, through the scorching sun, and down into caves of darkness where you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.
After Valle de la Luna, we went to see some rock formations. I posted the picture of the dinosaur...it's actually a pretty cool rock formation and I can definitely see the dinosaur head in it.
We went to the dunes to see the sunset...really cool. The hike was vale la pena (worth the effort). The pictures don't do it justice...the sunset over the desert was very memorable. After our day long tour of more of the desert we went back to the hostel, and went to bed early (midnight) because we knew we had to wake up at 3am for our trip to the geysers!
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