THURSDAY October 27th. 7:08 am. After sleeping only 1 hour, we woke up to realize that we where going to miss our flight, wich departure was at 8:15 am. Being the faster we could, we made it to the airport at 7:36 am, but the flight was already closed like 7 mins before. After some arguing and pay a small fee we board the next flight at 10:30 am. After 1 hour and 50 min of flight we arrive at 12:20 hrs, on a desert and very dry landscape. 
Antofagasta is located in the nort of Chile, it is the 5th most populated city in our country and its development is in base of the minery, so the city esthetically isnt the prettiest of our country, but its considered the capital steet riding. At 13:40 hrs we where already settled in. Feeling very tired we spend the day chill in the coastline of the city, rest and buy some food for the week.
DAY 2.
FRIDAY 4 Today, already settled and rested we start the day full throttle. 
We woke up at 10:30 chilling in the pool, then took a shower and made some lunch. We where out at 14:00 with our bikes in search of shoes for Oñate, then to a rent a car so the next day we could go to fulfill one of the goals in the trip, that was take some shots of the milky way in the paranal observatory, and in the desert hand. After that we head to local skatepark, that is a very fun bowl. We spend all day in there and came back to the dept at 22 hrs, to eat and sleep, cause tomorrow we have a very busy day.
DAY 3.
SATURDAY 5.6 am the alarm is already ringing. We woke up and then head to the Antofagasta main spot , to watch the dawn . Aprox at 9 am we head back to the flat and then to the paranal observatory at 130 km outside of Antofagasta at 2635 m above the sea. We arrive and we had to wait like 2 hours to get in. After a Little tour of the facilities and the telescopes we went to the and of the desert to make that pic i was waiting for … the Milky way. We where in there at 23 hrs enyoing the clear sky in the desert. After that we went home to eat something and sleep again. We drove 400 km that day.
DAY 4.
SUNDAY We woke up very tired, and it s 14 hrs and we just finished eating, but today its going to be mainly bmx. First we went to the mallcenter to get some bateries and a pant, then to the coast. Today the day turn out to be very boring. We spend almost all the day in one spot, to the dawn. Late that day we went to a skatepark with no bikes allowed , but we still manage to make some material in this spot that was in the antrance of a mall. Tomorrow we hope to go to Calama at 3 hours of Antofagasta, to the local skatepark.
DAY 5 AND 6
MONDAY AND TUESDAY. Today we where out at 12 pm to calama, at 220 km aprox of Antofagasta. Here we thought to spend the night in a hostal, but change our minds, bought a tent, and went to San Pedro of Atacama to spend the night there, at the Moon Valley. After spend some time in a Little town, at 12 am we went to the highway to find some place to put the tent , then at the desert we made some fire, some burgers and then to sleep. 
At 430 am we woke up, and head to the gaysers at a place called Tatio, the bigest ones in the southern hemisphere and the 3rd in the world. Aprox at 82 km of San Pedro of Atacama, at 4300 km above the sea level, we arrive at this spot to wait for the dawn at 640 am. At 12 pm we where back in San Pedro of Atacama and then head to Calama to get out bikes that where in the house of a local rider (Luis Gutierrez). Finally we head back to Antofagasta. 1300 km in 4 days. Not all the riding we where expecting, but still we had a blast. Achieved trip? 
Riders: Sebastian Venegas, Cristian Oñate, Cristobal Leyton, Enzo Villalon
Photography: Claudio Miranda Diaz
Thanks: Sebastian Ruiz, Jorge Rojas
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