The Road to Escondida via Paranal
This slideshow contains highlights of our trip to the north of Chile between the 14th and 17th August. Starting in Santiago, we travelled via La Serena to Parque Nacional Pan de Azucar and then on to Paranal, where we enjoyed a night at the telescopes where Rachel works.
We continued north and east, taking the Road to Escondida (of Eric Clapton fame) through the Atacama desert, past deserted (sorry) “ghost” nitrate towns and the largest open cast coppermine of the same name, to San Pedro de Atacama, at the edge of the largest salt lake in Chile (the Salar de Atacama).
