{"id":360,"date":"2011-02-14T22:21:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T03:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/2011\/02\/valle-de-la-luna"},"modified":"2011-02-22T11:28:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T16:28:58","slug":"valle-de-la-luna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/2011\/02\/valle-de-la-luna","title":{"rendered":"Valle de la Luna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, February 14th-<\/p>\n<p>This morning I haggled a few companies for a big group discount on tours of the Atacama desert. We ended up with two tours: the Valle de la Luna (Valley of the Moon) tour today, and Lagunas Altiplanicas (high-elevation lakes) tour tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>Valle de la Luna is just outside of San Pedro. It&#8217;s a wholllle lot of crazy rock formations caused by violent tectonic and volcanic action over the past six million years.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58489710@N07\/5455242320\/'><img src='http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5259\/5455242320_8f203fedc5_b.jpg' border='0' width='640' height='480' style='margin:5px'><\/a><\/center><br \/>Our guide was a bit nuts, having led these tours for 12 straight years. He rocked the glacier goggles pretty well.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58489710@N07\/5454636999\/'><img src='http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5094\/5454636999_66ff0a1329_b.jpg' border='0' width='640' height='480' style='margin:5px'><\/a><\/center><br \/>Rock strata in <em>three<\/em> directions! Crazy!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58489710@N07\/5454637391\/'><img src='http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5251\/5454637391_48952943db_b.jpg' border='0' width='640' height='480' style='margin:5px'><\/a><\/center><br \/>This rock made little crumbling sounds when we were really quiet, which was disquieting in a safety sense.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58489710@N07\/5454637687\/'><img src='http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5052\/5454637687_4c1029404f_b.jpg' border='0' width='480' height='640' style='margin:5px'><\/a><\/center><br \/>Erosion explosion.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58489710@N07\/5455249196\/'><img src='http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5251\/5455249196_ebcd55e926_b.jpg' border='0' width='640' height='480' style='margin:5px'><\/a><\/center><br \/>Sunset over the valle.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58489710@N07\/5454638531\/'><img src='http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5020\/5454638531_a51365012c_b.jpg' border='0' width='640' height='480' style='margin:5px'><\/a><\/center><br \/>Julie hales the moon.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58489710@N07\/5455250024\/'><img src='http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5015\/5455250024_3eed875dd4_b.jpg' border='0' width='480' height='640' style='margin:5px'><\/a><\/center><br \/>All is quiet.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58489710@N07\/5455250226\/'><img src='http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5058\/5455250226_035c30689d_b.jpg' border='0' width='640' height='480' style='margin:5px'><\/a><\/center><br \/>Sweet tour. Tomorrow morning at 6:30am: high-altitude lakes and flamingos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, February 14th- This morning I haggled a few companies for a big group discount on tours of the Atacama desert. We ended up with two tours: the Valle de la Luna (Valley of the Moon) tour today, and Lagunas Altiplanicas (high-elevation lakes) tour tomorrow. Valle de la Luna is just outside of San Pedro. 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