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Travel Blogs from San Pedro de Atacama
Wüstenerlebnis in San Pedro de Atacama
Wenn man so viel unterwegs ist wie wir, fängt man gern & schnell an zu differenzieren. Viele Orte & Plätze sind natürlich sehr schön & sehenswert. Sonst würden wir sie ja nicht ansteuern. Trotzdem gibt es Höhepunkte. Und einer dieser Höhepunkte ist ganz klar die Atacama-Wüste.
Poldi & Christian hatten sich schon seit Tagen …
Your money please...
No, this wasn't a line pulled on us by a mugger but is in fact the motto of San Pedro de Atacama. You see this town's income is based purely on ripping tourists off, be it by hassling you on every street to go into their shop/restaurant/agency or by just jacking you on the tours you're forced to take as everything is too far to get to. But lets …
Tons of sand and some water
It was not easy to reach San Pedro de Atacama but after a 24 hour delay I got there. I thought I could join Christian in his bus but because of a bank holiday in the region, I arrived to late to catch it. I tried to hitch hike desperately but it did not work out. I had to stay in Purmamarca for the night. It was fun though. There was a nice group …
Warm in Chile
After the freezing cold of the Jeep trip it was a delightful surprise to descend 2000 meters from the bleak Bolivian border post down into the 'driest 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 …
Desert, desert, desert and alituide sickness
We had just crossed into Chile thinking we had another couple hrs on the bus to go til San Pedro but it stopped 5 mins after we had crossed the border if not less. In our mind we were thinking ¨I hope this is not San Pedro¨ We got off the bus what seemed like the middle of no where and followed yet another scout to a hostel. As we walked into the …