Elqui Valley

We rented bikes in Vicuña and explored parts of the Elqui Valley. We visited a pisco distillery, walked around a cute little town, dipped our toes in a river where locals like to excape to on weekends, and had got caught in a goat traffic jam.

In Vicuña we mostly wandered around, admiring cacti as usual, but also visited the Gabriela Mistral museum. I didn't know who she was before and feel a little ashamed since she was the first Latin American author/writer/poet to receive a Nobel Prize in literature, before the more well known, Pablo Neruda. She was a very accomplished, formidable woman who had to overcome many things in her time. I'm looking forward to give her writings a read.

We ended our time in the Elqui Valley with a stay at the wonderful Campo de Cielo Ecosustenable to see the stars. We ended up getting a bit more than we had planned for as a rare storm hit the area.

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