Day 52, crossing another border

We watched the sun rise over the mountains and lagoon this morning. But we had some breakfast too, surprise! Surprise! (Toast, cheese, sausage, egg, dulce de leche, cereal)
When we were eating, Luis changed the tire he was already looking at before, and tied our bags on the roof.
Then we went to Salvador Dali's desert. He painted a desert from his imagination, but it exists here in real life. He was aparently never here.
We went to our last lagoons, the green one and the white one, and there were two perfect volcanoes there ❤️ Bolivia is so amazingly beautiful!
But sadly we had to go, and the next stop was some pre bolivian border office, where we showed our tickets for the national park and our border control QR code. Without this, we could not leave the country. Then came the next Bolivian border office 🤷‍♂️ there was an 1,5 hour line, but Luis hassled for us, and he got our passports stamped via the backdoor 🤭
We said goodbye to Milo from paraguay and Luis, and went into a minibus to Chile. We gave our 'leaves' already to Pachamama (mother earth) yesterday, because they are illegal in Chile. You also can't bring anything that is opened, and fruits or vegetables. 🤷‍♂️
The crossover went ok, and Eike forgot an apple in his bag, but they didn't make any problems. From the border at 4400 meters we drove in half an hour to San Pedro de Atacama at 2400 meters. The landscape changed quickly to something totally different. From high mountains into a giant slope, into complete flatness. All in 30 minutes 🤭There were also a lot of llamas next to the road, all dressed up with colorful thingies on rheir ears. When we arrived we drank a coffee and got some free internet. We decided to take a bus to Calama today, because we are a little bit in a hurry. Nina still wants to see andean condors in Arequipa (peru), and Eike wants to see the nasca lines (peru), but our flight to costa rica goes the 10th of march from Lima.
So we stay one night in Calama and see if we can go to Iquique tomorrow.
The busride was only about 2 hours, but the views were amazing! We drove through the atacama desert, and through the valley of death and the valley of the moon 😍
Calama (2200m) is a city in the middle of the desert, and is surprisingly green. But apart from that, it is not very interesting. We don't feel bad that we don't stay longer.
It was siesta when we arrived, but luckily we found a bank that was still open so we could get money and something to drink. It was very hot and sunny. We walked to the busstation and got tickets for tomorrow morning to Iquique.
Eike wanted to drink a beer, but the kiosks are not allowed to sell alcohol, and it is forbidden to drink on the street. It was also really not so easy to find a bar that was open, but after a while we found one.  A woman with a very short blue dress took our order. When she left, we realised all four waitresses were wearing the same very short and revealing blue dresses. It was a bit weird. It had a strange atmosphere, so we quickly drank our beers and left to the hotel. Our hotel room is this time a container 😅 the tv is working, and there is even working netflix on it, so we watched a movie and went to sleep.Baca lagi