As I had put the tent in the shadow of the reservoir of water, the sun did not wake me up as usual at 8:00 so I could sleep one more hour. The sun did as well not warm the tent and the ground. For the first time it was “cold” but still 18C… How will I feel cold when it is below zero??<\/div>\n

Polo, the “water tank holder”, was talking much and it was quite hard to leave him… I understand his needs for conversation, but it started to get penetrant. If I would have place on the bike, I would took Perry, Polos female guard dog, back home: she would very well fit Pasco, the dog of Franziskas mother.<\/p>\n

The first kilometers of road were continuing to go up with 1-3% until what is looking like the top of a coline. In fact, the altimeter shows climbing all the time, with some flat parts in between. It is may be a fata morgana as you don’t really have the feeling of going up. More over, the road seems to go down.<\/p>\n

At one moment you start to see in direction of Bolivia which white messages: big clouds appears where the high mountains (over 5000m) should be…and some hundreds meters later the green Oasis Calama and ist Chuquicamata in the back.<\/p>\n

Calama appears about 25km from an elevation. Don’t ask me why, but even I could drive “quite fast” on the near flat road, it did not want to come closer.<\/p>\n

Arriving from Antofagasta, the first you see is the company preparing the explosifs for the surrounding mines: ammonium nitrate that is then mixed to fuel to a viscose and high explosive and very easy to handle gel. And just after passing the site, you smell as well the sulfure and nitrate in the air.<\/p>\n

I finally found a place to rest at the hostal “To\u00f1o” which has quite good price relation. As i did not have lunch I went out after the shower and bought some food at the chinese, which I ate in my room. I was so drained, that I slept two hours. And at eight, I went back in town for dinner… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Gud n8<\/p>\n

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