Our lovely hotel in San Pedro – a small town of a few streets in the middle of the desert: We took a morning trip to the ALMA base station – the antennae themselves are at 5000m altitude so they don’t take visitors there… By luck there was an antenna ‘in the workshop’ so…
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5th December – Antofagasta and the Very Large Telescope
After an overnight (reasonably comfortable) coach journey from La Serena, we had a driver collect us from the bus station to squire us around for the day. First stop: brunch with a view of the Antofagasta fishing port: Next stop ‘La Portada‘ – the natural ‘monument’ just outside Antofagasta – a sea-arch: Then it…
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