Hotel El Mirador Calama
Soto Mayor 2064 Calama, Chile
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelHotel El Mirador Calama
Day 56 –San Pedro, we have a problem
This morning, we woke up at 4:40am to visit the geyser during sunrise. The drive is short before we are soon wandering around an area filled with mist, sulphur and some massive geysers. The first geyser we walk past is just the exhaust vent for locally produced electricity generation; however, the line-up for photos near it was large. Everyone …
Day 57 – Day of Rest
We woke up by alarm in our $100 a night hotel room. Marie was the only one to get out of bed as I still needed a little rest time to get over my severe cold. I had no concept of how long she was gone for, but by the time I woke up again she had already eaten, showered, gone to the store and spent a few hours on the computer.
The German …
Day 58 – Haunted Calama
I woke up feeling a little better, but I still opted to sleep through breakfast. The cold was still beating me down, but I promised Marie we would go outside for lunch today. She's been trapped inside our hotel room and feeling a little stir crazy.
It was all I could do to round the corner from our hotel. Thankfully, we were close to a …
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Day 61 – World’s largest copper mine
... was at the end of its capacity. The pit is currently 1,180 meters deep but it can only go down 25 more meters before it becomes unsafe. The next steps, which will begin in a few months, will start using four underground shafts to extract additional copper from this site.
There are two forms of copper here, found in the form of oxides and sulfides. To economically feasible the ore needs to contain a purity of over 0.3%. The current ...
Chilean Miners
... a copper mine isn't on most people's agendas and for that reason, Calama isn't exactly booming with tourism. As a result, we could not book any accommodation in advance on the usual hostel websites, so we had to do it the 'old school' way - walking around town with our backpacks on, going from hotel to hotel. We found a grimey little hotel that stunk of various unpleasant things, but switched after the first ...
