 Come on, Bumblebee! Well, at this altitude, you can really feel the difference. Wow, I'm so out of breath. We're both pretty affected by the altitude, I reckon. Hi, 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 three here in South America. Good morning, world. Welcome back to the channel. It's day number 299 on our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. Good morning, Bumblebee. The sun is just rising here in the Atacama Desert in Chile. And we camped last night at the end of this little dirt track next to this river. Have a look around. Behind us, we can see the Atacama Salt Flats. It's absolutely spectacular view for the morning. But we have an exciting day ahead. So let me show you guys where we're heading today. So today, we are going to be heading further down into the Reserve Nacional Los Flamencos to check out some lakes around here, some lakes around here, some beautiful mountains before heading back up to this area just south of San Pedro de Atacama. Yesterday is Salt Lakes Day. Yes. And if we are really lucky that we can see flamencos and maybe we might even swim in the Salt Lake. So that would be so cool. It's really funny because we have donkeys here as our neighbors. We could hear them in the night like, ah, ah, ah. In German, we say, er, er. You do an amazing donkey impression. Thank you. So but anyway, we still have to pick up everything and it's already 8 o'clock, so better hit the road. Let's go. Have a look down here. There's a beautiful river oasis right next to where we camped last night. Look at that. So green here. And then look right next to us. It's just sand. It's crazy. And then you can feel the altitude up here. I think we're something like 3,000 meters above sea level up on the Alta Plano. And we are all packed up and ready to go. It's a beautiful but a little bit of a crazy little dirt track with a little bit of sand. The right thing to wake up in the morning, hey? Exactly. Nothing like a beautiful challenge in the morning. Bye bye, beautiful camp. I had such a peaceful night. I slept really well. Yeah, apart from the odd sound of donkeys in the night, it was totally silent. No one around. Yeah, it was a beautiful spot. That was a little bit of sand sliding. So we're making our way first over to a town called Soquer and there we have to check in because we actually reserved and bought our tickets online. Yeah, the tickets were per person 15 pounds. But they give you entry to multiple areas and sites of this national reserve because pretty much everything you can see here is part of the Los Flamencos National Reserve. And so today we're starting off by going to the lagoon sector. And there we should be able to see some Flamencos. Yes. OK, hold on a minute. OK. So I have to be really careful here because it's a bit of rubbish around. Maybe some nails, maybe some glass. We don't want to flat our brand new Analyst Cabra X tires, that's for sure. There's not many places to find a replacement out here. Beautiful, look at this. Awesome. I love it. Hold on, bit of sand. Slow down for the sand. There you go, back on the main road. Awesome. Wow, what a location, eh? You can really see the volcanoes now on the background here and they are just massive. And then on the right, the big salt flats of the Atacama. It's just a stunning area. Absolutely stunning. Guys, look. We just reached the Tropic of Capricorn. Woo hoo hoo. Wow. Cool. Ruta del Desierto Tropico del Capricorno. Nice. Nice. That's so cool because this reminds me when we reached the Tropic of Cancer in the Sahara. We reached the Tropic of Cancer. Nice. And now we've reached the Tropic of Capricorn. Is that a milestone or what? And thanks to Nikos, we have a sticker to put on it. Woo hoo hoo hoo hoo. La Vianolle, there forever on the Tropic of Capricorn. Awesome. Oh, that's awesome. Beautiful, checking complete. And now we are on our way to the first lagoons. So the first place we're going is called Salad de Aguascalientes. So that's like, I think, the salty hot water. I think. So the whole of the Los Flamencos National Reserve covers an area of 740 square kilometers. And the reserve actually goes up to an elevation of 4,800 meters, which is absolutely crazy. So we have about an hour right now to reach our first stop. And as you can see around us, it looks already epic. So it's going to be a quite nice ride. Our first Chilean guanacos. Hello, guys. Beautiful. Oh, the whole family. Yeah. Well, they might be Vaikunas. I don't really know the difference between a Vaikuna and a guanaco. So we'll call them Vaikuanacos. And it is freezing up here. Hey, it's like 13 degrees. Yeah, I'm really cold too. Yeah, and you can really feel the difference in the power of Bumblebee, like a bit sluggish. So we are really, really high up now. I don't know how high up, but we are really high. Well, here we go. We're coming down into the Agua Caliente salt flats. Look at that view, hey? Absolutely amazing. It really feels like we are in a plane just landing on another planet, hey? Oh my god. Wow. I think that's a guanaco on the salt flats. