 Welcome to Chinataltal! I'm Lavi and I'm Oli and this is our hero Bumblebee Together we are attempting a Guinness World Record to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle Join us for season 3 here in South America! It's already 8 o'clock but we are still sleeping Listen how nice and quiet it is Can't hear anything That's the sound of the Atacama Desert Time for some cocky Thank you my love Good morning world! Welcome back to the channel It's day number 293 on our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle And we had a beautiful, peaceful, quiet camp last night here in the middle of the Atacama Desert It was just amazing Yeah, look around us It is absolutely incredible here Nothing, no plants no animals It's super cloudy everywhere actually So it looks like it's going to rain but it never rains here It's literally the driest place in the world And today we're going to be heading deeper into this beautiful desert So let me show you guys where we're headed So we are here just outside of the Park Nationale Panda Azucar And today we're going to be riding our last ride of this leg 180 miles north to reach Antofagasta Yeah, I'm super excited because it's going to be a beautiful ride today And I'm also really happy that we reached our goal to go in four days to Antofagasta So we still have to pack up everything and we still have a long way to go So better hit the road, let's go Can you believe it? It's now 100% blue skies around Whoa The sun just burned away Everything So we named our drones now And this one, the Mavic Mini, is called Pinky And our Mavic Pro is called The Brain You can just spend probably a week, two weeks, a month I don't know exactly around this area here Just take all the little dirt tracks around Yeah, I want to just ride over there I want to ride over there, I want to ride over there Wow Yes, you just have to make sure that you take enough water with you No point waiting for rain Yeah, what an area, hey? I just love the colours around Or like the one colour It's beautiful, absolutely beautiful here Wow, and in the night, the sky was so bright Full of stars I could really nicely see the Milky Way At different star signs It was cool It's actually a very, very popular place for stargazing And they even have major, major observatories in the Atacama Desert So yeah, it's really the perfect place to see the night sky And this place is so dry that they even use the Atacama Desert to practice their Mars rover missions Cool If there was ever a Martian landscape on Earth It would be this desert right here And they tested some riverbeds here, some scientists They found that there had been no sign of rain for at least 150,000 years And since they started recording the weather There have been some areas in this desert That have never received rain It's so unbelievable So I mean, it really is the world's driest desert And it really earns that title Even the wetter parts of the desert We're talking like one mill of rain a year It's a dry place So we just come back on the route of five highway And we've got about 180 miles now to reach Antofagasta We do have one stop before we get there Which is to visit the Mano del Desierto Which is the hand of the desert Now we've seen quite a lot of hands so far on this journey But I think this one is going to be the coolest hand that we'll have seen so far I can't wait! Look at this guys We're just stopping at this little rest area Because on the bins they have some vultures Look at these guys Wow, look Small movements, small movements Okay, okay, okay, wait, I stop here, I stop here Very cool How can they live here? You know, what are they eating? It's like the human rubbish is the only way that any animal can survive here Wow Absolutely incredible Oh, look, look, look There you go, a little bit of Atacama wildlife Bye bye guys, have a good life Look at this petrol station This is like the only one in like a hundred miles There isn't anything here, it's just like two sides of the pumps There's no shop around us, it's just the same desert You're very bad, right? From Germany? Yes And England? England Yes What's your name? Haiti Haiti Haiti Where? Oh Haiti Haiti Haiti Oh no In the Creole Creole, okay Creole, oh Yes, a little bit of French as well Hello, my name is Lavigne My name is J.V. Pierre Pierre, nice to meet you Thank you Thank you, a Creole? It's my French Oh, thank you Ah, okay Germany Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Welcome to Chinataltal So I thought whilst we were riding through this empty empty place I would give you a few little facts about the Atacama Desert So the desert is 1,000 miles long or 1,600 kilometers and it stretches all the way up to Bolivia and some people argue that even it continues all the way up to Peru but some people say that that's a different desert They can't really decide but it's a very, very long desert and the dryness of the desert is actually due to the fact that you've got the Andes on one side and on the other side the Chilean coastal