Tag: Atacama

Eleven hours on a bus is certainly not my idea of a good time, but the fact that our trip was mostly at night made the experience a lot more tolerable. As morning approached and we were within a couple hours of San Pedro, we hit (what we thought was) a traffic jam on Route 5. For a long time, we didn’t move an inch and eventually the driver turned the bus off entirely, which is never a good sign. When he started the bus again about half an hour later, he turned around and drove back towards Calama, the…