Today we headed for San Pedro de Atacama in the middle of the Chilean Atacama desert. This has been a destination that has been on my “must see” list for years so we were both quite excited to get there.
The ongoing ride through the desert means that there was not much to stop for to take pics but the starkness of the desert is peaceful and beautiful.
It seems that the Range indicator on the BMW is faulty. When we left TalTal it read a fuel range of 230km with the fuel onboard, however, as soon as we were far enough away from TalTal it suddenly dropped to 100km with 150km to go to the closest petrol station. This resulted in doing the next 150km through the desert at a speed of 80km/h in order to conserve fuel…Boring doesn’t begin to describe this!!
Our days ride…
Valley of the moon…
We arrived in San Pedro de Atacama at around 18h00 and checked into an amazing Relais and Chateaux hotel called Awasi where we are spending the next 2 nights. The accommodation, service, and food is awesome and we are looking forward to the rest.
Licancabur Volcano..
