San Pedro de Atacama is the third most visited place in Chile. It is also home to a growing astronomical activity.

You can stay in San Pedro, there are many hotels there (see www.sanpedroatacama.com). Many restaurants, many touristic agencies. You can use the touristic services of these agencies to explore around San Pedro. We recommend nevertheless to rent you own vehicle and explore by yourself. We can help you giving you GPS coordinates of the most beautiful places in San Pedro. We tend to have a mass tourism developing here, so better visit for example the Moon Valley at sunrise than at sunset, or during full moon night.

There are many places to visit around San Pedro de Atacama :

- The Moon Valley

- The Atacama salt flat

- Altiplanic lagoons

- The Tatio geysers

- The Cejar and Tebinquinche lagoons

- The Monturaqui impact crater

- Tour to Bolivia's Uyuni salt flat, with trips getting back to San Pedro, or continuing onto Titicaca Lake or Macchu Picchu in Peru.

- Salta in Argentina

To be completed with links and images. Really the area is a beautiful place... A GPS is recommended if you travel alone, eventhough the most touristic destinations are easy to find (follow the main track...).

Start going on Google Earth at 68°10'43.47"W and 22°57'13.42"S (the current image seems to be from 2004 or so when the lodges were being built, no swimming pool yet)

Then zoom out... At an altitude of 7km, you see the oasis of Solor. At an altitude of 20km, you see San Pedro de Atacama and its different oasis. At about 60km of altitude, you start to see on the south the Cejar lagoons. The Moon Valley is on the east. On the upper right part of the screen appears the Licancabur Volcano. Give you a small trip in the Andes.