6 Blogs for San Pedro and the Atacama ©
6 Blogs for San Pedro and the Atacama

6 Blogs for San Pedro and the Atacama

A guidebook author who prices every excursion, a blogger who asks whether you should come at all, and the hundred-item inventory that lists everything else

San Pedro is a small town with an enormous hinterland, and the writing about it splits cleanly in two. Half of it is logistics — what a tour costs, whether you can drive yourself, how many days you need before the altitude stops hurting. The other half is the argument about whether the place is worth the effort, because a week of dawn departures and two-hour drives is not everyone's holiday. The blogs below cover both halves, and two of them are in Spanish or written by Chileans, which is not the norm for this part of the world.

What connects them is that none of them stops at the standard circuit. Between them they will take you to the ignimbrite columns on the Tara road, the cactus canyon at Guatín, the petroglyph fields north of town and the orchard gorge behind Toconao — a dozen places we added to this guide because these five writers and one guiding outfit had already been there.

Further Reading

6 Blogs for San Pedro and the Atacama

  1. 01 14 Incredible Things to Do in San Pedro de Atacama and the Atacama Desert worldlyadventurer.com · Steph Dyson The author of Moon Chile, and the only writer here who works out what every excursion costs and which of them you can reach in a rental car instead of a minibus. Prices in pesos and dollars, updated after a return visit in 2025.
  2. 02 26 Fun Things to Do in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile adventurouskate.com The one that asks whether you should come at all. It says plainly that the routine — drive two hours, photograph a thing, drive back — does not suit everyone, and it carries the most serious desert safety section of anything on this list.
  3. 03 A Local's Guide to San Pedro de Atacama, Chile goaskalocal.com · Marcela Torres Written by a Chilean journalist with a masters in ecotourism. It is the only guide that gives you direct contacts for the Lickan Antay community-run sites and explains the invierno altiplánico properly.
  4. 04 100+ Cosas que Hacer en San Pedro de Atacama: La Lista Definitiva vulcanoexpediciones.com A hundred things sorted into ten categories and counted properly — the most complete inventory of the area in any language, and the only place the Monjes de la Pacana, Cerro Quimal and the Guatín cactus canyon appear alongside the geysers. The volcano section is written by the guides who work those peaks.
  5. 05 San Pedro de Atacama Unique Things to Do (After the Three-Day Uyuni Tour) voyagescribe.com · Natalie Czarnota Written for the specific traveller who has just come overland from Bolivia and is tired of salt flats. It is the only post that takes desert fatigue seriously and suggests what to do about it.
  6. 06 Qué ver en San Pedro de Atacama en 2 días o más unaideaunviaje.com · Eva Abal In Spanish, by a writer who lived in Chile for months. The most realistic short-stay plan anywhere — it tells you what two days actually buys you and where the extra days go. Kept up to date.

These are other people’s blogs, out on the open web. We don’t run them and we don’t earn anything from the links — they’re here because they are good.