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San Pedro de Atacama : Tourist trap central.
(Dec 01 '06)
"Rachel said to me: "If you travelled this country without you boyfriend, things would be very different." I now found out what she meant."
Bolivia the Surreal
(Dec 16 '05)
Uyuni Blivia was not as bad as people said, I had heard it was a dump. I think other places are worse, and at least Uyuni had some decent pizza, cold beer, and fun people. We found a tour company ...
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Deserts and Desserts
(May 11 '07)
Hi all,
It´s not been long since our last update, but we´re packing a lot in before our stop off in England so thought it better to send shorter more frequent blogs.
Since we last updated you we ...
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Journey to the driest place on Earth
(Mar 06 '06)
This being day 60, this is the last of the blog updates for South America. A number of you have pointed out that this update is now 2 days late. I dont mean to keep my public waiting. Real Travel ...
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San pedro de Atacama
(Oct 17 '06)
I travelled to San Pedro with a girl (Anka) who I met in Iquique. We took the bus overnight for 7 hours and arrived mid morning.
That day we wondered around town and also went on a tour to the ...
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We arrived in San Pedro for a brief stay after our Salar tour. The town, like Uyuni, has a frontier town feeling to it and is in the middle of nowhere. The ...
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Alien landscapes in the desert
(Dec 05 '06)
"...the sunset had a yellow light and the falling sun cast an unusual hue accross the lanscape"
San Pedro de Atacama is an oasis town in the driest desert in the world. After Calama, San Pedro was an ...
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Doing the Moon Walk
(Jan 31 '08)
One of the recommended tours around San Pedro de Atacama is a visit to Valle de la Luna.....or Moon Valley as it is known to us English speakers, part of the Los Flamencos National Reserve and a ...
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A Different Planet
(Jun 07 '06)
After a short but interupted fligh we landed in Calama De Atacama The deaserts only airpoirt town. Here we were promptly met by the lowest temperatures yet - the desert get down below zero at night ...
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Do you know how incredibly excited I was when I found out that I could sandboard in San Pedro?!
My little face was beaming with excitement! It was almost like someone had told me that Christmas was ...
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Recent Blogs for San Pedro de Atacama
San Pedro and Calama - the journey to Salta
(Feb 01 '08)
We arrived in San Pedro as planned, it was pretty damn hot following
the freezing night we had spent in the refugio in Bolivia near the
border. We were dropped off in town and immediately started ...
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Hot and Cold
(Feb 02 '08)
Apparently, the best time to view the El Tatio Geysers is bright and early in the morning when the geothermal activity is at its greatest magnitude. By bright and early, this means some time between ...
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San Pedro de Atacama.....this place is amazing in more ways than one..... Although just a small oasis town, San Pedro has significant importance as not only is it considered the archeological centre ...
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