Tom Goskar

Archaeologist, researcher, curator and folklorist

Tag: Atacama

  • San Pedro de Atacama

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    Here are some fun photos taken on my phone from around San Pedro de Atacama. The town is built mainly in adobe, which is effectively a mixture of clay-rich soil, straw, and sand. This is often mixed with stones, and walls are then rendered with a clay slip to finish and protect them. Adobe isn’t…

  • Adventures in Chile – Valle de la Luna

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    Imagine a landscape that is so barren, so alien, yet beautiful in its many forms. Shiny rock salt crystals glint and shine as the sun lowers in the sky. Small cave systems, organically shaped by water millennia ago, meander through gorges. This is Valle de la Luna, or Moon Valley, situated in the north of…

  • The Skies of Atacama

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    This first photo could well be accompanied by the Orb's “Little Fluffy Clouds” as a soundtrack. The skies here are simply incredible. This is the view over Moon Valley. As the sun sets the colours of the landscape change dramatically, framed by equally stunning skies, as the clouds change from white to red, to finally…

  • Adventures in Chile: Arriving in the Atacama Desert

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    Today we flew from Santiago to Calama in the north of Chile to continue our adventures. I haven’t had time to finish blogging about Santiago and Valparaiso yet, so expect a few out-of-sequence posts in the next few days. Soon after arriving we went on a tour of Valle de la Luna – Moon Valley…