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's funny. He's like, where's the grass? The Agua is caliente, aquí. No, name. Oh, just the name. Agua caliente es donde nace el agua, donde sale. Dimeo, here, the cold, the water, fría. Ah, OK. ¿Por qué Agua Caliente? The volcano. Ah, the volcanoes. The volcanoes, volcano Miniquez. Miniquez? Wow, crazy. The staff at the center here just told us that we are sitting at 4,100 meters above sea level here. Whoa. Woo. Yeah, crazy, no wonder we felt a little bit out of breath. Man, 4,100 meters. Yeah, it really takes your breath away. It takes my breath away. Yeah, but this is actually the highest we have ever been in our entire lives, not in a plane, of course. And she was also telling us that the volcano Miniquez, which is this one right behind us, is 5,900 meters tall. Wow, 5,900 meters above sea level. Yeah, well, I said we're really high up. We're really high up here. Whoa, look down there. And we can actually smell the volcanic sulfur gases coming off of the water. So these are not lagoons that we can swim in, unfortunately. Time to dive off into the pool. You have your swimming shorts underneath, eh? Look at this. Awesome, look at this. Got these crazy red rocks just over this, like, green, blue lake with this yellow shore. I mean, it's just a multi-color volcanic paradise here. Wow. Wow, I'm so out of breath. Oh my God, really. I never had this experience. I feel like a little bit dizzy, a little bit, like, that I can't walk very fast. I think it's like the feeling when you have just completed a marathon or something like this, you know? So we're on our way back to Bumblebee, and I'm really hot now. Oh, man. It's just a little bit of elevation here. We're climbing a little bit up and we're getting hot instantly. Hot and exhausted. I think this trail is only like a one-kilometer trail, but, man, it's taken it out of us, especially with our motorbike trousers boots on, man. Yes, I can see Bumblebee. Our walking for the day is over. We're not that fit anymore. No, no. That's for sure. If you have a bike to ride to everywhere, it's like, yeah, that's the dream. It makes life a bit too easy, perhaps, but anyway. All right, I think it's time for lunch then, eh? Yes, Bumblebee! Just where we left at. Got some egg and onion sandwiches and some more goat's cheese, of course. At least I'm gonna get through that. And some boiled potatoes with mayonnaise. Actually, apparently you're not supposed to eat in this park, but we asked over here and they said that it was okay for us to eat next to the bike, so we'll just quickly have a sandwich and get on our way. Amazing view of Volcano Menizquez here. Look at this. We're like right up at the front of it and that is like nearly 6,000 meters high. We're now heading to our second destination of the day, Laguna Menizquez and Laguna Menizquez. Is that correct? Something with M. And for that, we have to head now on this dirt track up into the mountains in front. It looks like a really epic road to get up there. Wow, this is epic here. Yeah, very cool landscape. Yeah, we've never ridden through anything like this. Look at these rocks. These piles of rocks everywhere. Yeah. Like winding sandy track. Well, we're coming up now, getting some views, but this road is a little tricky, I must admit. It's not the easiest. No, and with the high altitude as well, man, it's making me a little bit exhausted. Power. Come on, pump the beer. Well, at this altitude, you can really feel the difference. Ah, here we go. Sector Miscanti Menizquez, Reserva Nacional Los Flamencos. Nice. Hola, buenas. Hola. Hola. ¿Cómo estás? Bien, bien. Bien. Bien. No, Inglaterra. Inglaterra. ¿Su nombre? Hector. Hector. Mucho gusto, Hector. Ya. Mucho gusto. Bienvenido a tu lugar. Gracias. Well, coming up over Laguna Miscante. Whoa. It's a massive lagoon. Wow. Yeah. Beautiful. So actually I read into about the formation of these lagoons. Okay. And apparently originally, it was like a collection of rivers that were heading from the big volcanoes and mountains here, down, basically down to where we came from. But then apparently, there was a massive volcanic eruption and that created a big dam, basically. But effectively this volcanic eruption pushed up this side, creating a huge dam and that allowed these lakes to form. Cool. Unbelievable. Very cool. Whoa, here we go. Here's the second lagoon, Laguna Miguez. Beautiful. Oh yeah, look at that. Absolutely beautiful. You can see down there the fake guanacos. Oh yeah. Baikunas down there. And you can see a few birds along here. According to the sign, those are Tagua Cornudas. But no flamingos here, hey? No. We spent two days in the Los Flamingos National Reserve and we haven't found any flamingos yet. Really sad. But it's absolutely spectacular landscape here. I mean, wow. Hello, little guys. Oh my God, look at these guys. Whoa. Oh, they're chasing each other. Crazy guys. Bit of a Baikuna argument there. All right, on our way back down again from the awesome lagoon landscape. And we'll now be making our way back