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 El Tatio hot spring and
bathers by Glospi
Water is very hot in some areas of the pool, while in others it get colder, so one should keep moving to avoid get a burned pair o'buttocks (the warmer part is quite shallow).
Take an oversized beach blanket, as it feels very cold when you just get out of the water, and the only thing you want is to be protected of the chilly breeze while drying up.
There are no changing rooms. Bring an old bathing suit -if you're going to use one- because hot sulphurous, mineral water damages the synthetic fabric and elastic bands.
Personally, I prefer to bathe in the afternoon, so I can do it naked relaxedly, which is good as I have not to deal with a fast-freezing swimming short after getting out of the water. Note that, usually, people does not bathe in the nude in the mornings, unless groups are small and agree on that, since most older South Americans don't feel comfortable with nudity, although younger Chileans don?t mind.
Taken with Noblex135S panoramic, 29 mm. rotating-drum lens camera, 1/60 sec., f.16
(See Travelogues for more photographs) Leave a Comment Directions: This pool is located 1150 metres south of the main geyser area, on S 22º20'30,8"/ W 68º00'44,0" alt. 4307 mts./14,127 ft.
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 Vicunas 4 km. S of El Tatio by Glospi
Apart from the 2 or 3 species of small birds, there are foxes (Dusycion griseus), chinchillas (Chinchilla lanigera), vizcachas (Lagidium viscacia), a small family of pink flamingos (Phoenicopterus andinus) on the N side of the field, and mostly, vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna), an Andean camelid that make their nests on the lava scree fields on the E side of the flat, near the fresh water streams and a short distance from the pool.
Once they’re used to you, they may let you approach their nests, or thay may come to your camping place and even “talk” to you with their characteristical “chirping”; others would play and chase each other around you, just as if you were one of them.
Just don’t feed or scare them, and don’t destroy their shelters or nests. Look where the vicuñas drink water, to find out which streams are fresh and mineral-free.
Vicuñas usually are better spotted in the afternoons, when there are no tourists nor cars around, while flamingos can be seen right after dawn. Packs of vicuñas also roam in the hillsides south of El Tatio, and tour groups make photo stops when they come into
Nikon F4s, Nikkor 600 mm., f.5,6, 1/250 sec. handheld, POL filter Leave a Comment Directions: Around the E side of the geyser field, and in the last 5 kilometres of the road before the geysers
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 El Tatio Geysers 6am by cybergenic
You leave at 4am and drive for 2 hours through the dessert. Just as the sun begins rising you arrive to these huge spurts of steam blowing from the ground.
Our guide cooked our eggs and boiled our coffee water in the steam from a small geiser.
We ate breakfast with steam spurting up all around us. They don't smell too bad, but watch where you walk, it can be dangerous. A French tourist fell into one and died not so long ago. The reason you leave so early is so you arrive at the most hydrathermaly active time 6-8am. Leave a Comment Address: 2 hours drive from San Pedro townDirections: Best to take a tour as this place is in the middle of nowhere and the roads are quite bad.
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 by LuizLeave a Comment
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 Geysers at dawn by soncnica
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 Tatio by jsepulve
I used Colque tours, but I think that all of the tour companies are almost the same, in price and service. Leave a Comment
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 Geysers at El Tatio by swesn
El Tatio is a site at around 4500m, of geysers. To visit this fantastic place, tour agencies will pick you up at 4:00am to arrive at around 6:30am. This is the best time to view the geysers as the sun is rising and the geysers are waking up. The performance of the sprays and orchestra of hissing and bubbling has to be experienced.
However, being at such a high altitude at such an early hour means that it is TERRIBLY cold. Wear covered boots (even then, my toes were freezing), bring scarves and hats. Some parts of the ground may be unstable due to the volcanic activities below and thin crusts. The geysers are hot, an egg can be cooked in a few seconds, I was told. Yet, because of the cold, we kept veering near to the sprays to soak in the warmth. Leave a Comment
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 Geisyer by jsepulve
On piece of advice is take warm cloths because it is freezing up there (4300 meters).
Also the gieysers are at a high altitude, so you might get sick...I didnt have any problems, but there was a girl in our group who hardly left the car and felt sick the whole time. Leave a Comment
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 a geyser from the tour by bertje
ONE CATCH THOUGH!!!!! you'll have to get up at 03.00 hrs A.M. because the tours leave at 04.00 hrs. A.M.
this is because the activity of the geysers is the highest at about 06.00 hrs till 07.00hrs! A.M.
but it's worth it! Address: any tour operator in San pedro goes there!Directions: all in the mainstreet
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