{"id":7717,"date":"2025-03-30T13:47:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T17:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=7717"},"modified":"2025-03-30T13:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T17:47:23","slug":"atacama-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=7717","title":{"rendered":"Atacama Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4386.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4386.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4386-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption>Licancabur Volcano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We arrived in San Pedro de Atacama \u2014 the high desert \u2014 yesterday afternoon via Santiago. It is beautiful. The Andres are in sight and the landscapes are unbelievable. Awasi Hotel is amazing. This morning our guide drove us an hour or so away to see the salt flats and flamingoes &#8211; so beautiful, and we also enjoyed seeing the avocets. We pulled over on the side of the road to see burrowing owls (!) and feral donkeys (there\u2019s a lot of them wandering around). On the way home, we stopped to let a lot of sheep and goats cross the highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4385.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4385.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4385-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Monday was a holiday and I spent the day getting clothes and other things ready to be packed and sent to Hot Springs. My car also started its journey home as well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4372.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4372.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_4372-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>See you in Hot Springs!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John and I have been enjoying \u201cThe Residence\u201d on tv. I finished \u201cPlayworld,\u201d by Adam Ross and am reading \u201cA Well-Trained Wife,\u201d by Tia Levings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We arrived in San Pedro de Atacama \u2014 the high desert \u2014 yesterday afternoon via Santiago. It is beautiful. The Andres are in sight and the landscapes are unbelievable. Awasi Hotel is amazing. This morning our guide drove us an hour or so away to see the salt flats and flamingoes &#8211; so beautiful, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7721,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions\/7721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}