to the town Soquerre. Or I think actually one of the people we met told us it was pronounced Soquerre. Yeah, because it's a little bit difficult to visit the places around this area here. Apparently everything is online now and you have to sort of book your slot when you want to go and visit a place. You can't really just rock up and say, oh, I want to see this place now. They really insist of you booking your slot in. Now we will go back to this town and then we do a little bit more research and see what we still will be able to see for today and for tomorrow. Yeah, because we're just planning on spending one more day inside this big reserve area because there are still quite a few more awesome things to see, including the crazy geyser field which we are definitely going to tomorrow. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's a musty, a musty. I'm so excited. But yeah, let's see what we can reserve tickets online for and let's see how much time we have and what we can see. Just stopping for a rest in Socaire. We're both pretty affected by the altitude, I reckon. We've both got a big headache and feeling pretty tired, actually. Yeah, and it's just half day, actually. I'm ready for bed. Yeah, and we didn't like exert a whole huge amount of energy, you know? We just did like a one kilometer walk and then we were just riding around on the bike. So I think we are not acclimatized basically to this altitude, to like 4,000, 4,000 plus meters. And yeah, it's affecting us a little bit. Uh-huh, yeah, I can definitely feel it. Okay, so after a bit more research, we found that our next destination, which was a place called Laguna Sejar, which is a lagoon that you can actually swim in, is actually closed to the public from one PM onwards every day. But luckily, we could book ourselves in for tomorrow at 9 o'clock. Woo-hoo! Yes, swim in the Salt Lake, in the Atacama Desert. Uh-huh. Yeah, so that place being closed, combined with the fact that we both have banging headaches at the moment, means that we are just gonna head for a camp right now and have a chance to rest and recover and hopefully acclimatize a little bit. So we found one place on Ioverlanda, which is not too far away from here and it's pretty close to this lagoon that we're heading to tomorrow morning. So we just gotta ride over there and see if it's all right to camp. All right, this is our turn off towards our wild camp. Wow, you know, for an unpaid road, I mean, this is a spectacular unpaid road. Look at this. It's better than Tarmac. It's better than some Tarmac roads we've been on, that's for sure. It's really funny because this spot on Ioverlanda is called Lonely Tree. So basically we're looking out for very lonely tree to camp under and we can give them some company for the night. So I think that is our lonely tree over there, but it doesn't actually look that lonely. There's quite a few trees around it. Yeah, I don't know what they're talking about. Since we have to come off somewhere here to get to it, maybe it's, ah, I think the road's here. Oh, okay. Oh, look, there's a couple of people here. Yeah. Hola, buenas. Well, I guess we'll just find our spot then, shall we? These guys are here. Yeah, let's park just here. Hola, buenas. Oh, that's a bit deep down there. That bike lent over a lot. Luckily we've got our Givi extra wide sand plate. It's just about saves us from into the sand. Good evening, guys. We made it. Happy and alive. Happy and alive with a bit of a headache and feeling a little bit worse for wear. But we made it to this beautiful camping spot. Have a look at this. But we'll be tent and desert. Just endless desert. And the sun is setting behind the trees on this side. It's pretty windy, but the trees are giving us some shelter. There's quite a few little cluster of trees and bushes. And so you've got to try and position yourself in the right place so that you don't get all of the wind. Hope for the best. Hope for the best. And we have a big decision to make tonight as well, because there are basically two ways to get to Bolivia from here. The first is called Salar Olagüe Pass, and that is to the north, but it's on an unpaved road and we really don't know the condition of this road. But it is more direct to head to where we're trying to head to. The other way to get there is crossing over Pasoyama over to Argentina and then crossing from Argentina up to Bolivia. It is a longer way, but the entire way is paved. So people have told us very, very, very lovely things about this pass. It's one of the highest passes of the Andes, and they say that the north of Argentina is absolutely spectacular as well, so there's amazing draws to both. And we really don't know what to do at the moment, so we're going to have to have dinner and have a think about it. So that's it from us today. At the end we did 166 miles, and we hope you enjoyed the video. If so, please give us a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, share the video with your friends and family, comment below. 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