The stretch from the peruan border to the north, the andes (san pedro) to the east and port of caldera to the south comprises the Atacama desert. (roughly 500km long) Well it was a bit disapointing to drive it. Its not like the sahara. From san pedro to antofagasta and south, its pretty much gray dust. Pretty boring. towards the south, about 100...

Antofagasta The only reason we came here was to fly to Patagonia from here. When we arrived we were impressed with how westernised the place is but we were soon to be shocked. They have no bus structure, you are meant to guess what bus to get, there is no time table and lonely planet didn`t give us a map. This was the first place we`ve been wher...

It seems that I have been on a wild goose chase today. I have been trying to locate a collectivo (numero 3) a tip off the Lonely Planet gave, to get to the Ruinas de Huanchaca (an old silver mine). All the collectivos I have seen are 103, 110.... Not sure if setting out to find a number 3 is a joke. The locals donīt appear to know about it eithe...

After packing up all my stuff and saying goodbye to vina I headed north to the north of Chile for some warmer weather. My first stop was Antofagasta. Nothing too spectacular. It seemed to be like a small Santiago full of smog, unattractive and rude people, and fast food shops. One great highlight however was the arca de antofagasta. It is on eve...