Salar de Atacama Antofagasta

A 10hr journey got us to San Pedro. On our way we'd gone past some pretty amazing scenery and had reached a height of 4900m at the Chilean border, San Pedro stands at 2000m but with all the change in altitude we felt the effects. Crag, Dom and I decided to drink almost our body weight in coca tea to try ward off any sickness!!

San Pedro de …

Bienvenido a San Pedro de Atacama!

San Pedro de Atacama ist eine Oase in der chilenischen Atacamawüste und gehört zur Región de Antofagasta. Der Ort liegt auf 2.443 m Höhe am nördlichen Rand des Salar de Atacama, einer grossen Salzablagerung in der Atacamawüste und ist ein beliebtes Ziel für Wüsten-Touristen aus aller Welt. Das Wasser für …

To celebrate this specal Xmas day we visited the thing closest to snow around here...a salt lake, and instead of raindeer we saw flamingos and lizards! We also visted Toconao, an incredible town with 550 inhabitants (in 2002), no priest, but its own ...

... Antofagasta…..but first we had some things to see around San Pedro. We decided that time only allowed us to see the Salar de Atacama (salt flats) and Valle de La Luna before we needed to head for the copper mine. We did some quick maintenance on ...