San Pedro De Atacama Stories


San Pedro de Atacama

San Pedro was iniatially just going to be a stopover to brake the journey up to Peru but we liked it's relaxed atmosphere and ended up staying for a few days. The town is quite small with white washed and adobe buildings and sandy roads. It is in the middle of the dessert and while it's hot and sunny during the day, the temperature plummets at night and...


San Pedro de Atacama

Back in Chile we flew to the north to a little desert town called San Pedro de Atacama which we fell in love with! Not an industrial building in sight, they are all low rise, shack type buildings made from stone. It reminds me of the movie Jewel of the Nile! We stayed in a lovely little hostel called Cabur which is just out of the centre and has a ve...


the geysers

The minibus picked me up at 4am and it was about a 2 1/2 hr drive to the geysers. It was cold, somewhere in the 20 degre range. I was the only English speaker and the guide was only spanish so I missed a lot of the explainations. There were probably a thousand small blow holes where steam was exciting sporadically. There were probably 25 or more ...


fairwell to Peru

Guess I will back up a bit as I have been so busy, and then at times no access to internet. Lake Titicaca seems ages ago although only a week. Took a 3 day tour there from Puno. Stayed one night with a family on Isle Amantani. It was pretty primitive but very interesting to see how they live a nd cook in that tiny kitchen with dirt floor and clay...