Hotel de Larache is cobbled together from 20 small farming plots, drawing inspiration from the traditional estancias of northern Chile. Set in the oasis of San Pedro within the Atacama Desert, it offers guests the opportunity to explore the region’s unique landscape. 105 km from Calama in the Atacama Desert. This hotel, very shortly after its opening was chosen amongst the 100 best hotels in the world!

Hotel de Larache has 52 luxury spacious rooms with Jacuzzi, sitting rooms and ample natural light with wood and tile accents and plush linens. Far superior in style, these airy rooms afford about 50% more space.

Hotel Amenities: Outdoor pool and sauna, Massage services, Dining room with exquisite cuisine, Private stables, Gift shop, Library with books and maps, Laundry, Internet facilities. Meeting room for 70 persons.

Open Bar. Including alcoholic drinks and a wide selection of wines. 

Every day different excursions are offered: by bike, on foot, on horseback or in a group of max. There are few places on earth, where a dream of luxury and adventure will come true!

The two thousand square kilometres Atacama Desert, in northern Chile, is one of the most arid in the world. Some 10 km away from San Pedro, Valle de Luna should not be missed. As the sun sinks below the horizon, experience  wonder f the area and its close resemblance to the the lunar landscape.

One interesting area with stones and sand formations that per millenia the floods and the winds have given it a series of colors and texture to the desert.

It contrasts with the eerily silent landscape of the nearby Valley of the Moon with its tiny but beautiful salt ponds and the backdrop of snow-capped volcanoes.

It is a small depression of salt ground, 1,650 feet (500 m) in diameter, that exhibits odd sculptural shapes.

You can also walk to the top of a little mountain to watch the amazing sunset and the colors of the Atacama desert.

In fact, Moon Valley is a place of peace. Hot but calm and very quiet!

Hotels in tree houses are not a new concept, but The Magic Mountain Hotel is not just another hotel. Located within the Huilo Huilo Private Natural Reserve, Chile, it is without a doubt one of most unique hotels in South America. This exclusive lodge is shaped like a volcano and complete with every modern comfort.

The hotel is decorated in a natural and cozy mountain style with local wood and stone. Windows, walls, doors and stairs are all carved out of the local rustic woods. Large windows of the hotel add warm tones to the wood.  Each nine room is named for a different local species of bird and all of them have private well-equipped bathrooms.

The major attraction here is hot Tubs in the Forest, made of huge trunks of trees. They are filled with hot water and are set on a platform overlooking the forest. This is really a place to take a very good glass wine and relax.
The hotel facilities include: a restaurant with local specialties, bar, sauna, mini-golf court and internet access. Mountain Area’s Activities: hiking, trekking, horseback riding, rafting and mountain biking.

Example price at double rooms:
December / March: CLP 87,000
September / November: CLP 79,000
April / August: CLP 66,000

1 CLP (Chilean Peso) = 0.00177 USD (American Dollar)

It is not possible to get to Easter Island, without traveling a long distance. For example if you live in New York City you will travel to Santiago, Chile (almost 12 hours), probably you should rest a day and then catching another jet plane 5 hours into the Pacific to reach your goal. The adventure trip will be an hour shorter if you live in New Zealand, but don’t count on it.

Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian triangle. The island is a special territory of Chile.

Easter Island (10 miles by 15 miles) was formed eons ago by three massive volcanoes rising from the sea. Most of the island is strewn with stone, with jagged cliffs for a coastline. The island is also strewn with over 800 gigantic and breathtaking statues averaging over 20 feet high. Only a relative few of these are upright and in original placement, but many of the rest can be seen and visited, half buried or prone. The experience is very much like visiting a fiction we have not imagined.

The island was settled — probably about A.D. 700.

There are several hundred free-roaming horses on the island, families mostly, and they often share the roads with you but are thoughtful in moving aside. There are 10 or 12 hotels, the most desirable one being the Hotel O’TAI, with lovely gardens, comfortable rooms, a pool, good breakfast, a friendly staff and reasonable rates. The people who live on Easter Island are friendly and often very beautiful.

This glass salon has the functionality of a reading room and exhibition space in the Lounge Founders of the National Library in Chile. The salon is surrounded by silkscreen chosen by the Library.

The silkscreen has two sides of the element, with text that enable its reading on both sides, which gives a more ambiguous character as a fabric.

The glass salon is divided into two areas, exhibition space and reading space. This generates into the visitor a better predisposition before accessing the study area.

