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Blogs from Atacama, Chile, South America
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May 1st 2013
I've spent the last 2 months going between Chile and Argentina as I head north to Bolivia. My last weeks in these countries included some time in Salta ( minus the salt )and 4 nights in the Atacama desert in Chile ( plus the salt ) where it's dirty, gorgeous, hot and cold all at once. Salta was my last stop in Argentina, a pretty white city surrounded mountains. I only had a couple of days here and the first day I was sick (flu) so just checked out the town. I went to a really good museum which told the story of the inca children. This is my recollection of the story from what I seen, so don't hold me to the facts. The inca children were discovered by archaeologists only recently (1999) at the ... read more
April 10th 2013
un bien triste titre, temporaire je l'espere...mais je ne peux continuer a cause de problemes techniques: mon ordinateur est hs, il ne s' allume plus et c est difficile sans lui, surtout pour les photos. petit resume: le W s' est bien passe (difficilement), faut vraiment que je vous raconte tellement c' etait beau. Depuis je suis allee a La Serena au nord de santiago pour les vignes de pisco et observer les etoiles, jupiter et saturne au telescope puis viree a valparaiso vendredi ou nous a rejoint beata,superbe egalement depuis lundi soir je suis a san pedro de atacama,au nord, aux frontières de la bolivie et de l'argentine,au milieu du desert, incroyable j'espere pouvoir raconter tout ca avant de rentrer (retour dans moins de 3 semaines maintenant...) melanie... read more
February 21st 2013
Arriving into Copiapo airport in the North of the atacama desert on the early morning flight from Calama was an interesting experience. The flight stops at Copiapo before picking up extra passengers and continuing on to Santiago. However upon landing it wasn't clear when you were supposed to get off the plane so when passengers started boarding the plane I panicked and asked a stewardess if it was time to get off. After giving me several puzzled looks and asking why I was not travelling to Santiago they eventually let me off the plane and into Copiapo airport. I was the only one getting off at Copiapo, and its clear to see why. There's nothing there but sand, heat, cactuses and heat. I decided to hire a car from Copiapo as the places I'd been recommended ... read more
January 24th 2013
Hello again, I hope you are well and enjoying the snow! Here are some more photos, this time of Chile. We have found a great internet cafe so are making the most of it!!! Take care, Miss Thomas... read more
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December 14th 2012
Hello Everyone, I hope you are well and all the Christmas plays, services and celebrations have gone or are going well. I am sorry I haven’t written for a while. We have been quite busy and our time in South America has quickly run out. Peru In the end we spent over 3 weeks in Peru. When we first arrived we were not sure if we would like the country as we staying in a town that was not very nice. However we quickly found some lovely places and realised our first impressions had been wrong. We spent a few days in Trujillo, a city in the north of Peru that has a colonial centre and lots of history near by. We were lucky enough to arrive when a ‘festival for teenagers’ was on. The set ... read more
December 14th 2012
Day 13. Pirate bays and Desert Cities. Woke up early feeling quite strange in the bed and cabin I found myself in, in a place called Bahia Inglesa, so named because of the English pirates who hung out there. Weird because the night before, I thought I had come across some beach holiday paradise. I was excited and already working out how we could stay there an extra night. In retrospect, it was dark when we arrived and the rest of the family didn’t seem to share my enthusiasm. In the morning I realised we had stumbled across a less-cheerful version of Butlins. Rows of chalets with paper thin walls so you can hear everything the neighbours say, wash and eat. The chalet had a feeling of neglect and of a hundred different families passing through ... read more
November 20th 2012
Travelled from the snowy mountains of Southern Patagonia to the dust and warmth of the Atacama Desert in the north of Chile via Santiago. Our base was San Pedro de Atacama, a small oasis village of clay-coloured adobe houses and dirt streets and here we stayed for 3 days exploring the area. San Pedro is 2436 metres above sea level and every now and again altitude sickness kicked in and to help overcome this condition coca sweets or leaves are recommended. Our trips out included a visit to the Valle de la Luna which is a lunar type valley of unusual rock formations and sweeping sand dunes,the highest being the Duna Mayor. Here we climbed the dune at dusk for wonderful views of the Andean peaks and volcanoes coated in the late evening light. Our visit ... read more
Chile - San Pedro de Atacama (29th October - 1st November)
Published: February 5th 2013South America » Chile » Atacama
November 18th 2012
The bus we caught from Santiago took 23 hour to reach a place called Calama, on our way to San Pedro de Atacama. Up until this point, our South American long-haul bus trips had not been very successful regarding the movie entertainment on offer. This trip started pretty well but soon deteriorated as the kilometres, and hours, wore on. The first movie was in English with Spanish subtitles; a really good Christian movie call Courageous about men committing themselves to being men of God who stand up for their beliefs and who lead by example for their family and friends. The Fast and the Furious soon followed, a no-brainer of a movie made even less interesting (or more interesting, I'm not sure) by the fact it was dubbed in Spanish with Spanish subtitles. Vin Diesel somehow ... read more
October 6th 2012
San Pedro is the most chilled out place in the world so far!! After getting off the coach, we sorted a room in Hostel Eden then headed straight out to the dunes for half a day of sand boarding. Walking up the dunes it felt like my heart was going to jump out of my throat, it was crazy difficult, but the short thrill on the trip down was worth it. I felt like a kid on a slide again, getting to the bottom and running back up to the top for the ride to begin again!! When I stopped to take in the view at the top, and catch my breath, you could see a Mars like landscape. The wind whipped the sand off the top of the ridge ensuring the top always formed a ... read more
