Hostal Sumaj Jallpa San Pedro de Atacama

... laser shows on the cliff faces and glow sticks. There was terrible techno music and terrible drunken westerners.
As my memory serves I danced around a bon fire, helped a girl from getting raped and then lost everyone and caught a van back to town. As I stepped out of the van I heard someone yelling at me in Spanish. I was a little afraid as it was dark and we'd been warned about muggings.
I hurried home as the Spanish voice drew closer.
I made it back to the hostel in a funny ...

... 1500; ריקוד 97; בטן (שהזכי
512; מאוד את 60 לרגבי 01;, רק שהזקנ 97;ם לא רקדו עם הבחור 93;ת...) למופע הגענו במק ...

San Pedro de Atacama - http://www.sanpedroatacama.com/ingles/h ome.htm It rained here a record 6 times last year, on 2 of those occasions it REALLY rained and the residents of San Pedro were dancing in the street !!! Welcome to the Atacam dessert, the driest place on earth..

I rose in my Santiago pad at 2am for my 5-15 flight. ( I couldnt sleep) - 2 hours later after A fabulous sunrise over the Andes on the way, I was at the local airport.. Calama. coming in over the barren ...

... We went to Laguna cejas and ojos del salar, which was by far the best part of the trip. We floated effortlessly in the salt laguna (three times the amount of salt in the ocean) and then ran and jumped off the edge of the ojos del salar to rinse the salt off since the ojos are fresh water. Finally we finished the day off at an INCREDIBLE salt flat (surreal salt formations, inch-deep water across the hold mile-long lake which produces the sensation that ...

... auf rund 3300m treffen wir auf die Ortschaft Socaire. Der Ort verfuegt ueber eine eigene Grundschule. Fuer die weitere Ausbildung muessen die Kinder in San Pedro zur Schule.













Ab dem Ortsende fahren wir auf holpriger Naturstrasse immer hoeher, bis wir auf fast 4000m zu den beiden Lagunen Miscanti und ...

... struck up a conversation with the two men who live outside of the hostel in tents, they are both from Santiago and are only here to make money. One is a chef, the other is one of the guys who is supposed to get you into the restaurant, they called him a "hunter" meaning someone who preys on tourists! They were amazing.

They invited us to come with them to their friends house, it was a mud hut with tarps ...

... to make our own food. For what it costs me to live for an entire day in Bolivia including hotel, food and whatever else, I could eat maybe two homemade meals in Chile. It is significantly more expensive than Chicago, in terms of food at least.

So we hightailed it out of there after a day and a half. A night bus took us all the way to Arica, on the Northern border with Peru. From there we continued on to Arequipa Peru where the next chapter of our journey transpired.

... uma cidade que vive praticamente de sua paisagem impressionante do famoso Deserto de Atacama e do turismo de massa que atinge aquela área. Depois de finalizarmos nosso lindo tour pelo deserto de Uyunir na Bolivia, atravessamos a fronteira entre bolivia e chile de onibus. Decidimos ficar em San Pedro somente alguns dias para descancar, depois do lindo mas cansativo tour por uyunir. Sendo assim destes dois dias que ficamos ...

... to the morning sun geyser basin. This was interesting to see but smelt awful! From there we went to our hostel which we would be staying in that first night and had lunch. We were slightly concerned about how cold it would get as the rooms were huge and there was no electricity, let alone heaters. Our jeep driver Daniel had also informed us that in the winter it can get as cold as -35 at night!! The hostel was literally in the middle of ...