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Calama, Chuquicamata, Santiago
Jul 10, 2006
(11 photos)
"Sunday, July 09, 2006 Sunday meant relaxing and waiting around for the bus to Calama in the evening. I wandered the town, looking at Lapis Lazuli and kept balking at the prices. By ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
arichardson
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Chilling in Calama!!!
Aug 6, 2005
(1 photo)
"Up early to try and get to Arica, we jumped on a bus to Calama which we were hoping had more connections! It was not to be...we had abit of a bad hour in that we got dropped quite ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
dawn_smedley
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Crossing the Andes
Jun 29, 2005
(21 photos)
"Well we made it across the Andes in the middle of winter and survived - but only just . . . We left Salta and cycled north through the sub-tropical forests to Jujuy and a bit beyon ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
patagonia2peru
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San Pedro de Atacama
Feb 26, 2008
(4 photos)
"De Antofagasta, me llevó un colectivo (como un bus pero es un coche) hacia la salida de la ciudad. De ahí no tardó mucho para que una camioneta con un ingeniero eléctrico me lleve ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
lelaulau

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Stuck in Calama
Feb 15, 2008
"I was so happy to be in Chile. The prospect of a room with other-than-cardboard walls and of a hot bath made me giddy with anticipation. The contrast between Bolivia and Chile coul ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
love1017

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Nuestra vida en San Pedro de Atacama
Aug 7, 2007
(8 photos)
" Llevamos un mes y una semana en San Pedro. Hemos hechos muchos amigos, la mayoría chilenos. Trabajamos 6 días a la semana en un restaurante y tal vez por eso, el tiempo se pasa v ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
borjul

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Calama
Jan 12, 2008
(13 photos)
"Endlich! Nach diesmal 38 Stunden Reise bin ich von Cusco kommend in der Wûstenstadt Calama angekommen. Auf der Rueckreise bezahlte ich unwesentlich mehr und bin dafuer sehr ruhig g ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
floriparan

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Back to civilization...
Dec 28, 2007
(1 photo)
"So, we were glad to be back into civilization and actually see pavement! We caught a bus from the Salt flats to the Chilean immigration. It felt like we were getting dropped off in ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
laytonandjana

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(itching) go to Calama for calamine...
Jan 12, 2006
"You want history? You got it, baby! Amazing history stuff... In Calama, I stayed at a hostel that was a former home of the famous Eduardo Abaroa. I knew that I saw something so his ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
darfrazier

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San Pedro de Atacama rocks!!!
Apr 20, 2008
(140 photos)
".....so after 12 hours in semi cama (reclining seat - not quite the luxury we had been used to in premium class) we arrived at Calama where we negotiated a rather dodgy cab to take ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
parkerich

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Flugziel heute: Calama im Norden Chiles
Oct 21, 2006
"Samstag, 5:00 Uhr. Die Strassen von Rio koennen auch mal leer sein! Ratz fatz ist das Taxi am Flughafen. Der Flug findet tatsaechlich statt. In der Schlange nur wenige Leute. Aber ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
patresen

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Mining towns are rough...
Mar 25, 2006
(1 photo)
"Excited to reach San Pedro de Atacama...we drive all night through this desert. It is a leg of the journey that features hundreds of kilometers of vast straightaway and a sky as bi ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
delfuegoproject

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about turn, bus life part 3
Jan 5, 2007
"Got to Calama and found the next bus to Salta in Argentina is leaving in 4 days time. It appears we didn´t factor in that january is Chile and Argentina´s summer hol ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
coopertrooper

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stuck in Calama
Feb 16, 2006
"Getting out of San Pedro turned out to be much more of a problem than we thought it was going to be. We booked a first class bus to La Serena (7hrs north of Santiago, on the coast) ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
countryroads

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Calama
Mar 11, 2008
(1 photo)
"Well...we made it through another long trip. This will probably be the last "long distance" bus ride that we take which is good news. The bad news is that from now until USA, the d ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
veromarcos

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Digging to China: a Huge Pit in the Ground
Nov 11, 2005
(5 photos)
"We will make this entry mercifully short, as the only ones who should have to endure 22 bus rides should be us. We left Arequipa intending to cross the Peruvian-Chilean border and ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
stevecori

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Paiva Camalassa Calamassa :=)
Apr 13, 2005
"Taas ollaan jossakin ihmeen paikassa ja yritetaan kuluttaa paivaa nettikahvilassa. Calama sijaitsee aika lailla keskella ei mitaan. Ymparissa on jonkinlaista autiomaata ja sitten o ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
olesja

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Un oasis en Marte
May 30, 2008
(15 photos)
"De nuevo en Chile, en pleno desierto de Atacama, en San Pedro. Parece que no hay forma de escapar del frío... Y de nuevo los precios chilenos, que parecen escandalosos después de h ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
patoysandrix

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"Probably the Driest Place in the World!"
Apr 6, 2005
(1 photo)
"Choosing to break a long journey again as I headed south through Chile, I went to Calama in the heart of the Atacama Desert. I only just managed to get there with my sanity intact, ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
thewer

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Calama - Atacama Desert
Sep 7, 2006
(43 photos)
"Thursday September 7th Calama, also known as the middle of nowhere. We landed, after skirting the Andes for most of the flight, on a runway in the middle of a desolate landscape. T ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
teamjc

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Off to Bolivia - or so we thought!!!!
Sep 19, 2007
"Hi guys, not gonna say too much but will explain the log title.. We were meant to catch a train from Calama in chile to Uyuni in Bolivia.... When we arrived everything was sh ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
sneekybeeky

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Its Calama, not Kalama
Jun 22, 2005
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"I wasn't going to write anything about Calama but I had some more Chilean moments that I thought warranted comment. Calama is a fairly large place (100,000 or so) that exists solel ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
doovy

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San Pedro de Atacama via Calama
Jul 3, 2008
"3rd - 6th July 2008 After a long bus ride by day this time, we arrived at Calama 7.30pm and decided to get a bus straight to San Pedro de Atacama as there was one in the next ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
pbush68

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Calama Transit - NO TEXT
Mar 30, 2007
"A town that is just like Mackay Queelnsland - wealthly mining town with too much money and too many blokes in overpriced hotels! ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
chadandmizzie

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Puscava Atacama
Apr 17, 2006
(1 photo)
"18.4. Calama, oaza v puscavi, kjer dezuje trikrat na leto, je mesto kakih 150.000 rudarskih dus. Center mesta z mnogimi kafici in gneco v coni za pesce spominja na kaksno hrvasko m ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
tjasa

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Volviendo a la civilizacion!
Aug 4, 2007
"Despues de pasar una noche inolvidable y un frio impresionante en el pueblo de San Pedro de Atacama ya hemos vuelto a tomar al ruta (abandonando a los dos chicos con quie ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
murphy4

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de hink-stap-sprong-vloek
Feb 6, 2007
"vervolg.... dus hinkend de bus op naar calama om daar fotos te laten pakken, dan hinkend op zoek naar een taxi, hinkend het ziekenhuis binnen, hinkend een anderhalfuur aanschuiven ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
jefweyns

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Calama
Jul 26, 2007
(13 photos)
"Day 48 (July 26th): Our bus ride from Salta, Argentina to Calama, Chile took in some stunning landscape scenery. We drove from an altitute of 400m above sea level (Salta) to ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
skip-ange

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Calama and Chuquicamata
Mar 8, 2005
(3 photos)
"It wasn't my first time in Calama but it was going to be in Chuquicamata and the copper miners. I had to see them, influenced by the movie Motorcycle Diaries. And they were impress ..."
A travel blog entry from Calama by
duqueperin

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