Calama Hotels - Reviews and Rates

So after arriving back from the observatory at 3.30 am , we took a 6 am bus to the city of Calama, some 3 hours away through the Atacama desert. We would be arriving at around 9am, and then be taking the 10pm bus to the city of Arica, which is on the Peru/Chile border. So what do you do if your in Calama for 12 hours? Ask the towns tourist offic...

As I arrived into Calama on the bus, I asked a couple Id heard talking in English, (yes always go for the easy option) if they were heading into the town center to find a place to stay for the night.. As it turned out they both lived in the City, both teachers, she was from Philadelphia and he was from Christchurch New Zealand, and were heading ...

Well...we made it through another long trip. This will probably be the last "long distance" bus ride that we take which is good news. The bad news is that from now until USA, the distances will be smaller but the time on buses will not be less - roads will be worse and the vehicles older, so mixed feeling. Anyway, the reason for coming to Calama...

Endlich! Nach diesmal 38 Stunden Reise bin ich von Cusco kommend in der Wûstenstadt Calama angekommen. Auf der Rueckreise bezahlte ich unwesentlich mehr und bin dafuer sehr ruhig gereist. Natuerlich auch, weil ich ein Muskel- Entspannungsmedikament bekommen habe, das wohl auch Elefanten problemlos in den Schlaf wiegen wuerde... Um die 160'000 Ei...

Hi guys, not gonna say too much but will explain the log title.. We were meant to catch a train from Calama in chile to Uyuni in Bolivia.... When we arrived everything was shut in the town due it still being the national holiday so the train tickets wernt going on sale until 9pm.. No problem, the train wasnt leaving until 12 midnight so we had p...

It wasn't my first time in Calama but it was going to be in Chuquicamata and the copper miners. I had to see them, influenced by the movie Motorcycle Diaries. And they were impressive, a huge hole, or should call it an abyss? Levels and levels of digging, enormous tractors everywhere, white slabs and green copper stones. That's pretty much the s...

Llevamos un mes y una semana en San Pedro. Hemos hechos muchos amigos, la mayoría chilenos. Trabajamos 6 días a la semana en un restaurante y tal vez por eso, el tiempo se pasa volando. No tenemos cuenta de los días. Llevamos el tiempo contando el número de días libres que hemos tenido -hasta el momento 3 días libres-. De hecho, ayer tomamos nu...

Samstag, 5:00 Uhr. Die Strassen von Rio koennen auch mal leer sein! Ratz fatz ist das Taxi am Flughafen. Der Flug findet tatsaechlich statt. In der Schlange nur wenige Leute. Aber das Personal an den drei Schaltern gibt wirklich alles um den Eindruck zu erwecken, es habe heute seinen ersten Tag. Bei jedem, wirklich jedem dauert es 5 bis 10 Minut...

Getting out of San Pedro turned out to be much more of a problem than we thought it was going to be. We booked a first class bus to La Serena (7hrs north of Santiago, on the coast) and headed off on TUesday afternoon. After an hour and a half we got to Calama and then continued on to the mountain pass that would take us from the Andes to sea lev...