San Pedro de Atacama was the first stop in Chile after my very cold high altitude
Andes Crossing. It's a very touristy little town of about 10,000 people
and a hub for adventure and outdoor desert sports, like mountain biking and
sand surfing. The rest of the page is from Antofagasta, where I took a
lot of pictures because it just seemed like an interesting place, especially
because it's in the Atacama Desert region but in most ways it seems like a
regular large city with lots of things to see.
Click on the image and eat ceviche!
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Horsie riding in San Pedro de Atacama.
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Funky old church, similar to the one in Susques.
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Church again.
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Statue of the guy who founded the little museum in the centro.
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Atacama, dry and barron.
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Still dry and barron.
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Unique restaurant near the centro where this large wood burning oven greets you at the door.
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Calama town square, this is the only shot I included from Calama. It was a decent place to stop and rest but there wasn't much to see.
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Geoglyph about 35 miles west of Antofagasta. I don't know if this one is real or a replica because it looks too perfect.
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Fishing port at Antofagasta.
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Brightly colored cemetery in the middle of the city, closeups will be on the next page of photos.
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A patient audience waits for scraps.
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Antofagasta is also a large shipping port.
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More fishing boats, I think they're seigners.
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The other side of the port is for the fun boats, and one of the two malls in town.
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Pelicans are everywhere on the shoreline.
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More boats.
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Skyline to the south.
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The buzzards are also plentiful on the coast.
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Fish market, right next to the port area.
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Inside the market.
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Ceviche!
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More ceviche! It's best to get it at the market because it's always super fresh.
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Making ceviche?
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Lucia holds up a corvina, my favorite type of ceviche.
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Getting tired of ceviche yet? Not me!
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Unique mural outside of fish market.
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Veggies on the other side of the street from fish market.
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Same place.
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Another angle of the port.
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Peace and love in the Atacama.
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Look kids, Big Ben!
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Fountain, Big Ben and Cathedral.
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England donated this Big Ben replica in 1910 to commemorate 100 years of Chilean independence.
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