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Velvet moments: travel photo of the week – the moon
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 2 March 2011
Going for a star-gazing tour is a highlight of a visit to San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. I was about to take a photo of the moon through the telescope when someone bumped my elbow. I like the accidental effect. The Sea of Tranquility, where the Apollo11 landed, can clearly be seen (the middle of [...]
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Lady in the Atacama Desert
Blog: A Lady in London - 21 February 2011
I love the desert. There’s something awe-inspiring about an environment so harsh that only the most impossibly adaptable species of flora and fauna can survive. There’s something beautiful about dry, hot landscapes, cracked earth, and mountainous sand dunes. And there’s something powerful in a night sky so full of stars that it makes you remember [...]
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Into Argentina
Blog: The Road Chose Me - 50,000kms of ebb and flow - 28 November 2010
We’re utterly exhausted when we roll into San Pedro De Atacama, Chile, and searching around town to find a campground nearly finishes us off. Rob has endured the most by far, and is so throughly done he drops the Harley twice in ten minutes, before sitting on the ground, trying not to pass out. The [...]
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Into Chile
Blog: The Road Chose Me - 50,000kms of ebb and flow - 24 November 2010
Distant mountains surround a tiny shack in the middle of nowhere, marking the international border between Bolivia and Chile. Apparently we’ve arrived at immigration. The officer tells us there is no Customs here, it’s about 60km back across the desert, and we need to go there to hand in our vehicle paperwork. Running low on [...]
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The Salt Flats From San Pedro de Atacama– Working Out the Details…
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 29 October 2010
The first stage of Salt Flats tour is finding a decent tour operator and booking. We were lucky enough to have teamed up with an Australian couple (Ryan & Brenna) who had heard about a decent company. The companies all offer the same accommodation and stop at the same beauty spots. For us the critical [...]
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Sandy Pedro de Atacama…
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 24 October 2010
There are two pieces of useful information about the trip into San Pedro, Chile, from Salta, Argentina. The first is that once you go through the border post exiting Argentina you don’t officially arrive into Chile until you reach the passport control offices of San Pedro de Atacama. The other is that once you have [...]
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Stargazing in Chile
Blog: Two Backpackers - 22 October 2010
Travel in Chile doesn’t always go as planned, as our guest writer Linda Martin discovers… We’d hoped to visit San Pedro de Atacama on our first trip to Chile, detouring off the main road from Santiago to the border to see what this desert town has to offer. But while we were in the south [...]
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Snowboarding in the world’s driest desert. San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 27 July 2010
Arriving in San Pedro de Atacama feels like reaching the very end of the earth only to realise that everyone else has arrived before you. On the bus journey from Argentina we had seen tantalising glimpses of the other worldly landscape we were expecting from the region – huge stretches of chalky white ground; looming [...]
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San Pedro de Atacama To Arequipa – Long, But Nice And Easy
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 9 June 2010
So easy that I don’t even know if a post is necessary, but it seems to be a very popular route so I suppose it’s a good idea to map it out in case anyone needs it. From San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, you can get a night bus to Arica, up near the border. [...]
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San Pedro de Atacama - a brief visit to Chile
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 8 June 2010
Our salt flat tour concluded with a comfortable mini-van ride across the border in to Chile. From the seat behind, a booming voice with a Canadian accent excitedly announced the arrival of asphalt. His proclamation was met with a muted response from the passengers, which was understandable. Through one tour group or other we had all spent two and a half days crammed in the back of Land Cruisers traveling over rough terrain, but we knew what he meant.
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San Pedro De Atacama, Chile – Luxury At A Price, Definitely Worth It
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 7 June 2010
After three days in a jeep, no showers and no roads; after a month in Bolivia which is, let’s face it, a little less developed than other countries; the arrival into San Pedro de Atacama was akin to going from Kansas to Oz. I’m not saying there were munchkins or witches or that everything suddenly [...]
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Acclimatising in San Pedro De Atacama, Chile
Blog: Mood to Travel - 22 May 2010
Iglesia San Pedro [Enlarge]
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San Pedro De Atacama to Salta Argentina
Blog: Trip Down - 6 May 2010
After the rain finally stopped in Ollague on the Chilean-Bolivian border I left on a sunny morning for the drive through the Atacama Desert (one of the driest places on earth) to San Pedro De Atacama, Chile. San Pedro is an oasis in the desert that is quite overly touristy. Before arriving in town I [...]
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Discover Adventure in San Pedro de Atacama Chile
Blog: Two Backpackers - 15 April 2010
San Pedro de Atacama is an adventure town located in Chile’s Northern Salt Mountains and is an extreme desert environment. The landscape is very picturesque with snow capped mountains in the distance and desert valleys that glow orange when the sun sets. Tourists flock to San Pedro to see pink flamingos in the salt flat basin, [...]
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Velvet moments: travel photo of the week – Valle de la Luna
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 7 April 2010
Valley of the Moon, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Read the accompanying post ‘A desert full of wonders‘ See other Velvet moments: Bora Bora, French Polynesia Serengeti, Tanzania Sacred Water Temple, Bali, Indonesia Masaai Mara, Kenya Iguazu Falls, Brazil/Argentina Positano, Italy Buenos Aires, Argentina Seminyak, Indonesia Lang Tengah island, Malaysia Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina The Great Ocean Road, Australia Angkor Wat, Cambodia Laguna Chaxa, Chile
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Valley of Camera Death
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 22 October 2009
Unlike the transition between Peru & Bolivia, on entering Chile you could tell straight away you were in a very different country. For a start, the scenery changed dramatically – from the Bolivian Altiplano, to the Atacama desert. The town of San Pedro de Atacama, my first stop, is a dusty town of single story houses [...]
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15: "To the north, to the desert: Part 4"
Blog: Dispatches from the Provinces of Argentina - 10 September 2009
Lucy and I got up and went to a café. I got coffee and pancakes with manjar, which is the Chilean dulce de leche. In Chile the coffee is almost always Nescafé. Nobody seems to no why.
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11: "To the north, to the desert: Part 3"
Blog: Dispatches from the Provinces of Argentina - 9 August 2009
I got up at 8, showered, packed my bags, and walked to the terminal in Jujuy for my bus to Chile.
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The Spectacular Bus Ride from San Pedro de Atacama to Salta
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 3 August 2009
‘The Spectacular Bus Ride from San Pedro de Atacama to Salta’ (a page from my Travel Journal) “Hurry, hurry…,” the man said to me, “the bus is leaving in a few minutes”. I was sure I was going to miss my bus to Salta. I arrived at the travel agency, as instructed when I bought my ticket, [...]
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A desert full of wonders – San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 16 April 2009
A desert full of wonders – San Pedro de Atacama (a page from my Travel Journal) A very good friend of mine persuaded me to visit northern Chile. I was quite hesitant at first because it’s a desert region and I’m not a big fan of deserts! They’re very dry and extremely hot; elements which [...]
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