Top 5 reasons to visit Chile – Atacama Desert – Geyser del Tatio

Top 5 reasons to visit Chile

The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a plateau in South America, covering a 1,000-kilometre (600 mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains. It is the driest non-polar desert in the world.According to estimates the Atacama Desert proper occupies 105,000 square kilometres (41,000 sq mi), but its size rises to 128,000 square kilometres (49,000 sq mi) when the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included.Most of the desert is composed of stony terrain, salt lakes (salares), sand, and felsic lava that flows towards the Andes. (Source – Wikipedia)

The driest place on Earth, so why would you want to go there, you may ask?

Well here’s a glimpse of the Geyser del Tatio which are at an altitude of 4300 meters and when we were there, before sunrise, the temperature was -8 degrees celsius.