San Pedro de Atacama Resort

... The Iranian island of Kish in the Persian Gulf is where many Iranians travel for a beach holiday. Kish definitely isn't your standard resort island. The men relax on the beach and swim in the Gulf while women sit to the side fully covered, tanning their ...

... , I had to make tracks and squared bill at the hostel before boarding a night bus....an indirect service via Calama to San Pedro de Atacama near Argentinian/Bolivian border. 14th: had to get off bus at 3am for yet another regional BAGGAGE AND PASSPORT ...

Chile, Civilized Surroundings, Uncivilized Prices As we walked around the desert oasis of San Pedro de Atacama, with clean, orderly streets, modern cars, flashy bars and restaurants, we had a kind of feeling of relief of ...

... you, right now, effortlessly tansversing the world's largest, driest desert! And so we find ourselves in the cash-cow village of San Pedro de Atacama to wait out Lou's arival (she decided to spend a few more days in Argentina, meeting up with a friend ...

... as we were hoping to find some pretty serious fossils of sharks and dolphins but all we found were teeth.... anyway... Night-bus to San Pedro The same evening we took our first night bus and headed for San Pedro, a great place in the desert ...

... intensive course to learn to speak Spanish, and was a bit tired and stressed. The scenery on the 1 1/2 hour drive to San Pedro de Atacama was amazing - very flat, barren, bleak, sandy, and rocky, with some of the weirdest rock formations. Unfortunately ...

... to keep us safe but it was pretty shocking at the same time. We´re now in the Atacama Desert in a small village called San Pedro de Atacama, which is, sadly, totally overrun by tourists, or "gringos" as we´re collectively called. The scenery in the ...

... watched the sunset (not as good as the others we have seen) and then the moon rose - being a full moon it was spectacular with the sun on the mountains and the moon rising. back down the hill, into San Pedro for a light dinner and back to the resort. ...

... Eurotel hotel in order to catch a flight to Calama, where we boarded a bus to take us to the Explora hotel in San Pedro de Atacama.   I didn't know what to expect (Jane booked everything; that's my excuse) so first, a few words about the area we ...

... journey we were undertaking that evening - a night bus to Calama followed by a transfer bus to the town of San Pedro de Atacama. We spent a happy 2 hours marvelling at the differences between this hypermarket and the shopping experience back home until ...

... a lovely amazing place – a small oasis in the middle of the world's driest desert. We took the day bus from Salta to San Pedro de Atacama, leaving at 7 am from our hostel. Fortunately a lot of people we’d met in our hostel were on the same bus ...

... were used to. That being said, we chose to stay in a hotel rather than a hostel, which bumped up the price a bit. San Pedro de Atacama is an amazing place. It is absolutely in the middle of nowhere, with mountains all around it. Most of the buildings ...

... of car transporters, have all our bags searched and finally after about 2 hours head into Chile and our destination of San Pedro De Atacama.  This is a tiny little Byron Bay type hippy town charging high prices for everything but if the budget ...

San Pedro de Atacama is in Northern Chile in the middle of the desert. It's a really small little town, and its also really pretty - like a little Spanish seaside resort or something! All the shops sell flip flips and ice creams and real beachy type ...

... and managed to get a seat on a 4 o'clock bus to Calama. I arrived in Calama at about 9am and then got another bus to San Pedro de Atacama. Which is where I am now. I am planning on staying here for 3 nights before moving on to Bolivia, but anything could ...

... what that is:P We had a good night out, and a nice walk around before setting of again the very next day to go to San Pedro de Atacama. After about a 24 hour trip we were finally here! It´s in the middle of the desert so lovely and warm and Daisy says ...

... strong. After 570 k’s (liar tourist lady), and thinking my fingers would drop off I finally coast down the last 20 k’s into San Pedro, feeling my hands and body warming up every second. It once again had been a big day, meant to be a small ...

... in Astronomy as a child I was dying to get my hands on a telescope and take advantage of this, so I headed out to San Pedro's public obvservatory where a very glib French astronomer showed us the sights of the Southern skies. By far and away this is ...

... - guy said i was to stop beng lazy and have a go at writing the blog, so here goes! We are currently in San Pedro, Chile, which is basically the Queenstown of Chile, and is the place we are leaving for our 2night, 3day tour across salt flats ...

... evening, we had booked on to a reccommended star gazing tour at the home of Astronomer Alain Maury in the middle of the Atacama Desert. So, wearing about 10 layers of clothes we set out, it was really interesting and informative as Alain took us through ...