Park Calama
Camino Aeropuerto 1392 Calama, Chile
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Mary!
NIce flight north to Calama. Breathtaking views of the Andes. We were a bit too early for check-in at the Park Hotel, but they held our bags. Being, mid-morning we called Mary to say we had arrived, and woke her up, this being her winter school vacation. Eventually Mary took a taxi to our hotel and showed us some of the sights on a walk around …
Beginning to Return Home
Nice restful night, frantic last minute pack-up after breakfast. All on-time. We are really almost within walking distance of the airport, but we do have all this luggage. The taxi didn't come! For a price, someone with a car at the hotel took us the short drive to the airport. We are rather efficient at this by now: I held our place in line for …
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Day 61 – World’s largest copper mine
... help.
We had finally arrived to the tourist office for the Chuquicamata mine. Unfortunately, our email to them hadn’t been received, so we were on the wait list for this afternoon’s tour. However, we had arrived so early that we had plenty of time for lunch. We love our set menus and the restaurant across the street, Nature’s Food, had a great one for a cheap rate.
The tour bus was as large as the ...
Day 56 –San Pedro, we have a problem
... that the delay is caused by problems at the Chile immigration office. The tours that started in San Pedro were delayed for over three hours when one of the stamps at the office broke. With no other option, they sent an officer to Calama to borrow a stamp for the day. We wait.
At 1:30pm, the bus finally arrived and within 5 minutes, our Mercedes Benz bus was running on asphalt, the first in a while. Also on the bus were Anika and Bodo from Germany!
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Chilean Miners
... that, we continued on to the nearby mine and drove down to a viewing platform. We stood at the top of the 3km wide, 5km long hole and had to look 1km down to the bottom of the mine to see the machines in action. To say it was big would be an understatement but i'll stop there because it was really a place that had to be seen to appreciate fully.
The town of Calama accommodates for the miners with their ...



