In 2010, Gu Yue decided to "complete the world's longest overland crossing by various means" with his friends, traveling from Alaska in the far north of North America to Ushuaia, the southernmost city in Argentina in South America — a total of 33,000 kilometers.
After finishing the first leg of the journey in North America, in August 2011, Gu Yue and his friend Dai Wei_chen?ji you?rao gao xu fei xiang xu bian?dao?de mu qian?shan lu? de mi lan?, she hui? mei zhou ri jie dai you ke. Gu Yue mei neng zai Paranal tian wen tai guo ye, er shi zai lu bian de sha mo li zha ying. Ye li de yue liang hen liang, tian kong de xing xing dou bei zhao mei le.
There is the Paranal Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
An observatory in the desert
With one of the most advanced telescopes in the world
In Chile’s Atacama Desert, there is a set of the most advanced telescopes in the world — the Paranal Observatory run by the European Southern Observatory. It is also the driest place on Earth, where there is no water source for hundreds of miles across the desert, no plants or animals, and basically no rainfall, making it the best location for astronomical observation. Here there is a 360-degree morning photo of the Paranal Observatory, put together by photographer H.H. Heyer using 37 images with a 30-minute exposure. The Milky Way stretches across the entire sky, the moon rises anytime from the horizon, and the four 8.2-meter-diameter telescopes have just finished a night’s work. However, this site is currently not open to tourists, though it is said to welcome visitors every Sunday in the future. Gu Yue didn’t get to spend the night at the Paranal Observatory, but instead camped out in the desert by the roadside. The moon was so bright at night that it drowned out all the stars in the sky.