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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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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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The one where Chile and I reconciled ...
Blog: Pasándolo Chancho - 4 October 2010
So Santiago querido and I had our ups and downs.But now sitting in a far-away country (in fact, about as far away as you can get), and looking back on the place like past relationship, I'm feeling a little sorry that I harped on about its bad points, badmouthing it to all and sundry. Because just like a past relationship, once you get some distance (about 10,000 km seems to do the trick), you can actually revisit those good moments and see them for what they were - unique and intense and character building.
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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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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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