Travelog post for: Sweet Mimi

Hola mamá! ¿Cómo estás?

Today I'm going to show you photos of the day we went to the Elqui Valley (valle del elqui). It is the place with the clearest sky in the world! That's why there are many obstervatories around these hills
Actually this was already a while ago but I haven't had many time to do updates because we've been traveling quite a lot

The valley is crossed along by a river, and can you believe there is a whole town under it!? One day in 1996 the inhabitants of Gualliguaica town were told they had to leave their houses because a dam was going to be built nearby and the next day their whole town was under water! It was rebuilt nearby but there are people still sad about it, specially old people who lived all their lives in their original town...



After about one hour going into the valley we got to its first town, Vicuña. This is the old city hall used around 1800 by the mayor and other politicians Now the main room is a museum where you can see pictures of the important guys who used to attend meetings there. I wonder how was this place when they were alive? how were their lives...? I bet they were very different to the traveler life I know so far



Then we took another bus to go deeper into the valley to a small town called Pisco Elqui

As we went further into the valley it became nicer and nicer! The mountanis were bigger and the fields greener!



Mum, this is the place with the clearest sky in the world!!



Leslie made me sit on a cactus! She said her excuse was the funny name of this cactus... although I think that's a pretty lame excuse! One of these days I'll put a cactus branch on her seat... let's see if she likes it!
Anyway, this is called "mother in law's cushion" (cojín de la suegra) I'm pretty sure that name was made by a mean man!



I'll write again soon!
Bye!

PS: my bum still hurts