Uyuni to San Pedro

Uyuni is a grey, climatically challenged town a long way from the nearest civilised place in southern Bolivia, where we really didn´t fit in (the average number of alpaca wool garments per traveler is at least 3, we averaged nil).
Q: So why were we there?
A: To get to San Pedro de Atacama in Chile.

To get to St Pedro you have spend three days crammed in a jeep with strangers (an argumentative Dutch girl in our case, but the two young Danish guys were cool and the Spanish woman was pleasant enough), bouncing along rough tracks, staying in freezing cold brick huts with banging headaches from the high-altitude and enduring food classed as average at best.  And that is after the formidable challenge of choosing your tour operator from the plethora of choices, decipher truth from sham etc etc.
Q:  So why did we want to do that?
A:  Well, let us show you...