range So this creates the special geographical conditions that basically mean that it doesn't rain here So it's crazy that here even mountain peaks over 6,000 meters high have no snow on them because there's literally just no water to make snow Crazy stuff But despite the harsh conditions there is some life that's able to survive in some places So you have vicunas living here guanacos, foxes, mice you've got lizards, grasshoppers some other insects and even in some seasons butterflies I did see a butterfly yesterday You did? Yes, a yellow butterfly What are they doing here? Something that most people don't realise as well is that penguins live here I mean they live on the coast but they're still residents of the Atacama The humble penguins Exactly There's a penguins Does it, penguins? Yeah, it's a very special place here Definitely It's basically like a place where we aren't supposed to be but we can temporarily be here and ride through it It's just beautiful Just pulled off the side of the highway to have a little snack What are you having there? Just a spoon of peanut butter We nearly run out of supplies and here are no shops or anything You can't really buy anything So now we spoon the peanut butter Have a look out here I mean Look at this place Rocks after rocks after rocks after rocks There's a big hill over there It's just crazy here I mean you could walk all day in this direction and you'd probably just get over to those hills Beautiful rocks Look at this Coming out from a volcano this one because it's all got the bubbles in it Beautiful It's like so big but there's so many awesome little things to discover out here Oh I think I can see it up ahead El mano del desierto The hand of the desert Awesome Wow A little bit too confident and all of a sudden Oh I think we missed the road actually The road is That would explain why it turned into into that Oh Jesus Wow look at that Yeah here we go El mano del desierto The hand of the desert Oh look at this Wow It's bigger than expected Wow That's massive Cool Look how big that thumb is Whoa Nice Wow Cool Nice So we've decided we're going to have a little ride down one of these side tracks just because they look so inviting Look at them Yeah they look actually in good conditions as well Nice We thought we were just doing our very own off-road training Yeah let's see how it goes Oh God Up the hill and down the hill Oh my God I don't know if I want to go any further It looks really like up and down Oh my God you can go all the way up there Yeah you can see that people have like gone up the hills here, up the hills here, up the hills here If only we had a motocross bike hey Two motocross bikes one each and we could just race around these hills Next trip I didn't really think about how steep this hill was actually up to the hand But we've turned the bike around and now we're going to do it back up the other side A little bit sandy, it's okay Yeah it's alright Yeah power up And this bike is so capable Beautiful Goodbye hand of the desert Protect us in the desert here We actually wanted to have our lunch break next to the hand but it's way too windy up there Oh Jesus look at this What is that Some big rocks Yeah man it's like crazy windy up there And it's like we wanted to have noodles and coffee, two things that required us to use our stove and cook up and it's like there's no chance to be able to do it there So we're going to continue a little bit further and then we'll find a parking place that's a little bit less windy where we can have a proper break It literally looks like we've just entered like a Mad Max town here What is this place Look it's a giant penguin Yeah I mean it looks really run down here and so industrial and dusty and just trucks here It looks actually like a film set Yeah it looks like like a post apocalyptic town where the world has been incinerated and you're left with just like a desert and some dusty shacks Oh look even the palms they don't like it here Oh no the palm trees have died Oh no Oh my God And there's a giant mining facility over here and you can see the whole land on the other side is also in mind and all the buildings are covered in like this white dust Oh my God Yeah look at the cars here If you spend too much time here You get covered in dust Even the palm trees covered in dust The dead palm Yeah I mean no rain hey No rain There's a lot of sand and a lot of dust Yeah Crazy place So should we just stop and have some food then Yeah At least it's not windy Okay we were a little bit naughty We were supposed to cook up our own coffee and instant noodles but they had these like Knots burgers so these vegetarian plant based burgers that you take out the fridge and they heat up for you with some red bulls so Lunch has been upgraded Okay look at that What do you think Tastes better than the real burger That's pretty good All right burger, red bull over it's time to leave this dusty town So we're only 15 miles out of Antofagasta now By the way look at this thing here I think it's a cement