San Pedro de Atacama was quite nice. I only had 2 days, 1 night there, but could have spent more if I had time!

It is a quiet town close to the Bolivian border. Quite a touristic town, as a lot of tours are run from there, and a lot of travellers end up there as well.

I did a Valle de la Luna day tour yesterday evening, ending up to watch the sun set. It was a nice tour, and another one with stunning landscape.

We first went to a place with an overlook of the eroded landscape, volcán Licancabur, and San Pedro de Atacama. It was really windy there, then it started to rain a little. But the worst part was the sands that the winds carried.

The next stop was Death Valley, where we walked for a little bit. The landscape...colored, layered, and uplifted exposed sandstone and salt earth. We walked to an overlook area over eroded surfaces. The guide told us that it was called Death Valley because one day there was an electrical storm, and animals were frightened and fell off a pass into the valley. How true it is, I don´t know.

We also passed by surfaces shaped in triangular patterns from erosion. We also heard the salt expanding and contracting, walked through natural caves caused by torrential floods.

Our last stop was the Valle de la Luna, to watch the sunset. There is a huge sand dune that you walk up. Most of our group went to the left, where it was less crowded. For a while, the coulds were hiding the sun. Behind us, we could see the volcanoes enshrouded in clouds, with the atliplano in the distance, and the earth´s surface at a slight angle.

The sun peeked beneath the clouds and above the eroded earth. The clouds started to turn orange. The scenary behind me was lit up, while the coulds had almost fully covered the volcano scenary in the background.

The sunset seemed to die down, so I proceeded down the dune. When I got to the bottom, the sky had turned pink and orange behind the eroded mountain -- like it was on fire. The colors became more intense as the sun went down, and finally faded away.