Heading north
Trip Start
Aug 15, 2008
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Trip End
Sep 29, 2008
Arica, Chile
Saturday, August 23, 2008
I was fished here by lovely lady to stay at her lovely guest house just opposite to bus terminal - that will be handy tomorrow to cross the street in order to bus to La Paz.
Yesterday was second and last full day in San Pedro. I suppose it is healthy to stay in the middle of the desert to see things that are majestically different from those at home, but also to sort out your own thought, fear, illusions, ideas. Desert is the place with bare minimum for your thoughts to wander around.
Had another prescribed tour to lagunas. And luckely enough just by chance I got some space just for myself. As the rest of the group was still going together, I had some time to gaze to the tops of the volcanos and the celeste water...
In the salt plains, the 3rd biggest place in the world finally I could spot the flamingos, or locally flamencos. And I can see why this dance called as the bird...
A lovely little church in San Pedro with some local songs...
An exchange of songs with the local family whose hostel we stayed at. A little lovely girl sang her heart out, and I played her with a guitar a children lithuanian song. why sometimes the best things happen right in the end. she waived me and wished me good luck for my trip..
It is getting more and more interesting to be from the coutry which is not that popular in this continent. And it is not so that they would not know where Lithuania is. Is just that not so many of 3 millions traveling here probably. So to feel special just because you are quite unique is lush.
Next stage - already in La Paz. I just hope they wont eat words like they do in Chile, as my spanish is not matured enough to get things quickly. They say in Bolivia they speak slowly, which is a paradise for beginners like me. :)
