The Atacama Desert
Atacama Desert is one of the driest places known on Earth. It's a lunar landscape filled with lakes, lagoons, geysers, and enormous volcanoes.
San Pedro de Atacama
San Pedro de Atacama is a town set on an arid high plateau in the Andes mountains of northeastern Chile. Its dramatic surrouding landscape incorporates desert, salt flats, volcanoes, geysers and hot springs. The Valle de la Luna in the nearby Los Flamencos National Reserve is a lunarlike depression with unusual rock formations, a huge sand dune and pink-streaked mountains.
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San Pedro de Atacama, a small oasis town with lively markets, dusty streets and straw-and adobe homes, has many bars as well as restaurants. There are also some exceptional desert lodges. The stunning landscapes of Copiapo, Valle de Elqui and Valle de Elqui can be found a few hundred kilometers south. They are also spectacular but remain remarkably uncrowded. Atacama is a great place to stargaze and watch sunsets due to its low humidity and clear skies.
Day tours take you to the Tatio geysers, the stunning lagoons that glow pink from flamingos, and the Licancabur Volcano which lies at Chile's border to Bolivia. This trip can be combined with cross-Andes expeditions to Bolivia and northern Argentina or to a stunning new tented luxury camp in the Chilean Pacific.
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