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Copiapoathon 2001

11 May: S008

Elqui Valley - Vicuña

Market and Cactus retail nursery

Some parts of our trips are planned, some, such as this stop, just happen. We pulled into Vicuña to top up our stock of bananas and found fruits of Eulychnia acida offered for sale in a stand opposite a modest cactus & succulent plant nursery!

Fruits of Eulychnia acida between bruised pears and battered bananas  

Perhaps not worthy of a coach party visit, but certainly a very interesting ad-hoc stop.

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