Location: San Pedro de Atacama
Top Things to do in San Pedro de Atacama
Top Restaurants in San Pedro de Atacama
10 Sights & Landmarks in San Pedro de Atacama That You Shouldn't Miss
Looking for an unusual and beautiful landscape? Sandstone canyons, flamingo-dotted salt flats, steaming geysers, hot springs, volcanic peaks and alien-looking rock formations are on offer all around San Pedro de Atacama. Hiking, biking and horseback riding are the preferred means of exploration. Death Valley here is surprisingly great for picnics.
Restaurants in San Pedro de Atacama
1. Mirador de Kari, Piedra del Coyote
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 1,720 reviews
Reviewed By 716sachink - Plainview, United States
This place offers fabulous sunset viewing in the Atacama desert. This place could be visited as an extended part of the Moon Valley tour. It is in the midst of beautiful natural surroundings offering great photo opportunities. Certainly would very highly recommend visiting here prior to sunset.
2. ALMA Observatory
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 204 reviews
Reviewed By 56romanl - Stuttgart, Germany
It was very interesting to learn how such an observatory is operated. We also had the chance to see a dish in maintenance.
3. Tunel
4. Valle de Marte / Valle de la Muerte
5. Tropico de Capricornio
6. Iglesia de San Pedro de Atacama
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 1,745 reviews
Reviewed By 716sachink - Plainview, United States
This church is located very close to the main square of San Pedro De Atacama. It is an old church with a very nice look. Certainly worth visiting for it’s antiquity.
7. Pukara de Quitor
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 1,247 reviews
Reviewed By franwilliams10 - Santiago, Chile
This could have been a really uninteresting use of an afternoon, but we were not expecting the tremendous atmosphere of this place: not just the walk up to the very top of the site which affords the most wonderful views over the entire valley - really unexpected, nor the very well laid-out signage and information boards which were really good, not even the pleasure of being at a site run by indigenous locals which really brought home that we were somewhere really unique. What was most stunning about the place was the fact that these houses looked like they could have been abandoned just a really short time previously, and -in fact- it we'd been able to look inside them we might have found an old crock, or a shoelace or a button or some such evidence of recent habitation. It was quite extraordinary, we'd definitely go again. Not to mention that it's an easy walk or bike ride from San Pedro. Fabulous.
8. Aldea de Tulor
9. Yerbas Buenas Petroglyphs
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 248 reviews
Reviewed By hakimstark - Warsaw, Poland
Another kind of oasis - a chance to see some green in the Atacama desert; great rock formations; opportunity to see (and taste if you dare) some indigenous plants; a bit of history lesson; unique petroglyphs; and tons of llamas ;)
10. Machuca
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 915 reviews
Reviewed By 716sachink - Plainview, United States
Machuca is a small village with less than 50 inhabitants. Visited same on my way back from El Tatio Geyser field towards San Pedro De Atacama. This village is famous for selling barbecued lama meat and some delicious freshly made empanadas. Certainly a unique village and would very highly recommend visiting same to any traveler in the Atacama region.
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