{"id":3899,"date":"2026-05-11T23:25:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:25:39","slug":"desert-of-stars-san-pedro-de-atacama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/video-journeys\/desert-of-stars-san-pedro-de-atacama\/","title":{"rendered":"San Pedro de Atacama \u2013 Desert of Stars &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>Dry winds, moonlit valleys, endless skies<\/em><\/h4>\n<iframe  id=\"_ytid_38855\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q09gUoYB30Y?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&controls=1&disablekb=0&color=red&cc_lang_pref=&rel=1&autohide=2&theme=dark&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Arriving in San Pedro de Atacama, one of the driest deserts on earth, we feel the stillness of the air and the laid\u2011back rhythm of a town filled with backpackers and dreamers. At night, the skies open wide \u2014 stars shining with a clarity found nowhere else. By day, we wander into the Valley of the Moon. Here stand <em>The Three Marys<\/em>, rock formations sculpted over millions of years by desert wind and salt erosion, also known as <em>The Watchers<\/em>. Granite, quartz, and clay shaped into figures that seem to guard the valley. The desert stretches beyond, vast and silent, a landscape of time and eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dry winds, moonlit valleys, endless skies Arriving in San Pedro de Atacama, one of the driest deserts on earth, we feel the stillness of the air and the laid\u2011back rhythm of a town filled with backpackers and dreamers. At night, the skies open wide \u2014 stars shining with a clarity found nowhere else. By day,&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[99,117],"class_list":["post-3899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-journeys","tag-atlantic-to-pacific","tag-video-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}