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Antofagasta Slideshow
Top Hotels in Antofagasta
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Radisson Antofagasta
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Hotel Antofagasta
14 reviews -
Holiday Inn Express Antogagasta Antofagasta
28 reviews
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Diego De Almagro Costanera Antofagasta
4 reviews
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Enjoy Hotels Antofagasta
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Hotel San Marcos Antofagasta
2 reviews
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Hotel Costa Marfil Antofagasta
2 reviews
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Ancla Inn Antofagasta
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Hotel Diego De Almagro Antofa Antofagasta
3 reviews
Antofagasta
Travel Blogs from Antofagasta, Chile
Cemetery, Desert & Big Hands
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Give Lynn Wholemeal. Give Des white refined.
This is a top pick! ... . The Service Station across the road was spotless, so we had breakfast there. (If I were on the Municipal Council of Antofagasta, I would implement a daily litter collection, supply of litter bins every 20 meters, staff to assist with clean up, and a dog ...
Crossing into Chilean, desertlands.....
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
The beautiful Atacama Desert
This is a top pick! ... , Des and I shopped at the local Hipermart and prepared a beautiful meal for the four of us in the apartment kitchen. Antofagasta – Chile We were just a little too late to see the Dakar race come through the Antofagasta area, but we did see some of ...
Highway to Arica (turn left just before Hell)
... en cours de restauration, l'autre qui offre peut-être encore un service. Cette dernière est la compagnie Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia; ma prochaine étape doit donc être Antofagasta. Un petit voyage de 12 heures de nuit en classe ...
Christmas with the Galleguillos'
... dad got 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 ...
Pachamama - Part 1of 3
... or a bit 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 ...
Through the Atacama Desert
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What doesnt kill me makes me stronger
Razmisljala sam da mi naslov ovog entrya bude "ziva i zdrava u antofagasti" ili "progovorila sam DOSLOVCE preko noci"... ali mislim da cu pod ovim naslovom imati par nastavaka. Evo me, nakon Vine, grada kokaina, Santiaga, grada kurvi, u Antofagasti, ...
Hippie a la plage
... je 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 ...
Antofagasta
... 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. ...
Back in Antofagasta
Back in AF after the epic desert trip, got to decide where to go next... hmmmm. Might try Bolivia ...
Desert
... 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
... of 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 ...
Antofagasta, una ciudad que vive en el pasado
Aqui estan nuestras fotos de Antofagasta, en nuestro ultimo viaje en Chile. He aqui, una de las ciudades mas interesantes de Chile, por sus grandes montanas y acantilados. Esta ciudad, esta ubicada en una accidentada geografia en la cordillera de la ...
Day 51 - Pozo Almonte to Antofagasta, Chile
... 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.
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 ...
Antofagasta
On 2 May we made the 4 hour journey from San Pedro de Atacama to Antofagasta (on the coast). Our guide book describes Antofagasta as "smelling of nicotine, brine and sweat" but we ignored that and went anyway, for two reasons. First, it broke up an ...
big city and big telescopes around Antofagasta
Antofagasta is the second biggest city in Chile and we spend some time lost in the one-way-streets, trying to buy some things for our travels to the remote altiplano - like antifreeze for diesel in order not to get stuck after a cold night on 5000m ...
The Hand in the Desert
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!
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 ...
Northern Chile: testing my Spanish ability
... actually offer assistance or maybe even a lift :) A long shot, and of course this didn't work out. Antofagasta, remember, is a working town... nobody has time for such frivolities, and in truth this didn´t even happen to me ...
Antofagasta
... and way of life. I am unsure if the lack of other backpackers is due to being out of season, whether others travels bypass Antofagasta or simple for the fact that I have chosen to opt for the bare basic accommodation. Sights I have seen today that you ...
Shit Hole.......
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 ...
The "Mano del Desierto"
... 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 ...
Salar de Atacama - Xmas Day
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 ...