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Posted by luke_l | 4th October 2007
If you ever want to feel like your on a different planet but want to avoid the overheads of space travel and the side effects of drugs then get yourself down to the Bolivian desert. It really is another world.
It´s a tough journey though, definitely not for the faint hearted. There were 9 of us in a 4x4 designed for 7. The driver, his wife who did the cooking, their 2 year old daughter Karen and 6 of us gringos ready for action.
We started with a tour at the lunar vally on the border of Bolivia and Chile...
I went Sandboarding and actually pulled it off (unlike my snowboarding)


The lunar valley itself is incredible....

From there we started the overland 3 day journey. You realise how remote this ìs going to be when you hit Bolivian Immigration (this is it.