Chile - finaly am here and flight info of course!

After 4 days of drive true the salt/sand desert and the altiplano of Bolivia in a 4x4 car I reached Chile and San Pedro de Atacama. This areas is just amazing, and would be fun to fly here some time. The only problem is that the area is high, around 3600 meter of average but then again you can land almost all over the place. There where dustdevils all over and it is the first time I ever seen a "saltdevil". At the picture you see my own way of getting some airtime in Bolivia without a glider :-)

The Atacama desert in Chile is a exelent place to fly and reaches from the Andean range to the pacific coast. Here you can see some pictures Max Spiess have taken from the coast area of the Atacama desert:
http://www.ozreportradio.com/misc/chile/100_0494.JPG
http://www.ozreportradio.com/misc/chile/IQQ2004%20Gone.jpg
http://www.ozreportradio.com/misc/chile/100_0474.JPG

The coast town Iquique offers some of the best flying for paragliders and hanggliders in Chile. You can take a look at the web page of the local paraglider club:
http://www.parapenteiquique.cl/

Tommorow i go flying here in the Santiago area, Max Speiss have arranged whit some other pilot to lend me a Wills Wing Ram air. more info later....