2098 Into Chile, still in the Collasuyu province of the Inca empire.
2099 Convoys of smuggling from the Pacific to Bolivia.
2100 Progressive change of society.
2101 End of many months at 4,000 meters and above.
2102 Tarapacá Desert: geoglyphs.
2103 Getting used to lower altitudes.
2103 Again, absolute sand desert ... wrapped in dense fog.
2106 Strange tamarugo trees.
2109 Cerros Pintados, geoglyphs.
2110 Hearing archaeological voices of the year 6000 a.C.
2111 Creakings in the soil.
2111 Tropical desert with ... breath condensation.
2111 Full-length Beaumarchais theater on Argentinian radio.
2111 Classical music, origin unknown.
2111 Tasteful light music, origin unknown.
2112 Quillagua oasis, with uncommon mummies, and petroglyphs.
2112 More geoglyphs ... ¿or geograffiti?
2113 Entering famous Atacama Desert.
2114 Geoglyphs and petroglyps of the future.
2116 About that dog bite, no rabbies in Chile; hoof-and-mouth disease neither.
2118 Across an other-worldly mixture of salt-flats and volcanoes.
2119 Up again to 3,700 meters.
2120 In the middle of nowhere, with temperatures down to -13ºC, leak in the >>>>>antifreeze-heating system.
2121 Emergency by-pass performed, but antifreeze protection lost.
2122 Cut off the outside world by snow falls over the salt-flats.
2125 Amongst sulphur and snow, above real oxygen, 6,130 meters up the Andes.
2127 Unmistakable Vespuccian mental automatism over short waves.
2128 New (Vespuccian) battery must be replaced by new (German) battery.
2128 Humane civilization.
2128 Even the carabineros are intelligent and gentlemen.
2129 A couple of stupidities, of course.
2130 An intelligent idea in postage stamps.
2130 Llama meat.
2130 Why does Chilean surf fascinate us?
2131 This desert, in summer, must be a cali-fornia (in winter, in shade 32ºC).
2131 Seeing a sheep-herd in panic where there is no sheep.
2131 Did we really hear a "shooting star"?
2132 What is the interest of, say, Bulgaria, to broadcast in Spanish to South >>>>>America?
2132 Cracking of caliche (native saltpeter) into natural nitrate et al.
2136 A fascinating one-man (Castellón) archaeological research-team and museum >>>>>in the desert (María Elena).
2141 Short waves: Arab music, as if to suit this desert.
2142 Short waves: with no reference to the game, we knew it was baseball.
2143 Weird animals; cows, we are told.
2144 Christian mummies.
2147 Mummies changing with the passing of time; and of foreigners.
2148 Will we be able to reach Argentina over that pass, untraveled, and in >>>>>danger of being snowed under any time?
2149 Salt-flats and volcanoes.
2149 Finally, out of the ... "Tropics".
2150 Many animal skeletons.