oct 06 travels
 Sintra, Portugal, for a conference on surveys |
 day trip to Moorish castle overlooking Sintra |
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 view of Sintra from mountain, and to the Atlantic |
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 also to Cabo da Roca, westernmost point in Europe |
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 some pictures of the Sintra palace |
 the Swan room |
 gardens |
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 chapel with Moorish designs |
 magpie room |
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 the tall chimneys of the kitchen |
 the chimneys seen here |
 dinner at another Sintra palace |
 more gardens |
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 then off to Chile, La Silla |
 crossing Andes |
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 staying in the ESO guesthouse |
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 then to La Silla |
 lots of small unused telescopes |
 Swedish radio telescope |
 Las Campanas (Magellan telescopes) in distance |
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 here to use NTT |
 the optical camera/spectrograph |
 the mirror |
 actuators |
 infrared camera |
 opened up to cool down before sunset |
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 the foxes show up at 3pm to play |
 movie |
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 La Silla dining room |
 observatory food not bad |
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 cafeteria courtyard |
 giant yucca (?) plants |
 hostel in La Serena |
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 off to the Atacama desert, movie |
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 San Pedro de Atacama |
 El Tatio geysers, at 14,000 feet |
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 thermal baths |
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 vizcacha, rabbit relative |
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 spiky plant -- in spanish, "mother-in-law's chair", cohin de la suegra (?) |
 vicunas |
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 llamas |
 flamingos |
 Valle de la Luna |
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 sliding down sand dunes |
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 sand surfing |
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 national park |
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 salt leached out of rocks |
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 like a lion? |
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 that's not snow |
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 sorry, that's not me. Just thought it was a neat photo |
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 more San Pedro |
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 collectivo taxi |
 finally, Chuquicamata copper mine |
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 Calama ode to copper |
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