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San Pedro de Atacama Slideshow
Travel Blogs from San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Getting Used to Clean Air
This is a top pick! ... herds, some tagged with colorful yarns, woven into their fur, to brand them as someone's property. Our guide, interestingly enough, was a San Pedro native and indigenous. Well-spoken in Spanish, I was on a tour of gringos, and he insisted on speaking ...
The Driest Desert In The World
This is a top pick! ... somewhat. We filled in some forms, got more passport stamps and officially crossed the border into Chile. Despite its dusty facade, San Pedro De Atacama was warm and welcoming. We breezed through check in at Hostal Sonchek and immediately ...
floating on salt...
This is a top pick! ... , NY. There's this initiative to tap the power of the geysers...gather up a bit of geothermal for San Pedro...makes sense to me. But there's conflict between tourism people and energy activists/energy developers.....the most ...
Altiplano and The Valley of the Moon (San Pedro 2)
This is a top pick! ... most interesting part of the caves was the entrance, a tiny canyon of soft sedimentary rock. Approximately six months earlier, heavy rains hit San Pedro, dumping the equivalent of a high-year's total rainfall (just an inch and a half) in a day. In such a ...
Warm in Chile
This is a top pick! ... desert on earth'...Seems every single desert I go to has this distinction but....yeah, it is dry and hot here in San Pedro de Atacama. The most shocking thing is we definitely are not in Kansas...Bolivia, anymore. First obvious thing....the ...
Fun in the desert
This is a top pick! San Pedro is a small town in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. At 3500m it is apparently the highest/driest combination place in the world. I don't know about that but I wouldn’t be at all surprised. Makes you wonder why anyone ...
Chile and a slight change of plans!
This is a top pick! ... two days of well needed chilling out in Chile ...well it was well needed as me and zo were boh ilol out of both ends...Nice! San Pedro De Atacama is a very nice chilled out town.... i liked it a lot, i found it to be the sort of place you could get ...
Friday in San Pedro
This is a top pick! ... 7/7/2006 With Monday, and my flight back to Santiago, still three days away, I began to take notice of how much money I'd spent in San Pedro-on tours, on hotels, on food-and how much I still expected to spend (on gifts). Luckily, most of my friends had ...
The Gringo trail.
This is a top pick! ... in some countries and areas, it's more like an eight lane freeway from here and heading north towards Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. San Pedro de Atacama is pretty expensive, as it more or less caters only for tourists, located as it is among some awesome ...
"Adventures in Sand boarding," with Emilio
This is a top pick! ... in a hired car on Saturday at 9:45, 15 minutes late. He sat in the passenger seat, and his driver, a chubby, jovial San Pedro Indian handed me a book on the region's history, printed and compiled by CODELCO, Chile's national copper company, while Emilio ...
In the Atacama Desert
This is a top pick! ... (about GBP45.00) each. You'll have to read the next entry to see how we get on! The town of San Pedro de Atacama, despite having lots of tourists is still very beautiful and peaceful. The central Plaza de Armas is surrounded by crumbling whitewashed ...
A quick whizz through Chile
This is a top pick! ... the right clothes. And so 25 hours after getting on a bus in Santiago, I arrived this morning in the northern village of San Pedro de Atacama, a little weary and with knees that are no longer speaking to me. San Pedro must be what Las Vegas was like ...
Driving, Hiking, and Climbing in the Desert-PART I
This is a top pick! ... we were still in the same country. The plane landed in Calama, which is about 90 minutes from where I was staying in San Pedro de Atacama. The drive there was stunning. It was my first taste of how varied the desert landscape can be, not just ...
Bolivian Salt Flats and the Chilean border
This is a top pick! Bolivian Salt Flats and the Chilean ...
My Bolivia
This is a top pick! Iīve been struggling with what to write about "My Bolivia"... To me, it was more a place to have a laugh than anything else... What strikes me the most is probably the great amount of nothingness... but beautiful nothingness... No-one does ...
Weird Landscapes, Part 2 - Chile in 48 Hours
This is a top pick! ... asphalt-paved road with paved shoulders, guardrails and even lines! We were in awe. After about an hour we rolled into San Pedro de Atacama, a cute little town in the middle of a desert. We went through Chilean immigration and customs (much more thorough ...
The Atacama Desert
This is a top pick! ... the journey. They even give you meals and show movies. It was great!! Better than a plane, and much cheaper too. San Pedro De Atacama is a little village quite literally in the middle of nowhere. Its in the Atacama desert, the driest place on the ...
A day in San Pedro and the amazing luna landscape
This is a top pick! ... so after we had sent another parcel home and looked at the handicraft market, etc we then booked an afternoon trip to the Valle de la Luna (valley of the moon). Booking this trip was almost an afterthought but am really glad we did. We left at about ...
El Tatio Geysers, San Pedro de Atacama
This is a top pick! ... will be back to work at my old hospital. Got up very early this morning to join a tour to the El Tatio Geysers, about 70 km from San Pedro. We reached El tatio before sunrise, as they are at their best between 6aqm and 7am. It was a chilly -12 degrees C, ...
sandboarding....not....
This is a top pick! ... ....the driest desert in the world according to Lonely Planet....and I believe it. We move inland on an overnight bus to San Pedro de Atacama. They only drive this stretch at night I think because it is SO hot during the day...and at night it ...
We missed the family Yuletide!
This is a top pick! Dean: Every year at the start of December my family (on my mother's side) meet up for our family yuletide celebrations. As the family is now so big and spread out all over the UK, it's a good way for us all to get together and ...
To the driest desert in the world!
This is a top pick! ... we are really looking forward to visiting. And so with that in mind, we hopped on the bus and headed back into Chile. The bus to San Pedro took about 10 hours and the scenery was stunning.....as was the altitude! Within a couple of hours the road winds ...
High and dry
This is a top pick! ... , thankfully, I didn't miss this time), I arrived in the fairly unexciting town of Calama, and spent a night there before coming to San Pedro de Atacama on Wednesday. As there wasn't much to do in Calama, I ended up going to the cinema, which was such a ...
Salta to San Pedro de Atacama
This is a top pick! The trip was spectacular, but I got acute altitude sickness at the border between Argentina and Chile and required supplemental oxygen. Most of the photos dont do the scenery justice as they were taken from the ...
Driving, Hiking, and Climbing in the Desert-PART 2
This is a top pick! ... to talk about, including my side trip to the Green and White Lagoons in Bolivia and my slightly less fearless night walk to the town of San Pedro the following evening. I am heading to my next top secret destination. Hereīs an easy hint: Evita ...
Playing the trumpets all night!
This is a top pick! ... I'll be sat on my butt for 23.5 hours. Ten minutes later, the girls arrive, all happy and smiling. While leaving San Pedro de Atacama, Jenny mentioned that Lance Armstrong had visited and compared it to the surface of the moon. How would Lance know ...
Ghost Trains, Flamingos & Salt Flats
This is a top pick! ... similar to the Bolivian ones. I just had to have a taste and guess what.....it tasted of salt. Before we got to San Pedro de Atacama, we stopped off at the 'Natural Reserve Los Flamencos' in the 'Laguna Chaxa' sector. This was created to protect the ...
Sand boarding in San Pedro de Atacama
This is a top pick! So, after arriving in San Pedro de Atacama (SPDA), Tom and I were both sick... Iīm not going to go into details, but we didnīt eat for a whole day and were feeling a bit sorry for ourselves... Flippin chicken on that flippin salt flats tour!! ...