San Pedro de Atacama Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

Not much to say about this little town, its full of tourists, expiencive and very hot. We had 35 degree and sun shine. Visit the Atacama dessert.
Had my first night in a hostel dorm and well it was a sleepless night, really hav to get used to it.

Hab leider nicht viel zu sagen zu dieser kleinen Stadt ist voll von Touristen und total ue...

Das Tal der Kakteen liegt nord-nordöstlich von San Pedro auf rund 2800m, in der Nähe der kleinen Ortschaft Guatin auf dem Weg zu den Banos de Puritama (Thermalquellen). Nach einem kurzen Abstieg über ein Gerollfeld erreichen wir eine sandige, dicht grün bewachsene Stelle an der, der kalte Bach und der warme Bach zusammenfliessen. Der warme Bach ...

Das Valle de la Muerte (Tal des Todes) wurde in alten Tagen Valle del Marte (Tal des Mars) genannt. Durch Ueberlieferungsfehler erhielt die Gegend den heutigen Namen.
Diese Exkursion und das im folgenden Eintrag beschriebene Cactus Valley dienen als Schritt für Schritt Akklimatisation an die extreme Trockenheit der Wüste, die Sonneneinstrahl...

et voila, jai pris mon bus a 22h direction sanj pedro, apres, il faut bien lavouer, avoir craquer pour un sundae ds un des rares mc do damerique latine (et tant mieux). jai aussi manger du super poisson ac aucune aretes (de la reineta)
jembarque, et je dois dire que le voyage passe plutot biem, a part que ds la nuit (4h du matin), on ns revei...

We were really priviledged, in fact honoured is a more accurate description, to share our 23 hour bus marathon from Santiago to San Pedro with the gold and bronze medalists as well as the founder of the annual Chilean Snoring Championships! Lucky us! You can imagine how excited we were - like kids on Christmas - that we didn't sleep a wink that ...

Hola again! I know its been ages and I owe you a lot, so here comes! Am presently in Chile, don´t ask me why as I have no idea how I ended up here. But! I haven´t regreted a moment yet. My course in Bariloche kept me quite busy, but I still found time to do a couple of excursions. I visited the old volcano´s caves which had indigenous paintings ...

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 gateway to many natural wonders and also the nearby Bolivia. The town itself is on the verve of b...

Wow, this hostel is a great improvement. The woman running the place is continually scurrying around, working. Pity we don´t understand much of what she´s saying but she is lovely. After a bit of a sleep in, we headed off for breakfast which again, was great. Who would have thought simple yoghurt and cornflakes would be so tasty. Olivia´s ham an...

We left Antafogasta early to get Baquedano where we visited a train cemetery, full of engines used to transport minerals and workers. Now that the nitrate mines have been abandoned these trains are no longer required but have not corroded due to the lack of humidity in the air. After having some fun climbing over the trains we sat down to a grea...

We arrived in San Pedro in the swealtering heat - yup we're in the desert now! Our hostel Suma Jallpa was pretty basic for the price we were paying ... and the woman running it! (Time for big rant) God she was lazy, didnt make you feel welcome at all, felt like we were doing HER a favour by stopping there, no breakfast whereas it was advertised,...