A lot of hot air...


Next stop in the desert was the geysers, and imagine my surprise when I found traces of the United States. And by traces, I mean remains. Aparently years ago, the United States sent scientists into Chile to run tests on the geyser activities. But they didn't intend on the temperatures being as hot as they were, so their machinery become rusted and worthless. But instead of cleaning up our mess, we just left the equipment there to become an eye sore in the otherwise gorgeous geyser field. Go America...
After the main geyser field, we headed to the field with the larger geysers. And by larger, I do mean larger. We were introduced to the "Killer Geyser" (translated of course). THis geyser was enormous!!! So enormous, in fact, that people have actually fallen into it and died. About a year ago, a man fell in, only to be pulled out and taken to the hospital, where he died a short while later. Now granted the man was stupid enough to have run onto the very small and thin strip that separated the two halves of the geyser, causing it collapse...but still...the geyser is a killer. Sarah and I took the opportunity to attempt to be amusing and take a photograph of our "melting legs" in front of the geyser...

After the geysers, it was back to San Pedro by way of a particularly long trip through the desert for some more spectacular scenery. I'll wrap up this leg of my journey with this last two images... the road we travelled on back to San Pedro, and a shot of one of the streets on the outskirts of San Pedro.