San Pedro de Atacama Hostels - Reviews and Rates

On the third day of the Uyuni trip we were dropped at the Chilean border control which is a hut in the middle of the desert at 5000m. We waited ages with a load of other tourists until a minibus turned up. Clearly everyone wouldn´t fit on so rather than do the English thing and queue, we have learned to just shove everyone out the way and bundl...

Hier moet je wat voor over hebben, vertrek om 4u s nachts want de geisers zijn enkel actief tussen 6 en 7am. Uiteindelijk waren de geisers zelf niet echt de moeite, maar de terugweg over de altiplano wel. Prachtige natuur maar gevaarlijke weg zelf met een huurwagen op stap gaan is niet echt aan te raden. Morgen verlaten we het Noorden en reizen ...

I just spent one night in San Pedro, the place from where I'll start my trip in the desert. To get to the village, you have to cross mountains for hours, pass the Argentinian boarder, then keep on travelling for at least an hour in a no-man's land, then pass the Chilean boarder (quite interesting when the whole country is on strike!) and then yo...

03 noviembre 2008: dedicamos el dia a planear nuestra aventura a Bolivia, el circuito del Salar de Uyuni. Este sera una de las partes mas difíciles de nuestro viaje pues visitaremos zonas en las que no hay hoteles sino refugios de montana, las temperaturas descienden a los -15 C, dormiremos a altitudes de mas de 4.000m y los bolivianos que organ...

As soon as we got on the bus we knew we were entering a different country - it was in good repair, clean, the road was paved and had road signs, when we got to border control it was structured and organised! Of course, this means that Chile is more expensive than Bolivia, the poorest country in South America. Got to San Pedro de Atacama about lu...

Sightseeing around the town in the morning. In the afternoon took a tour to into Valle de Muerte (Valley of death) and Valle de Luna (Valley of Moon). Fisrt stop was the death valley. The name is probably a mis-spelling. The original name is thought to be Valle de Marte (Valley of Mars), but the name was probably lost in translation. We then ent...

So we finally arrive in San Pedro, its gone midnight, it´s freezing and there is nothing open! After grabbing our bags and getting through immigration asap (which was a joke in itself), we made our way into town with the hopes of finding somewhere to stay the night before everyone else on the bus. After walking around for 10 minutes or so with a...

Quick note as the internet is the slowest we´ve seen even thought ehy charge 3x as much as the cities and advertise falsely that it is fast. Hmmm, first impressions is that I (Kate) feel like I am being a bit ripped off. Yes, it´s a super cute place in the desert, inan oasis style setting, lots of cute adobe built homes and loads of tours to see...

Now, I don't like to complain. I am, after all, easy going. But I've been hearing for a long time about how Christmas arrives earlier each year - decorations going up before the end of October, and so on. But this year, it's just got silly. We're not even in summer yet - just the tail end of a hot spring, and already I hear Christmas Carols all ...

San Pedro de Atacama We arrived in San Pedro, no hassle at the borders or anything so all good. This place is in the Atacama desert ( the driest place on earth apparnetly), so its nice and warm. We found our campsite, this was our first night camping, so we were very excited. It was a lovely campsite, camping Takha Takha, really nice with a litt...