Crossing the Andes mountains on a Volkswagen aircooled Beetle - From Brazil to Chile

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At the end of 2018, I went from South Brazil to San Pedro de Atacama, Chile with my VW Beetle. Passing through the Argentina highlands, better known as Puna. One of the most impressive places I have ever seen. An immensity of desert, volcanoes and salt flats passed through my window, as did llamas and alpacas. The altitude, the rarefied air, the wind, the thermal amplitude and sandstorms were just some of the factors that I had to learn to deal with. In addition to the problems faced with the car that became deficient due to not having enough air pressure to work normally, there was still wind, making the car practically stop at times, having to drive in first gear even in flat tarmac roads. The only way out was to be patient. When at almost four thousand meters above sea level, the fuel pump was no longer able to do its job due to the thin air. In an immensity of a desert, there are no stores neither mechanics to solve such problems, I had to improvise. I used a fuel gallon on the roof of the car as a tank, so I was able to leave Argentina, enter Chile, and return to Argentina again until I arrived "in the lowlands" again. I crossed two borders, passed through police and military controls with a gas tank over the car and a hose with a filter hanging over the rear window, and here I am to share this story!