The next day would become the most memorable experience of my trip. We started by crossing the desert to reach “Laguna Cejar”. The lake’s waters have a higher salt concentration than the Dead Sea, the buoyancy effect is amazing, you could spend hours playing in the water.

“I don´t like the desert, the south is my thing”, that’s what I have always said without ever having set foot in northern Chile. I arrived in San Pedro de Atacama without any expectations, though the place gave me the wink on the way to the hostel.

The alarm clock rings at 3:30 AM. We are camping at San Pedro, in the Atacama Desert, the driest of the world. We wake up early in the morning for a trip of almost 100 kilometres that will take us to the Tatio Geysers, one of the highest located geothermal fields of the world. We will ascend to more than 4300 in just...