San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Travel Blogs

San Pedro to Uyuni Jeep Tour
Aug 2, 2009 (23 photos)

We were collected at 8am from our hostel in San Pedro and taken in a minibus to the border crossing. There were two other people on our tour - Angela (from Columbia) and Felipe (from Brazil) and fortunately they both spoke fluent English. At the Bolivian ...

nooo po
Apr 11, 2007

... our hands and feet! we did get to swim in a thermal pool though which warmed us up a little. on the way back to san pedro we stopped occasionally at good 'photo oppurtunities' - i got really in to it and was acting like a right tourist. miss harriet would ...

Valle De La Luna, El Tatio and Salt Lakes
Apr 8, 2000

From Arica we took an overnight bus (I was becoming quite an expert at sleeping on buses) to San Pedro De Atacama. San Pedro was a oasis town slap bang in the middle of the Atacama desert. A small town with a mainly indigenous population, it was the ...

The Driest Place on Earth
Mar 24, 2007 (11 photos)

... odd being in the middle of an incredibly lush fruit orchard in the middle of the desert! Anyway, back to the desert - San Pedro is pretty much a tourist town catering for the streams of travellers coming in from all over the place. Ever morning and ...

San Pedro de Atacama
Nov 8, 2006

Hi there! In the desert for a week or do to warm up a bit. More later.

The Atacama desert
Mar 27, 2006 (15 photos)

... Kate and myself braved the cold again to go up into altitude again..for the last time in South America, to San Pedro....This place is apparently the driest place on earth......nothing but sand....Very beautiful...but very expensive....Almost like England! ...

so i saw the desert...
Aug 13, 2006 (5 photos)

so i heard that san pedro de atacama was a backpackers paradise from more than one source. it was the truth, for sure. small little desert villiage where you can eat sushi, ride horses to ruins, and pretty much anything you could want. rolled in after ...

Geysers El Tatio
Apr 1, 2009 (20 photos)

... . Abfahrt ist um 4 Uhr morgens. Ein Bus bringt die 15 koepfige Gruppe vom immerhin schon 2400 Meter hoch liegendem San Pedro de Atacama in einer 2 Stuendigen Fahrt ueber Geroellpisten durch die Wueste, zum Geysirfeld El Tatio an der Grenze zu Bolivien. ...

This is surreal
Jan 5, 2009

We have spent only one full day in San Pedro but it has been fantastic. We spent the day hiking around the outskirts of the village and the sights here are awesome. Firstly we walked out towards the volcano, right out to a mountain of sulphur which ...

24 hours in Chile
Dec 23, 2006

San Pedro de Atacama

27/06/05 - 01/07/05
Jun 27, 2005 (10 photos)

... that I had seen so far so it was a little strange to wake up in the middle of the driest desert on earth! San Pedro s a great little town - all the buildings are adobe and it has a very relaxed atmosphere. The only downsides are that it gets quite ...

I hate camping!!!
May 18, 2007 (9 photos)

... cook the food and we left them to do the shopping when we stopped in a supermarket for breakfast a couple of hours after leaving San Pedro. The rest of the day was pretty boring with us spending plenty of time in the minibus.  This is what the tour ...

Breaking down in the desert
Jan 1, 2009 (19 photos)

Decided it was time to visit the major reason for coming to this part of Chile, the tourist haven of San Pedro de Atacama. Driving through the desert is immense, it really is a huge area of nothing-ness. Crossed the Tropic of Capricorn (little more than a ...

San Pedro de Atacama
Aug 10, 2003

No rain

Fiesta de San Luca
Oct 18, 2008 (6 photos)

Took a morning bus to the village of Toconao where they were celebrating the festival of their patron saint - Lucas. The church was holding an outdoor sermon/mass type thing between the church building and the bell tower when we got there. It was ...

San Pedro De Atacama
Jul 20, 2006 (5 photos)

Desert and Dunes
Dec 15, 2007 (45 photos)

... another overnight bus... six hours from Iquique to Calama, a quick bus change and another one and a half hours from Calama to San Pedro de Atacama and I'm in one of the driest deserts on earth.  Why come here you ask... why not I say?  Exiting ...

