We started the morning walking around town to work out which tours to do and which companies to go with. We followed the advice we'd read online and went to the tourist office, although the woman behind the desk seemed really put out, and we also saw her being quite rude to other people. In the tourist office was a list of accredited tour companies, and folders with customer feedback. We worked through the information (nearly all complaints, many about not being collected for a tour) and narrowed it down to three companies with good reviews, for the tours around SPdA, as well as the three day trip to Uyuni in Bolivia, which we planned to do after here.
We visited all three companies, we'd read that the overnight stops on the Uyuni trip were in poor conditions i.e. dorm rooms and cold showers, so K was very relieved when the third company we visited offered private rooms - crisis averted!
We headed off at 4pm on the tour to the Valley de Luna not far from SPdA, which took us to an area with an amazing moon like landscape and huge sand dunes and canyons, and returned after watching a great sunset.
The atmosphere is so dry that apparently you sweat but it immediately evaporates so you sweat more, meaning you have a constant feeling of dryness and thirst. Luckily we were both coping with the altitude so far, though we are aware that we are in training for our trip to Bolivia, as the altitude change on the first day is pretty big, and we had heard that it can be difficult if enough time hasn't been spent acclimatising beforehand.
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