Explorers Blog Entry 6

I am visiting the Atacama Desert in Chile. The capital of Chile is Santiago and the countries that border Chile are Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. The Pacific Ocean borders Chile. 35˚40'30.50" S 71˚32'34.72" are the GPS coordinates of the Atacama Desert. It is very rocky, flat and 50 times drier than the California's Death Valley in the Atacama Desert. The desert is 20 million years old. It is the driest desert in the world. The Atacama Desert is 11088 miles from the Gobi Desert. I got to my fifth location by plane and then car. It cost around 6,000 for everything to get to the Atacama Desert from the Gobi Desert. I had some problems when going to the desert from the airport in Chile because we got the truck stuck a couple of times. The Atacama Desert is so much drier from the Gobi Desert it is not even funny!!