maker It was We just checked on Airbnb as well and we found a room for about 22 pounds It was the cheapest room in town and it's literally just a bed in the room Nothing more Yeah this town Antofagasta is not very cheap I spoke to one of the locals here and he told me that the prices are sort of inflating because it's a mining area around here There's a lot of money here and so that sort of inflates the prices of everything 22 pounds is pretty much the cheapest thing we could find But it will do It will do quite anything Well it's all happening down here on the coast Look at this You've got apartment blocks You've got a football field You have the ocean Ta-da We've got some really cool hills Cool motorcross Wow what a place hey And you can immediately feel the temperature change as well because inland it was 30, 31, 32 and here on the coast is down to 25 degrees So you can tell why everyone wants to live here and not in dust town So yeah now we have a little bit of a traffic jam in front of us It's like 6.2 miles in just 23 minutes But anyway we have ocean view So I'm not complaining There's a massive stadium over there Look at these multi-coloured apartment blocks or condos as they call it And here the palm trees can survive Yes But it's crazy So even here it never rains I think even here I mean we're in the Atacama So even here despite all this grass and palm trees it still doesn't rain here All of this clouds that we see is just more of that sort of marine fog as they call it So unbelievable Antifagasta is like smack bang in the middle of the Atacama From here you've got 500 miles of desert north 500 miles of desert south Probably 500 miles of desert inland So yeah an absolutely crazy place But you would not realise it when you're actually here Look at this guy There's another one another mask man Oh No Oh my lord That was scary Back on the bike Yeah we reached our accommodation But we didn't clear with them that we needed parking for the motorcycle and we were saying oh should we just leave it on the curb on the street in front of the house But one of the guys living at the accommodation basically said to us no that's not really a good idea here It's a bit dangerous at night for the bike if you're going to leave it right in front of the curb Yeah so actually it's really annoying because now we have to go right around and try to find a parking So we found on the map this place safe parking and car wash Okay So we're going to see Do you do parking vehicle parking here Apacara vehicle or here? Yes? Are you speak English? Oh no So so For two nights Okay It's It's a lot of weight 250 Kilo Yeah Okay Here she is Bumblebee safe and sound Inside the safe parking In the capable hands of Rafael Gracias Rafael Let's start walking Good evening guys We made it happy and alive Yes finally A little bit exhausted There was a really really hard arrival here to run off and find the parking place for Bumblebee Yeah the first time that we haven't actually checked in advance to see if they had parking we were just like oh yeah it'll be fine and then they tell us No it's actually not fine to park out here Probably not very safe in the night So Stay safe now and in the capable hands of Rafael at safe parking Seems like a good place but then as well the computer because the computer stopped working Yeah basically yesterday suddenly the whole thing shuts down and then doesn't start back up again Right in the middle of trying to transfer our shots onto it so we were like okay we stopped for today we can't do anything So when I got it here opened it up tried to turn it on and we had three beeps which basically means that there's an issue with the RAM You take out the RAM and I'm testing there's two RAM slots and two RAM sticks so I testing the RAM slots in each one and it's super inconclusive and I couldn't really figure out what was going on but I switched them around a couple of times took them out, put them back in again and now it boots it up again So however this configuration is we're just going to leave it because apparently those two RAM sticks and those two RAM slots in that way seems to boot up so fingers crossed that's going to continue But otherwise the ride was really awesome today just epic views around riding around the Atacama Desert is just mind blowing it's so super beautiful Yeah we were finally getting into the real real desert where nothing grows and it never rains and the landscape was just like really Martian and really just unbelievable and we're only about halfway into this desert so I'm super excited to keep going it's just I love desert riding Yes we do So we did at the end 210 miles which is about 340 kilometers and that's it from us today we hope you enjoyed the video if so please give us a thumbs up subscribe to the channel share the video with your friend and family comment below and we will see you next time So if you ever have a problem turning on your computer just take out the RAM a bunch of times and put it back in again and apparently then it works