Arrived here yesterday morning, descending more than 2000m from the Altiplano. San Pedro is a nice little town with white houses and unpaved streets (probably on purpose, to make it look cuter). It's very expensive here: a bed in a dorm room costs 16 USD, cheapest menu lunch 10 USD. Hopefully it's because San Pedro is a remote desert town, the rest of Chile is maybe cheaper.
It's summer in San Pedro (compared to the almost 5000m heights that we reached on the way here), so switched to flip-flops, had two beers and biked to Valle de la Luna (28km round trip) to watch the sunset. As it's full moon now, the moon would have been even more impressive than the sun and fit better with the surreal landscape of the valley but clouds covered it and the park closing time is already at 21.00 which makes the proper moon watching impossible.
Will take a 24h bus to Santiago this evening. There was just a 8.8 scale earthquake close to it, so it's probably not the best time to visit...
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