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			Atacama: land a time
			Between the Pacific Ocean and the Cordillera de los Andes , Atacama is an immense extension of land and mystery. Desert and oasis have been moments of repose and change for pre-Columbian Andean cultures of South of America. The remains of their past are landmarks in the area; their present sharing with other cultures in the maintenance of their traditions, gives life to small villages. Cordilleras, volcanoes, salt flats and hot springs add splendor to culture.		The Atacama culture had an important agricultural development and produced particularly beautiful textiles and metallurgy. Its lands were crossways of commercial routes between peoples from Bolivia , Argentina and the Pacific coast. In Atacama it is possible to appreciate multiple features of this history, expressed in archeological monuments, cemeteries, churches and villages. Its traditions still live in religious festivities, in its crafts and in the local folklore.


			a journey for the soul
			The Atacama oases, in the middle of the driest desert in the world, have a peculiarity that makes them unique: they are situated at 2,500 meters above the sea level. For this reason they have a pleasant year-round climate, and being in such a location, light, transparency and air, takes on a special character. All that is seen is diaphanous and different. And thus, the outlandish geography that surrounds the place with volcanoes, salt flats and altitude wetlands, acquire its unparalled appeal. But the oasis of San Pedro is simply an introduction. It is that last area where human life is still possible; where a visitor can still be harboured. Once you leave San Pedro towards the altiplanos and the volcanoes, you can truly perceive remoteness, where one experiences an entirely different world, an untamed place far from civilization as we know it.		The program at explora EN ATACAMA , with its base at the Hotel de Larache in the oasis of San Pedro, puts visitors in the middle of a fantasy where exploration, the leaving and returning, acquires a shape of its own. The altiplano is more a metaphor than a geographical entity. More than a physical exploration, the trip through the altiplano is a spiritual exploration inside oneself in a unearthly world. The altiplano shows that behind the complexity of life there exists a simplicity that leads us to “reconsider our place within the grand scheme of things”. And that is what makes the trip to Atacama one of the most magnificent things that one can ever be able to realize.

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