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ABOUT TIERRA ATACAMA - in their own words:

Tierra Atacama is a boutique hotel on the edge of San Pedro de Atacama. It was created by the Purcell family, long time owners and operators of the Portillo Ski Resort and Hotel, famous in Chile for its excellent skiing, food and warm hospitality. Like Portillo, Tierra Atacama provides guest experiences that combine outdoor adventure and sports with indoor comforts, hospitality and service.

The architecture, interiors, grounds and spa of Tierra Atacama were designed by Chilean professionals with an aim to preserving local cultural influences while also creating a place that speaks to guests, saying… relax, enjoy, share tales of your day’s adventure, sit back, laugh with friends, take a nap, savour your dinner and wine, wonder at the stars, and fill yourself with the awesome beauty of this unusual part of the earth.

The Uma Spa at Tierra Atacama offers many services for your pleasure and to help you fully rejuvenate during your Chilean vacation.

ACCOMMODATIONS: click here for complete details
Tierra Atacama's 32 rooms all have private terraces and views of the Licancabur volcano. The interior decoration is casually elegant in the neo-minimal style. Our decorators scoured local villages looking for the unique hand-made textiles and crafts to add authentic desert cultural pieces to each room.

AMBIANCE:
At Tierra Atacama we invite our guests to gather in our living room, library or bar, or perhaps outside around the swimming pool, in the gardens or on the terrace. Our “living room” ambiance is casual and friendly, we want our guests to be comfortable in our common areas just as if they were in their own homes.

Before and after dinner the bar is a meeting place for old and new friends. If you haven’t been to Chile before, be sure to try Chile’s signature cocktail the pisco sour, or taste the Chilean wines by the glass or bottle.

For romantic or contemplative get-aways while staying on the hotel grounds, find one of the seats by one of the terrace firepits, or a chaise lounge next to the pool, or one of the outdoor canopied beds. Take a siesta or watch the brilliant stars, bask in peace and wonder.

THE GARDENS:
The grounds of Tierra Atacama Hotel and Spa were designed by a renowned Chilean landscape artist, Teresa Moller. She preserved original ancient algarrobo and chaņar trees on the site, enhanced the very old irrigation canals and renovated the adobe walls which had been abandoned.

She designated certain areas for the cultivation of native species and other areas for new species that would adapt to the climate. There is a small orchard, a vegetable garden and a medicinal herb garden as well as several fields of alfalfa and other crops.

The grounds include special areas for sitting and relaxing and simply enjoying the peace of the area, the nature and the wonderful views.

RESTAURANT:
At Tierra Atacama our chef creates wonderful meals using healthy fresh ingredients of the area, such as quinoa, Andean potatoes and fresh herbs. We source the best beef and Chilean lamb, the freshest fish and seafood, the best of the seasonal fruits and vegetables, including from our own garden. Chile is a wonderful country for food with its long Pacific Ocean coast and its many excellent climatic zones for agriculture.

Our menus feature traditional Chilean and Andean dishes, which tend to be light and healthy. We also offer vegetarian dishes, as well as international cuisine. Please enjoy our wine menu which is carefully selected to allow guests to taste the best wines of Chile, both little known vintages and the well-known Chilean labels.

ADVENTURE SPA:
Tierra Atacama Hotel and Spa has an adventure-spa philosophy. We believe our guests want to experience the outdoors actively and adventurously and then be welcomed back to the hotel with a variety of relaxing options ranging from a simple nap to one of our professional spa services. The feeling of well-being is the reward… to enjoy washing the dirt off after a good hike, while thinking that the massage, pool, yoga or cocktail will be the enjoyable end of a very good day.

Those who want to skip the daily excursions can look for inner peace at the hotel… spend time in the Spa, the swimming pool, the library or choose tranquillity by stretching out on an outdoor bed, curling up with a book on the living room sofa, or closing your eyes in the privacy of your own room or terrace.

We’ll make sure your stay is as active or as peaceful as you decide.

Get dirty | Get clean | Get rested | Have fun | Be happy

SPA FACILITIES:
Uma is the Aymara word for water. Water is a source of life, of revitalization. We hope that our Uma Spa at Tierra Atacama will provide you with the revitalization, personal luxury and rejuvenation you seek.

Our Uma hostess will welcome you with slippers and robes and show you to the dressing areas. There is an outdoor swimming pool, a jacuzzi and an indoor heated pool. The indoor pool has water jets, beds of bubbles and other playful features.

The Uma steam room or Turkish bath is lovely after a day in the dry air of the desert, and our dry Finnish sauna wipes away stress as it warms the muscles. The tranquil rooms for massages, facials and body treatments are quiet and inviting. We’ve also set aside pretty spaces for meditative relaxation where rica rica herbal tea and cold cucumber water are served. The light comes in the windows at just the right quantity and with a wonderful view of the land outside.

• TREATMENTS: After touring the Altiplano it will feel good to restore and relax your body. We encourage you to indulge yourself in the pleasure at our Uma Spa. You’ll find a full menu of Uma massages, aromatherapy, body wraps and scrubs, stone treatments, and either stimulating or relaxing soaks. We can recommend Spa circuits and routines using the pools, sauna, steam, bath and rest. Our treatment rooms are cocoons with candles, light music and aromatherapy oils. Our facials and manicures are the finishing details you need to feel luxuriously pampered.
• RELAXATION: Not everyone wants to go on excursion every morning or afternoon so as an alternative we offer the inner peace alternative that is self-determined time off at the hotel. You choose your own program for relaxing.Our outdoor yoga platform is there for those who wish to practice yoga in open air with the atacameņan views all around. Our grounds feature nice walks and we have beds placed about the garden to give you outdoor resting spots. Our library has good vacation reads and our chaise lounges by the pool are designed for vacation reading, the best way to read a book by far!
  After your massage or facial, or other Spa treatment, ask us to prepare a private bath for you. Pick milk baths with roses or mint, bath with desert herbs, or a hydrating bath of cacao and chocolate. As your inner peace quotient goes up, let your body sink into your bed or the living room sofa for life’s truest luxury… a nap

ADVENTURES & ACTIVITIES - Click here for complete details and map

• Adventures on 4 wheels

• Walking & hiking
• Biking
• Cultural & wildlife
• Horse back riding
• Volcano climbing
• Rock climbing