Saturday, 19 July 2014

Refuel in paposo before paranal

Okay so if you ever feel like going to see the Paranal observatory ie the telescopes be pre paired stock up with as much water as you can carry!

The road to take to get to Antofagasta is route 1 and not the middle road that is the B-170 there is Nothing and I mean Nothing from paposo to Antofagasta and the goo g is ver ver hard it's all uphill and step the desert sun does not help at all.

Truth be told I didn't make it after30 km of solid uphills and no relieve in sight I was running out of water I had one litter left!!! And a sun stock after a horrible night were there wild donkeys and four foxes bothered me the entire time, I moved the tent two kilometers away from the donkeys but they came back!!

Looking at the map I had another 20 km to Paranal and there was an aerodrome I figured that there would be water and snacks there well there isn't there is nothing at all just a landing strip!!!

So I set up the tent after just resting in the hot desert sun and went to the road to see I I could have one of the truckers give me water.

Turned out that one of them stopped and offered a ride all the way to Antofagasta !!!! Wow lucky me!!!

I saw that the desert was none stop and that it was uphill the entire way I would of never made it!!!!!

Once in the city I checked into the hotel after thanking the driver and his son!
First things  first a nice shower after I don't know how many days but my face had so much salt on it from the day in the desert that it hurt.

Eat and sleep!

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