Kimal Hotel San Pedro De Atacama

... email address. Although anyone could write any old address in their phone and say it belongs to a celebrity. And if you're going to make this stuff up you might as well pick a celebrity people have heard of. Still, he was a nice chap and said next time I was in San Francisco I could stay in his mansion. That would be interesting.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br ><br>The day after that I went to join up with my Chile and Bolivia tour group; The Atacama Crossing. It's the driest desert in the ...

... you that Chile has the largest number of Volcanoes, both active and inactive than any country on the planet? It is also the most seismicaly active place on earth, lying on a major fault line where there is an earth tremor every few minutes. It also has the largest number of men I have ever seen sporting dreadlocks, seems to be the craze in San Pedro ...<br>Today, Thursday is a chillout day, before making my way ...

... Uyuni about 6pm. I had a 10:15 pm train to the Bolivia/Argentina border, so had dinner at Minuteman Pizza (at the hotel) and headed to the station...pizza was delicious!!!<br><br>PS - no shower facilities during the trip =( My hair was CRAZY tangled from the wind, salt, dirt and dry air. Then my hotel was fully booked that night, so I wasn't allowed back into a room for a shower. Did the best I could in the bathroom (bird bath), but still couldn´t wash my hair =(

... uiteindelijk niet het geval, maar bleek dat mijn bus niet ging en we overgeboekt waren. Vaarwel window seat voorin, die ik aangevraagd had. Jammer want we reden door een prachtig natuur gebied, Altiplano, bergen, meren, veel flamingos en alpaca´s en roofvogels gezien. Grensovergang ging goed, was een beetje bang vooraf, want had van een Engelse jongen in de bus gehoord dat ze zo streng waren, maar het viel allemaal mee. Ook al dat ik niets bij me had wat geloof ik echt verboden ...

... are a wild Andean llama, always beige in colour, are not identified in any way th**efore the numb**s are known. Both llamas and vicunas are able to live side by side, neith** being a t**ritorial animal. Anoth** wild animal rare to see but we found one bounding across the plains is the fox, usually v**y shy and staying well away.<br><br>Not far away, as if it cannot be in the same area, the Valle de la Luna has a fantastic landscape caused by the **osion of salt ...

... lakes of Bolivia. There have been bad reports on all (and good) and some terrifying stories in a book in the tourist office! Anyway, we have opted for one called Estrellas del Sur, so fingers crossed...<br><br>When we next have a chance we will tell you all and hopefully have some amazing piccies of the colourful lakes, geysers and flamingoes!<br><br>Hasta luego,<br><br>Ben y Claire<br><br>

... squeezed into an adobe booth and sampled piscolas, or pisco and coke. In Gabriela´s opinion, Chilean pisco is better for piscola but Peruvian pisco is better for pisco sours. We´ll see. Apparently Chileans work a lot. She says this is the first long vacation her boyfriend has had in years. I told them Americans work a lot too, but teachers get a nice Euro style summer break. Only difference is that no one pays us for our break!

... ist ab** d** Sonnenunt**gang den wir auf ein** Sandduene beobachteten. Waehrend die Sonne unt**geht wechseln die Farben d** Felsen beinahe im Minutentakt. Am Abend gehts dann zurueck ins finst**e San Pedro. Es gibt zwar die ganze Nacht Strom ab** kaum Strassenlampen (Stirnlampe ist bei naechtlichem Stadtbummel zu empfehlen).<br><br>Frueh am naechsten morgen ging dann uns**e dreitaegige Tour in die Uyuni-Salzwueste, uns** Hauptgrund fu** den Abstech** nach San Pedro, los. <br>

... nice owner, had a glass of cold mango juice at a café next door, bought some groceries, cooked some dinner. San Pedro de Atacama is a small little town in the middle of the desert and looks like the set of a classic Western movie - one-storey adobe buildings, dirt roads, narrow streets, scorching sun...<br><br>Tomorrow, a full day tour is in order of I don't know quite what, but it should be exciting. As members of SAE, we got a 15 ...

... tea and general souvenirs. After that, because it was hot we went back to the hotel and played Perudo and Dominoes in the lounge area. We had an early tea (dinner, whatever) back in Adobe and prepared for a stupid o'clock start in the morning...<br><br>DAY 4<br><br>At 4am we were ready and waiting, having already checked out, in reception for our bus to take us up to the El Tatio Geysers. It was a two hour drive on bumpy roads ...