Luxury Hotels In San Pedro De Atacama

Choose A Town Or Outlying Oasis Base

Awasi Atacama is at Tocopilla 551 in San Pedro de Atacama. Choose this town address when meals and walks around the settlement are part of the holiday, alongside trips into the wider desert.

Nayara Alto Atacama occupies an oasis outside San Pedro, at Camino Pukará. It gives the stay a base beyond the town streets. The choice is between returning to the settlement and spending more of the stay in an outlying oasis setting; the desert valleys and highland landscapes remain separate excursions.

Explore Valle De La Luna’s Salt Landscape

The Valle de la Luna gives geological forms and changing light a central role. Within the Cordillera de la Sal, sedimentary rock contains layers of salt and gypsum. Dunes, craters and sharp ridges give the valley its distinct landforms, with wind continuing to shape the exposed terrain. The excursion is a close introduction to the desert’s mineral landscape, separate from the water and volcanic environments of the wider highlands.

Spend Time In The Oasis Town

San Pedro’s church stands beside the town plaza. Its compact adobe walls and pitched roof belong to an Andean colonial building tradition, with local materials central to the construction. Algarrobo, chañar and cactus wood were used alongside mud-and-straw plaster. A town visit brings that building history into the desert stay, on the smaller scale of a square and its surrounding settlement.

The oasis has a pre-Columbian Atacameño history as well as the later church. Its inhabited streets provide the place for a local meal and time around the plaza, while the regional excursions lead into the desert beyond.

Our Chile destination guide places this desert-and-oasis stay within a wider journey.