Calama and its surroundings:
This area is one of the few sites in the world where archeological wealth and overabundant natural expressions converge. The area comprises the Loa river basin, and is surrounded by a multiple villages of pre-Hispanic origin. Being near to Pampa del Tamarugal, to Salar de Atacama, and to San Pedro de Atacama, it s also a natural access to the Bolivian Altiplano.

Chuquicamata:
At 16 km from the Hotel, Chuquicamata stand out for being a modern mining town where one can observe the operations in the largest open-pit copper mine in the world.

Pre- Columbian Villages:
Chiu-Chiu, located at 40 km from the Hotel, mostly natives habit it. In this village is the Church of San Francisco, the most beautiful Church in the region built a little earlier than 1675, using sun-dried clay bricks.

In its neighborhood: Pukará de Lasana, a fortress village and the best-preserved ruins of the Atacama culture. Caspana, a fertile valley at 2,900 meters a.s.I., a village whose architecture make use of liparita rock and clay roofs. It stands out for its terrace cultivation system. Toconce, a pre-Hispanic village, a 3,200 meters a.s.I., between rock cliffs, shows all the houses made of rocks along its main irrigation canal. Pukará de Turi, the larges fortress village in the Atacama Mountains, was built during the 12th century on an almost flat platform.

Archeology:
San Pedro de Atacama, located at 105 kilometers from the Hotel, the highway crossing a spectacular desert landscape, including Cordilera de Domeyko, Llano de la Paciencia, and Cordillera de la Sal. It stands out for being a village that shelters the largest possessions of pre- Columbian objects founded in the area, thus being awarded the title of Archeological Capital of Chile.

Archeological Museum Gustavo Le Paige:
Visited by over 2,000 people per month (70 percent foreigners). It comprises an exhibition hall, a laboratory, a research room, a library, document room and storerooms. More than 380,000 pieces are kept there, dating from the origins of culture, about 11,000 years ago and up to the arrival of Spanish conquerors during the 16th century, including around 600 small boards intended for hallucinating drugs, the largest collection of its kind, as well as mummies in an excellent preservation state.

Excursions:
Valle de la Luna, located at 95 kilometers from the Hotel; it's a depression measuring 500 meters diameter, a saline soil surrounded by impressing hills with sharp-edged peaks which show an intense transformation of the earth surface, no doubt a beautiful geological sight.

Salar de Atacama, located at 168 kilometers from the Hotel, is a depression or basin with no water draining, measuring 3,000 square kilometers and at 2,000 meters above sea level. The air, being almost absolutely dry, enables to see the whole extension of the "Salar" from one border to other.

Laguna Chaxa, with salt crusts and lagoons with surface salt in its formation process, stands out for its unusual wildlife including lizards, and being also habited by parinas and pink flamingos, showing a unique spectacle.

Toconao, a village with interesting buildings made of local liparite rock, stands out for its narrow tourist streets and stone handicraft, specially reflected in the manufacture of the classical church towers of the regions.

Geisers del Tatio, located at 121 kilometers from the Hotel, is a geothermic field surrounded by high peaks, where violent spouts of water steam rise at dawn from numerous holes. It is also stands out for its boiling water wells, surrounded by mineral salts bearing wonderful colors.