Tulor San Pedro de Atacama
Domingo Atienza 523 San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
TravelPod Member ReviewsTulor San Pedro de Atacama
“great place to take a rest and get used to the altitude”
mirntat 9 contributions
United States
Nov 7, 2011
Individual Bungalows, nicely appointed, beds and linnens new, very quiet, very confortable. Good breakfast. Lovely people..
This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelTulor San Pedro de Atacama
Chewing coca leaves...
The hotel is very good, beds comfortalbe and all but still we didn't sleep very well, must be the altitude. Woke up at 5am with a giant headache.
There was a bowl of coca leafs on the breakfast buffet, everyone is chewing them.
Beautiful day, we are going to take it easy today.
Late afternoon we went into the Valley of the Moon, so …
2011 - Gringo Ralley, Chili and Argentina
Started this morning early with a briefing then left at 10:30 for the crossing of the Atacame Desert.
350 km of lunar landscape. Nothing grows here but, in some places there is lots of garbage, left behind by the miners. This is one of the biggest copper mining places in the world but they also mine silver and a variaiety of other …
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A few tips about San Pedro and the trips / excursions:
1) If you go on the Space tour, remember to wrap up really really warm. Although San Pedro is baking hot in the day, it is very cold at night and you really will be grateful for hat, scarf and gloves etc.
2) As they will tell you, the Space tour is totally dependent on weather conditions. Obviously there is no point in the tour going ahead if it is cloudy. Therefore, ...
Thirsty Anyone?
... see through each telescope and how to look through them. Another little myth expelled - you don't see better by closing one eye, you must use your hand to cover it, as your brain gets confused if you are closing one eye in order to see better. We tested this theory and surprisingly it is very true. We had around 45 mins to go around all the telescopes. Three were for viewing the moon; one the surface up close, the other the whole moon, and the last for ...



