Arrived in San Pedro 03-Mar-2011
Atacama Crossing (Chile) 2011
Left London 4pm on 1st March and finally arrived in the desert at 3am (London time) on the 3rd. So 36 hours of travelling, 3 flights and a bus journey into the desert I´m finally here! Chris and I hooked up with Tom at Santiago airport who had just arrived from Singapore via Sydney and Auckland (a hellish journey for him - I think he was 48 hours of travel with a date line cross somewhere a long the way). Dont´feel terribly sharp as went down with a stinking cold 2 days before leaving home so missing 2 nights ish sleep hasn´t made it a whole lot better. Anyway, never mind, try to get some rest before Sunday am get go.
Had a wander around the village (San Pedro de Atacama) this am. It looks a lovely little place. It´s pretty darn hot and very dry! Stating the obvious I guess! Goodness knows how one is supposed to run in this!
We sorted our kit/food out this am and all our packs are roughly weighing in at just under 10 kg before water. We had a little competition to see who had the lightest pack and who could predict to the closest 100gramms how heavy each pack was - whata laugh hey, crazy! If we were consuming alcohol we could have turned it into a drinking game - may be next Saturday! I think I´m going to do a repack and try to be a little more ruthless and lose a few more gramms.
Well, that´s about it.
Ian
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