 | San Pedro de Atacama
2009-05-15, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: rossnkaren | | 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... |
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 | San Pedro de Atacama
2008-11-22, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: GBrownlie | | 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 mad... |
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 | the geysers
2008-11-26, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: papabeek | | 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 miss... |
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| fairwell to Peru
2008-11-26, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: papabeek | | 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 nigh... |
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 | Atacama!
2008-05-16, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: letlozz | | Sooo, with only a week left to go we are now in the Atacama desert! We spent the weekend in La Serena, with Alexis´s aunts family... for people who we have such a tenuous link to, they were so kind, t... |
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 | A rabbit and sand.
2008-05-03, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: dan | | It turns out that the South Americans also bring unusual animals onto buses. A very calm looking rabbit, although that might have been because its ears and legs were taped together (to clarify: the ea... |
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 | How much???????????????
2007-06-04, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: rossycaz | | We´ve spent a couple of days here in San Pedro de Atacama and talk about expensive!!! (we were seriously contemplating going back to Bolivia!!). We took a walk out to see some more ruins (that´s it, N... |
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 | Cheers!
2007-06-02, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: rossycaz | | So here we are in our fourth country after an amazing 3 day trip. After hearing some horror stories of people coooped up for 3 days in a 4wd with, how shall we put it, not good travelling companions, ... |
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 | Driest Desert in the WORLD
2006-05-04, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: Aenglish84 | | Friday night I took a bus to the driest desert in the world. ( i was already in the desert, but this is where all the cool places are) I arrived in the touristy town of San Pedro Atacama late. I had t... |
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 | Bands & Ghosts
2006-12-22, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: lindy | | Yesterday was bizarre. My friend Imir and I had an incredibly expensive dinner...yes I cannot afford chile...in this white resturuant and then we went to have drinks at a bar semi near our campsite. ... |
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 | My week in the desert
2006-02-04, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: scottr128 | | Sorry it has been awhile again. So lets get right into shall we. For the record Mendoza wan´t in the 90´s it as actually 106. But who is counting. I don´t know if I have ever been somewhere so hot... |
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 | Sand In All The Cracks
2006-01-10, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: mala | | The Atacama is the driest desert in the world. There are sections where a single drop of rain has never been recorded. This is not a difficult concept to grasp as you walk through the streets of San P... |
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| Atacama Desert
2005-06-26, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: vivichris | | From Iquique, we took an overnight bus to San Pedro to Atacama, which is close to the borders of Argentina and Bolivia.
The desert & mountain scenery was just amazing. We did a couple of nice tours... |
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 | Day 7 - Back to Salta
2005-05-24, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: katalin | | My day started with crossing the Chilean boarder - and congratulating myself for being on the bus at all. There´s no bus station at San Pedroo - usually busses leave from the company´s office, but sur... |
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 | Day 6 - Desert, Salt lakes and volcanoes
2005-05-23, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: katalin | | Today I went on an excursion in the desert - abbsolutely amazing! Our first stop was the Salar de Atacama with lots of salt and a flamingoo reserve. Very impressive - the lake is 90 km long and 55 km ... |
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 | Day 5 - Salta to San Pedro de Atacama
2005-05-22, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: katalin | | Today has been the best day of the trip so far. I got toe the bus station at 7am and caught the bus to San Pedro - first we went to Jujuy to pick up some more people, and by the time we started our as... |
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 | Midnight at the Oasis
2004-08-19, San Pedro De Atacama, Chile. By: melanie | | Hello, and welcome to all our new found friends from ´The Gaucho Adventure´.. hope you all made it home safely!
Have to make this a quick entry as I{m about to go Mountain Biking in Moon Valley!
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 | Would you like chips with your salt? Pt1
2003-07-23, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: Alex_RTW | | After a blissful evening in one of the most comfortable rooms we'd spent a night in since setting off, we ventured out into the thin air and freezing cold of Uyuni. The sun was warm though and we were... |
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| Tupiza Round-up
2003-07-21, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: Alex_RTW | | It seems like ages since I last sat down to write a new entry, the fact is we've been doing so much lately that we've barely had time to sit down! So here's the missing bits from our time in Tupiza...... |
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 | San Pedro and Toconao
2002-10-18, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: kyt | | San Pedro de Atacama is located in the heart of the driest desert on the earth, at an altitude of 7,000 feet, and surrounded by a green oasis. Never been so dusty in our entire lives... |
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 | Salt Flats
2002-10-17, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: kyt | | Second largest set of salt flats in the world. They supply 40% of the world's lithium... That's your tidbit of trivia for the day. |
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 | Machuca Day Hike
2002-10-15, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: kyt | | 19k day hike following a creek through a desert valley. Destination: remote town with a local population of 5 where the landscape changes from sand and scrub to lush prairie with flamingos, llamas an... |
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 | Valle de La Luna
2002-10-14, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: kyt | | Epic mountain bike excursion to the moonscape outside of San Pedro. 2 Camelbacks $60, 6 litres agua 4pso, bike rental 15pso, sunscreen 5pso, granola 1pso....watching Karla bomb a steep descent on loo... |
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 | Not much happening
2002-12-11, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. By: Flyin_Scot | | Northern Chile
Crossed the chilean border and within a matter of a hundred yards, the differences
between the Bolivian and Chilean way of life became apparent....there was a....tarmac road,
I h... |
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