San Pedro de Atacama Travel Blogs

This place was amazing. Unlike any place I've ever seen before. A short drive from San Pedro de Atacama...Chris and I decided to visit Laguna Chaxa on our way back from San Pedro, on the way back to Iquique. Once again- that fucking travel book that I had, made this place sound like something compl…

We took an early morning bus to Calama for the flight back to Santiago. The plan was then to bus from Santiago to Valparaiso. Met an interesting Belgian on the bus to Calama. He's a biologist who is helping with cataloging all the known agricultural plants in the world. So he travels to many parts …

---Work in progress--- Three week trip. Places visited: Bolivia: Santa Cruz, Camiri, Entre Rios, Tarija, Tupiza, Uyuni, Villamar. Chile: San Pedro de Atacama, La Serena, Santiago. Easter Island

There is no solid reason it took me this long to post this, but I have had a hard time summing up my trip to San Pedro de Atacama. Each year, the program goes on a trip somewhere in Chile, sometimes to Patagonia in the South and sometimes to the Atacama Desert in the North. At first I was bumme…

Well the bubble had to burst some time.  I had trouble sleeping during the night and woke up with a major cold.  Had a big breakfast and then went into town.  Museum was interesting.  ATM was out of money so had to go to a moneychanger; nasty little man.  I know they’re r…

We departed at 04:30 from the hotel and after a 2 hour van drive from hell (the road was horrible) we arrived at the Geyser Del Tatio (locally known as Los Geiseres del Tatio). These geysers are located within the Andes Mountains of northern Chile at 4,200 meters above mean sea level, 150 kilom…

We took an overnight bus from Iquique to San Pedro. Straight away we were shocked by the amount of gringoes when we exited the bus. Apparantly this is a ¨backpacker´s mecca¨. Everything was so over priced and there were so many foreigners. The town itself was small (6 blocks squared) but re…

Random photos from my travels.

With the coast road closed I headed through the driest part of the Atacama desert on the way to Tocopilla. In most deserts you see the places where water runs when it does rain but in this part of the Atacama you don´t see that because, well, it never rains. There are places where there has not be…

I{ve entrenched myself into my little adobe paradise for another day. Not particularly because I get overly enthusiastic over the sandboarding, biking, paragliding and assorted other delights that await us tourists here, but because there is something unparalled about lazing around the Plaza de Arm…

Didn´t last long in Bolivia, I left La Paz on an overnight bus to Uyuni to start the Salt Plain tour. It was an interesting journey because the road deteriorated to a bumpy dirt tracj half way through the night and there was only one blanket per 2 seats. Mine was stolen by the guy behind me but th…

We arrived in San Pedro town, and at first glances it seems like a lovely little town - dusty streets lined with nice looking hostels and cafes.  As soon as the bus stopped we were hounded by a few hotel/hostel owners and while Paul and Aideen went to the HI hostel, I went down to Hostel Corva…

Map and some photos of my second trip around South America. Blogs coming soon! Argentina - Uruguay - Paraguay - Bolivia - Chile - Patagonia

Hello All, I got up this morning after a decent nights sleep.  The temperature got down low enough at over 7,000 feet that it was comfortable sleeping weather.  I had about an hour, so I went into town to do some more exploring.  The moment I left the Residencial I heard music.…

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