A guided tour that worked...

Unlike the ´climbing guides´, the tour guides around San Pedro are excellent. Our guide on this strictly tourist trip, standing opposite the authentic old Chilean lady whose small farm we visited, was fantastic, and really gave us a good time.

The old Chilean lady was almost blind with cataracts. She lives in the village of Tocanao at 3500m asl, where the light is as harsh as the winters. It´s a hard life. She, has a subsistence existence and no money for treatment.

She is 49 years old.
And she is now a little bit richer.

The company was really good fun, we were in it together with a mix of Spanish, French and English for all. There were no Krautalikes. The flamingoes were pretty cool too.