Antofagasta, Chile Travel Blogs

Cemetery, Desert & Big Hands
Feb 17, 2009 (30 photos)

... our room. For this reason, I went down to the local pizza restaurant and grabbed a couple of take-aways. Got back to the hotel and vegged in front of the TV! Apparently, Antofagasta is not very safe at night, so it was best to have a night in I suppose.

Crossing into Chilean, desertlands.....
Jun 6, 2005 (18 photos)

... forward border crossing of them all over into Chile!!! well deserved after our last border adventure, methinks. First impressions of "Chile"? It`s very flat and desertlike indeed. The road from the border to "Arica" (first point to catch a ...

Christmas with the Galleguillos'
Dec 25, 2008 (8 photos)

... dressed up as Santa to deliver gifts) and eating lots lol. Visited Pedro's aunt in Mejillones, a small village just outside of Antofagasta with the nearby Punta de Angamos, the site of a naval battle during the war of the Pacific. There is also loads to ...

Pachamama - Part 1of 3
Oct 27, 2008 (8 photos)

... like "Duel", the old Spielberg movie where that guy gets chased around these desert roads in his car by a massive truck. In Chile though, people tend to overtake you rather than force you to drive off a cliff. It's all very civilised. It also reminded ...

Through the Atacama Desert
Apr 29, 2011 (1 photos)

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Pachamama bus - Atacama desert route - day 4
Mar 25, 2008 (12 photos)

We spent the day driving through the driest part of the Atacama desert towards Antafogasta. In this area of the desert rain has not been detected for over 50 years! We stopped at a small dusty diner in the middle of no where for a lunch of chicken and ...

Hippie a la plage
Feb 23, 2008 (3 photos)

... commence a chercher une autre voiture. Quand 5 minutes plus tard, le prof de bio me dit " tu peux venir avec nous jusqu'a Antofagasta si tu veux" !! Nous traversons donc le desert le plus aride du monde ensemble ! On parle un peu sans plus et on ecoute les ...

Antofagasta
Jul 5, 2008

... might have deserved a second chance but it wasn´t going to get one from us. Within minutes we had found ourselves a bus to Antofagasta but as we were ushered to the platform and our bags bundled onboard with no ticket, we started to have a bad feeling. I ...

Back in Antofagasta
Jan 1, 2009

Back in AF after the epic desert trip, got to decide where to go next... hmmmm. Might try Bolivia :)

Desert
May 31, 2008

... sun rises. We see a really strange rock formation in the shape of a hand which is really cool abnd then eventually arrive in Antofagasta where we catch another bus which takes us out of town to a hostel which is pretty much in the middle of knowhere. ...

Avoiding Northern Bolivia
Dec 21, 2005 (9 photos)

... rotting straw beneath your feet. Due to the political problems in Bolivia we headed down to southern Peru and then into Northern Chile to a place called San Pedro de Atticama. There´s not much to say about it except that it was extremely poor and there ...

Antofagasta, una ciudad que vive en el pasado
Jun 4, 2004 (34 photos)

... que mostrar y puedes disfrutar de la hermosa arquitectura rodeada por las montanas. Here are our photos of Antofagasta, from our last journey in Chile. This is one of the most interesting cities in Chile, due to its dramatic mountains and cliffs. ...

Second Biggest City in Chile
Jan 28, 2008 (9 photos)

 

The Atacama
Apr 10, 2007

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Day 51 - Pozo Almonte to Antofagasta, Chile
Nov 15, 2007 (5 photos)

... recorded.  We also crossed the Tropic of Capricorn today.  We'll see what that brings us.  Arrived at Antofagasta around 3pm, got a nice room in the centre of town surrounded by a neat shopping market. We went strolling around for ...

Out of the tropics.
Aug 14, 2008 (2 photos)

Time to make some progress South I thought, so after having a gander at the geisers I pressed on towards Antofagasta on an awesome dirt road over the Andes where I was 4000m+ for quite some time, it gets cold up there. Got to Antofagasta, back by the ...

Upon Sea
Sep 28, 2008 (12 photos)

... climes of a coastal town. When I was in Iquique at the party at the Air force Base I met, Ximena who lives in Antofagasta which is on my route south so I accepted her invitation to visit here too. What strikes me most about being in Chile is ...

Hand in Desert and Pan De Azucar
Jul 12, 2007

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Salar de Atacama - Xmas Day
Dec 25, 2007 (21 photos)

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 ...

The Hand in the Desert
Dec 6, 2006

We drove all day to get near to the coast.  We travelled into port town of Antofagasta the and thankfully drove out again.  The area is know for it copper mines and supplies much of the worlds copper.  We then travelled to the Hand in the ...

Back in the dessert!
May 31, 2008

We finally arrived in the metropolis that is Antofagasta and following the instructions of the leaflet of the place we were going to stay we made our way to the appropriate bust stop and got on number 103.....we were mildly suprised as we got further and ...

Antofagasta
Oct 24, 2006 (2 photos)

... also been welcomed to Chile with a smile and firm handshake for a gentleman whilst walking by the sea front. I have located Antofagasta´s old railway station which houses an old English telephone box! To the east of the town their are houses situated on ...

Shit Hole.......
Aug 18, 2009

Shit Hole.. Stayed for 2 nights in a hotel for the first time in 3 months and it was worse than half the hostels we had stayed in. Only good thing about it was Shooooppppp Dog Restaurant.

The "Mano del Desierto"
May 15, 2007 (14 photos)

... we were there.  However, this didn't stop us taking loads of photos as good tourists do! It was then onwards to Antofagasta, which is Chile's fifth largest city and the main urban area in the desert.  It is also one of Chile's main ports and ...

Antofagasta
Feb 20, 2008 (6 photos)

We just stayed one night in Antofagasta which is more than most travellers do. There is a pedestrian street with shops and so on but nothing gorgeous for tourists to stick around.

From San Pedro to Caldera (Atacama Desert)
Feb 6, 2008 (15 photos)

... . (roughly 500km long) Well it was a bit disapointing to drive it. Its not like the sahara. From san pedro to antofagasta and south, its pretty much gray dust.  Pretty boring. towards the south, about 100km north of caldera it gets sandy and ...

Aunty Frank? are you there?
May 12, 2008

Another mini Panama city, skip.

Antofagasta
Jan 14, 2008

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Anti Antofagasta
Nov 16, 2007

Antofagasta The only reason we came here was to fly to Patagonia from here. When we arrived we were impressed with how westernised the place is but we were soon to be shocked. They have no bus structure, you are meant to guess what bus to ...

Antofogasta
Apr 25, 2009 (8 photos)

... nothing til the mining town of Calama which supports one of the world´s biggest open mines and the source of much of Chile´s wealth, Chuquicamata. We reached Antofogasta, which didn´t look too big and concrete jungly at all but was definitely a port, ...