Putre Lodges - Reviews and Rates

Our last adventure in Chile took us to the high elevations of Putre and surroundings. The area was literally breathtaking. At 4500 m above sea level just walking down the street was a cardio workout. Putre is a tiny community of roughly 2000 people set high on the Andean slopes. The town shared the same chearful and friendly demeanour of every o...

6km main idea about Northern Chile Vol I Leaving the ocean straight from Iquique to rich the 3.600 meters altitude of Putre at once, is not the cleverest thing to do. Arriving up there by car as fast as possible, can bring you in a peculiar situation like experiencing the feeling of walking on the moon, which is actually a good feeling when you ...

I don´t know if y´all have been able to keep up with the world news in the midst of this whole financial meltdown thing, but relations between Bolivia and the U.S. are chilly at best. Both countries have expelled their respective ambassadors, the DEA has been removed from Bolivia, and the U.S. has discontinued foriegn aid to the region. All this...

Avui ens hem llevat els dos amb mal de cap. Hem dormit a 3.800 metres d'alçada, i per si no teniem tots els números per tenir "mal d'alçada", amb aquella alegria que ens caracteritza, ahir vam seguir totes les recomacions per tenir-ne: - Menjar pasta: jo, alpaca amb salsa de la casa (està bona, recorda la vedella), i en Jako "xuleta" de porc. - ...

I am loading photos of the two day trip that took me from Arica to La Paz (Bolivia). We left in the morning, and drove with a guide slowly to Putre. It took us almost the whole day cause we stopped in a lot of places. I won't go into details right now cause it would be too long and boring but the villages we past we all very nice, always the chu...

I am writing these few words from about 5000m above sea level, on top of a mountain that was reachable without serious organization and guide. The view around me is breathtaking and there is for only sound but the gentle breeze of the cold wind of the North Chilean Andes, my heart beat racing and the noise of the pen on the paper writing these v...

The last days spent in Chile, where in Putre (which is next door to the Bolivian border and East of Arica), where we visited the highest non-navigable lake in the world. The lake is 4500m in altitude above sea level, which makes it breathtaking in both senses of the word. It was made even more spectacularly special as we were a group of 5 in tot...