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Day 45: So much dust

Largely a fairly uneventful day on our last day of San Pedro de Atacama. This was probably needed after our triple excursion day previously. Whilst sitting in the garden of our accommodation we were treated to some standard South American manners; despite the fact that the host(s) were also sat in the garden they decided to message us on airbnb saying that we MUST leave the room... Very bizarre. No pleases anywhere in sight. Taking this in mind into our review we duly obliged and packed up our things. We headed to the bus stop to try and work out when our bus would be to La Serena. I think this will be one of our longest bus journeys so we thought it wise to get the half bed option. It's surprisingly easy to have things to do on a 17 hour bus journey when you're asleep for half of it! Next to the bus stop we found ourselves some lunch. Probably one of the best fresh fruit juices we've had overall was here! We only ordered fruit juice after the man told us that Coca-Cola no longer provided him with any soft drinks (I didn't dare venture further into the why). What came with the delicious fruit juices were some impressively-sized sandwiches. Avocado came on every sandwich so that was a given. I also had chicken and tomato, Emma opted for a full vegetarian one (must not have been feeling well); onion, cheese, lettuce and tomato. A very enjoyable lunch.

Nevertheless we ventured back to the main plaza after this to get the free wifi that works just about. The plaza belongs to dogs mostly, probably could have counted over 30 different dogs venturing around in the time we spent there. They are all friendly to humans as most of them are people's pets, just allowed to roam free during the day like a cat. We allowed ourselves to have a delicious passion fruit ice cream whilst we watched the doggos.

We thought that we may as well do something slightly intellectual during the day so we found a museum - the meteorite museum. It was basically a large tent with a load of rocks in. There were television screens there too that were showing videos on repeat. They gave you a set of headphones that had a pre-recorded playback of the speech throughout the tent and what you were seeing along with additional information.

It was very informative and I have a feeling that a lot of people would be very swamped over the information. There were lots of technical words and use of assumed knowledge. When they start talking about electrons as if you know what they are before explaining their role in it - I thankfully did know a little bit. Apparently they find a lot of meteorites in the desert because it's so dry and thus the meteorites don't rust and disintegrate. After we were finished with the museum it was time to go back to the accommodation and collect our bags. Not before the opportunity to play with the puppy one more time. I think this puppy may have been the turning point for Emma to go from a cat person to maybe both (I'd like to think more a dog person). Her exposure to laska dog and charles did the groundwork but even charles isn't as cute as a tiny puppy. We collected our bags and trekked to the bus station in preparation for our 17 hour bus journey. It's mad to think that we aren't even the last stop on the bus. Some people are going a further 7 hours to Santiago! Chile is so long it's bizarre. How can something so long have an East or West? Surely it can only have a North and South? Chile is mad though; it's something like over 4000km long but less than 200km width.


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