Feb. 7, 2006 - San Pedro de Atamaco
Feb 7, 2006 (7 photos)

... people on the tour, including a couple from Montreal (Roger and Lynne). We first visited Laguna Chaxa in the Salar de Atacama, a huge salt lake and a familiar breeding site for Flamingos. The landscape of salt rocks is really quite distinctive, almost ...

San Pedro de Atacama
Jul 1, 2008 (3 photos)

17 Stunden Busfahrt und angekommen in der trockensten Wueste der Welt, der Atacama Wueste! Die Tage waren endlich mal richtig warm, dafuer die Naechte bitterkalt, so dass im Hostel die Wasserhaehne zugefroren sind. Wir nutzten die Sandduenen wir etwas ...

Pachamama bus - Atacama desert route - day 5
Mar 26, 2008 (52 photos)

... Reserve Los Flamencos, a reserve created to protect the pink Flamingos in the area. Finally arrived in San Pedro de Atacama a desert town in the north of Chile only 42km from the Bolivian border and 146km from the Argentinan border. The town is just a ...

San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Mar 4, 2009 (24 photos)

Hi all, Well, Atacama Desert is simply breathtaking: by far expecting everything we imagined, The landscape is fantastic, the temperature perfect and the hotel is amazing! Our excursions so far: biking our way to our swimming(or rather floating!) ...

The Atacama Desert
Oct 27, 2009

Hola, Well, our first impressions of Chile is really good. It is clean, safe and San Pedro is a great town and very bohemian. It is very touristy though because it is right in the Atacama desert so you can do lots of excursions out of the town. On our ...

Flamingos, Geysers and the Moon Valley
May 17, 2007 (65 photos)

... stunning views from the ruins as the buildings face towards a huge and deep valley. During the afternoon we headed towards San Pedro de Atacama, but stopped as the Natural Reserve Los Flamencos and watched some pink flamingos as the sun set.  ...

Geisers en de vallei van de maan
Mar 2, 2009

Waar de gringo-trail op veel plaatsen een klein paadje is die in San Pedro de Atacama zo ongeveer een 10 baans snelweg geworden komend van of richting de Salar de Uyuni. Daarnaast heeft San Pedro zelf ook nog heel wat natuurschoon in de aanbieding en ...

Atacama Desert Sights
Jan 26, 2008 (47 photos)

A couple of tours in the desert to see the "Valley of the Dead" and the "Valley of the Moon" nearby, as well as a brutal 4AM departure to see some steaming and bubbling geysers that are most active soon after sunrise.......way up high in the Andes at 4300 ...

San Pedro - oasis in the desert
Jun 28, 2007 (4 photos)

... any bowls!  Luckily we come prepared with our own containers so our newly bought brekkie cereal isn't going to waste! San Pedro de Atacama is a strange but great place.  It's bang in the middle of the desert which is it's attraction.  ...

San Pedro, dzien 3
Nov 8, 2008

  Dzisiejszy dzien nie nalezal do najciekawszych, nie mielismy juz zadnych planow.  Rano probowalismy wybrac pieniadze z bankomatu. Okazalo sie ze  sie  skonczyly, najgorsze ze nasze zasoby gotowki tez powoli sie ...

San Pedro de Atacama
Jul 5, 2008

Well, here I am in San Pedro!  It's a small village, really, based around one main street... The buildings are all single storey adobe, and the streets are unpaved - just dust!  There's something very 'frontier town' about it! The bus journey ...

The city with no dancing
Sep 25, 2008

Our first stop in Chile was San Pedro, a small town in the Atacama desert in Northern Chile. San Pedro was a really neat little town. Definitely very touristy with restaurants, cafe´s, hostels and tourist shops for souvenirs and things. But it had a lot of ...

From the Earth to the Moon
Nov 19, 2007 (6 photos)

... a fraudster! The drive saw us going passed the huge copper mine of Chuquicamata and upwards in altitude towards San Pedro de Atacama.  San Pedro is a town where the gringo trail is so well used it has practically been tarmacked - the ...