San Pedro Holiday Hotel

... also called Kelli, the girl who had asked me to bring some t-shirts to Belize for her. We stopped at the Hangover Bar at the Holiday Hotel for a drink and when we got back to Ruby's, she was there waiting for us. We talked about island life and how she ...

... of falling over and I only pushed her once. It was a good one too as she got a rather fetching scraped knee... (8) In San Pedro, having to duck and weave for about 50m through a coffee bean plantation to get to the other side of the village ...

San Pedro de Atacama 7-17-10 Eight hours on two comfortable buses from Iquique to San Pedro de Atacama was not bad at all in comparison to the series of events that occurred after I hit the ground, anxious to go to my room and get something to eat. ...

... on the highway. I fuelled the bike up and took a quick meal in a shopping mall. I was undecided whether I should push on to San Pedro de Atacama that evening, which would involve another three or so hours of riding. I was quite tired, in part due to the ...

... that, with enjoyment levels dropping fast, we flagged down a guy in a bakkie driving past, and he gave us a lift back into San Pedro, thank god! After that we had a shower, repacked our bags, had some dinner and boarded our longest bus jouney to date - ...

Was up too late just talking, hanging out. Plus they were setting off huge bombas (fireworks) because of the holiday here. So every half hour when I did finally go to bed I was jumping out of my skin. Because of the lack of sleep, after class I took a 4 ...

San Pedro de ...

... (the town is at 2,436 metres above sea level), a lack of sleep and the aroma of disinfectant, so we found a nice hotel and crashed. San Pedro de Atacama. Its on the edge of the Atacama Desert, so should have guessed it would be hot, dry and just a ...

... pretty but after all the scenery we've seen the last few days it wasn't all that special. I really liked the feeling of San Pedro. I would have liked to have stayed for another few days just to relax and "holiday" which not something I've really been ...

... the Tatio geysers. Then, I woke up at 4:00 on my last day to see water springing at 4300m in an uncommon place, before relaxing in a pool. Leaving San Pedro, I realized we really were in the desert. Sand is the only thing you can see around during hours. ...

... had be to enrol in Spanish school, stay for a week and then move on, but we immediately found ourselves wanting to stay forever. San Pedro (population 10,000) is a little lakeside town with just a few roads, lined with cafes, great little restaurants and ...

... from the dreaded 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 ...

... to San Pedro, which is near the ship terminal, so we caught a cab to our hotel. We stayed at the Doubletree in San Pedro. It was like a Holiday Inn that was renovated 10 years ago. It was quite a letdown after the Andaz (but it was like a castle compared ...

... of anywhere on earth. It was annexed from Bolivia in the War of the Pacific, and there was a national holiday on Friday celebrating that. San Pedro de Atacama is sort of a tourist launching point for all sorts of desert related tours. We finally arrived ...

... up eating something bad that night and got really sick and i slept for 36 hours! So that was about the extent of my time in San Pedro! Mark left aftertwo days and i ended up meeting back up with Fay from singapore and we decided to go back to antigua. We ...

... nice cabin style room with a brand new bathroom, a comfy bed and most importantly fantastic wall heating for the chilly desert nights. San Pedro de Atacama is a lovely little town, more like the Inca towns of the Andes than anywhere else in Chile.  ...

... got to Uyuni in Boliva and here's a couple of shots of the market before we headed back to Chile. And so I was back in San Pedro when I last wrote to you stuck there with only a few pounds to my name and no means of getting any more money ...

... look bad but it was fine, and I got filmed, did ya see me on the news!? We were evacuated to San Pedro Sula, dodgetown, and told not to leave our hotel under any circumstances (man ya wouldn`t if ya saw this place!)  it had a 6 foot wall, topped ...

... , which I am guessing is what happened with me! She also said that the speed in which we went from 2300 metres above sea level in San Pedro to 4500 at the place we stayed at was pretty unheard of, but as our guide has been doing this trip twice a week for ...

... to San Pedro required a drop in elevation of 1,500 meters in 47 kilometers of road. We were driven straight to immigration office in San Pedro de Atacama. The first thing we did was remove as many layers as we could, including long johns. We’ve been ...