Astro tour - watching the sky and its hidden treasures
It's 8:30pm, the sun has set a while ago but it is still 'blue hour'. Ivan from Amatista Travelspicks me up and brings me for the astro-tour on his family property in Diaguitas where they have set up with his wife a beautiful secluded star-gazing platform, away from the village lights. Two other visitors arrive and we have an almost private tour the 3 of us on this Sunday night. Ivan is passionate about astronomy. He started out giving us an introduction about the characteristics of this place in the valley where the conditions are among the best in the world to observe the sky. And also the question: how has astronomy served mankind and still does? A deep question and long interactive answer. All this while we were sipping our drinks (I had a fresh juice of nispero that grows on their property and the 2 other guests had a famous local pisco sour made with lemons from their orchard).We then got to the telescope and Ivan pointed it at different 'celestial objects'...