Travelling experience in Atacama Desert

Since I was 15 years old I started my adventure of travelling alone, sometimes accompanied with a couple of friends, but those trips didn´t have to much adventure because we were too young. When I was 18 and I enter to the University my trips started to be different and travel become something necessary for me.



Travelling is the only way that I can feel completely free, It´s my time, my own direction, when I travel I disappear, I get unplugged of my responsibilities, my family and problems. When I travel the only thing that I do is enjoy, enjoy every minute, experiences and opportunities.



I have a memorable journey, it was during February of 2010, I went to the north of my country, Peru and Bolivia. At that time I went with only one friend, Valentina, we didn´t know us too much but we had a great experience. We started our trip in Santiago, we took a bus direct to Arica, from that city we started our adventure. We visited many places, a normal trip until we started to return to Chile from Bolivia, we didn´t have money so we had to hitch- hike, that was an experience because nobody wanted to lift two backpackers and it was unthinkable if we were Chilean. But after ten hours a truck driver led us. But when we were on the road to Calama we saw an advertisement that said San Pedro, obviously we were tempted. We asked the truck driver if it was San Pedro de Atacama and he answered yes, that the only thing that we had to do to reach there was follow the lights that were at the end of the way. Of course it was not San Pedro de Atacama, and we were alone in the desert, without water, food, expecting a solution from the sky because we did not have any idea of what to do. Suddenly I remember that i had my mobile phone charged so I decided to  call the police and I told them that we were lost in the mid of the desert, they give us some instructions and in few hours we were safe because they found us.