4:30am is too early, but that's the time the tour company picked us up so we could get to Tatio Geysers to watch the sun rise. El Tatio is at 4200 metres, has over 80 active geysers, is the largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere and the third largest in the world. The best time to see them is at sunrise when each geyser is surmounted by a column of steam that condenses in the bitterly cold morning air. We saw ice on the ground near the geysers."El Tatio" roughly translates to "the grandfather"."
The trip up to the geysers was brutal. The washboard road was so bad that our bus driver went off road onto the sands at a speed we could not believe. It took 1 1/2hrs to get to the site.
We had breakfast at the geysers. The tour group drivers put water, chocolate milk, regular milk and eggs in one of the hot pools so we can have coffee etc. On the way down we saw vicuna, vizcacha, llamas, coots and blue billed ducks.
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