Blogs from San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta Region, Chile, South America - page 40

After our all night bus ride we arrived in Antofogasta in day light. We found a hotel nearby, left our bags and had a look around. The city wasn´t particuarly inspiring. We booked our bus tickets to San Pedro for the next day and found an awesome cafe with huge salads. The bus to San Pedro pulled in just after dark and as usual we were haranged by a multitude of hostel owners. We also met a german tourist called Rene and the three of us decided on a hostel together. So it wasn´t quite so worrying when the van drove round the back streets in the dark and we ended up safely at a really nice hostel which had only been open 10 days. The hostel owner was really friendly and loved talking about the ... read more

Noch Mendoza han ich e paar gmüetligi ruhigi Tag in Salta verbrocht. Salta isch e kleineri, sehr schön im grüene glägeni Stadt im Norde vo Argentinie. Gwohnt han ich bi dr Fomia imene sogenannte Casa de familia. Sie ish 72 Joor alt, Grossmuetter vo 3 Enkelkinder und wohnt zentral in dr Innestadt vo Salta. Sit e paar Joor duet si unter anderem au für d ELG (europäisch südamerikanische Organisation, die Org. wo ich d Schuel in Córdoba bsuecht ha) Studänte uffnäh. Si isch e Original und kennt in Salta glaub so ziemlig jedi und jede. Demensprächend gits glaub nüt wo si nid organisiere cha. An 2 Ööbe het sie e Tanzlehrerin organisiert, wo uns (mir und insgesamt 8 Chicas zwüsche 5 (ihrer jüngschte Enkelin) und 72 Joor (sie sälber) bi sich im Innehof Folklore Tanzlektione gäh ... read more

Towards the Andes, deeper in the vast dryness of the desert is San Pedro de Atacama. It is a small town of clay-brick houses and a white-painted church next to the plaza. The broad valley around San Pedro is formed by some salty erroded desert hills in the west and the rising Andes in the east which form a dramatic backdrop of a chain of snowcapped volcanos at the border between Chile and Bolivia. Most remarkable on one end the high peak of Licancabur towers over it all. San Pedro's townsfolk, their thin belt of green fields around town, and of course the lavish tourists all depend on the sparse waters of a small river running down the valley and nearly drying up afterwards. During daytime you better get into the shade here. The sun is ... read more

San Pedro de Atacama, in the desert of the same name . A small town with a reputation for being a touristy place where they quickly separate tourists and travellers from their cash. This was to be our last stop before heading home and the main reasons for going were that it was on the way back towards Lima for the dreaded flight to London, it was a region of Chile we had not seen before, it supposedly had lots of interesting sites/sights to see, and most of all (for me at least) it is the start gazing capital of the world. Up here in the clear thin air of the Atacama, observatories are dotted about all over the place, and Patrick Moore regularly comes here for his holidays. (well that might not actually be true). ... read more

No dia 12, fomos conhecer o salar do Atacama e as Lagunas Altiplanicas. No dia 13 fomos ao geiser do Tatio, um tour que começava às 4:00 da manhã, para vermos os geisers em atividade. ... read more