Pan de Azúcar

I don’t  like beach very much, but ones I really fall in love with a beautiful beach, It’s on north of the country  in Atacama, this name is “Pan de Azúcar”(means sugar loaf )  in borough Caldera. 

 

Pan de Azucar is a gorgeous place, and very important too, because is a natural reserve, in 1985 was proclaim National Park. This Park is between the and the desert and  have many attractive, one of them is a very weird kind of rocks calls “orbicular rocks” (granito orbicular in Chile), that are only in six place of the whole world, and looks like leopard spots. 

You can go for a walk and see wonderful things that you can’t found in other place of Chile, the second deepest trench of the world, several kind of cactus, some very tall and impressive and some very little but with very peculiar and beautiful flowers and the Humbolt’s penguin Island and believed or not, this island in front of the most dry desert of the world really have penguins!

In the way to the park are small fisher settlement called “Caleta Pan de Azucar” where you can eat tipical food and talk whit the fishermen,  are little beach to swim for later follow to the most amazing place of the Park.  In this place you have a great view of the Pacific Ocean  but from the very high cliff and if you look for west you can see the Atacama Desert in all its splendor, for this reason this landscape is magical. 

Great view, isn't?