The project is fantastic because maintains the morphology of the living room in the Library. Also is cultural and gives to the students cosy, warm place with great lighting atmosphere, where to spend their studies and researches.

The Arrebol Patagonia Hotel is located in the forest area of Puerto Varas, Chile just on the south-east border of Llanquihue Lake. The area is amazing full with native trees, lagoons, ravines and little rivers.

 

The hotel is built on a big slope and has the best view of the city, lake and horizon. The two principal materials are steel and reinforced concrete. The windows are made of Rauli (native tree), but the most innovative detail is the heating that works with geo thermic energy.

 

The hotel is composed by elements from the region, that’s why you may see a wooden paneling outside and inside the building.

 

Arrebol Patagonia Hotel is a peaceful place, where tourists could have the chance for total relaxation. The hotel offers 7 chill-zones with beautiful greenery and music for the soul.

 

Each room is stylish decorated with soft colors, comfortable furniture and of course latest technology from iPod shuffle to jazz music in your bathroom.

 

One of the coolest activities in the world to refresh oneself is to bath in a hot spring into the wild. This will happened if you plan a trip to the Geometric Hot Springs, which are sixty springs of pure hot thermal water. They are located in the middle of native forests of the Villarrica National Park in Chile.

To be easy to bath with pleasure in the midst of wild nature, 17 pools were created with red wooden paths and ramp. For sure you won’t trip, while walking to dive into springs. Neither would you slip because the path is heated with thermal water, that runs under it, prepares you for the ‘’big jump’’!

Around these springs, there’s meeting place (‘’quincho’’) built up of pure wood, where you can sit and chat with your friends after a refreshing bath.

The experience to enjoy such a bath lets you to leave all worries and enjoy the pleasure of the bath or to observe the nature.

This is an incredible place in one an incredible country – Chile!

Explora Hotel in Atacama, Chile invites travelers to make a life pause. This wondering hotel offers to visitors to go out and experience its natural and cultural richness and return every evening back to comfort.

Atacama or San Pedro de Atacama is 34,000 acres cultivated oasis, inhabited for more than two thousand years. The hotel takes some distance from existing settlements. It also has pre-Colombian style of the structures- a town without the use of streets.

 The hotel buildings are a sequence of interior and exterior places, where the public and the private are not very well defined.

Guest rooms are raised 3’over the ground level, to have a view of the whole oasis, the mountains and the horizons beyond. The interior of the hotel is very soft and gives a rest to the eyes after a long day spent in the sunshine. The broken lines and forms of the structures give life to things.

 To temperate the place, water runs through places and terraces, while breeze cools down in the void spaces.

This is a natural hotel, which is attracted by the movement of light like ocean waves lead to nowhere.

Patagonia is a geographical region of South America. Mostly located in Argentina and partly in Chile. Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park is one of the destinations that draws trekkers to Patagonia.

Tourism in torres del Paine has raised in the recent years with North Americans. A tour group from the Exploralodge in the park.

Hikers being transferred to a boat on Lago Grey. This is the only one place with glaceries accessible in Patagonia.

Guanacos in Torres del Paine National Park.

A variaion of a lady’s slipper on the trail.

Remota is a spectacular structure situated in Puerto Natales, an old fishing town in Patagonia, which is the latest hotel project from the Chilean green architect Germàn del Sol. It is all about minimizing the footprint, minimizing the silhouette, maximizing the impact of the place rather than the building.

 

Remota is a hotel made from wood, asphalt, slate and a bit like a bunker, albeit a stylized one. Interiors, however, are less severe, and not at all bunker-like; plenty of rich unfinished wood, plenty of organic curves and imperfections. The views aren’t quite sublime — the building’s low profile sees to that — but the windows allowed roomsto be bath in a steep-angled Patagonian sunshine.

The breathtaking Chile’s landscapes are meant to be enjoyed from outdoors. Every kind of excursions are available, from casual walkabouts to more rigorous tours, and at the end of the day you can sink back into what is as much a luxury hotel as it is an eco-lodge, complete with sauna, infinity pool, jacuzzi, massage, and a restaurant serving local channel and ocean fish, local farmers’ produce, and an assortment of Chilean wines.

You may remember Felipe Assadi and Francisca Rulido from a post before couple of weeks ago. Both Chile’s architects didn’t provide much information about this lovely project ‘ Guthrie House‘ but they are ensured some nice pictures of the house.

Some interesting feature about the Guthrie House is that it is build in the ground concrete structure on a hill and it looks like a house that is at one with the landscape, blending in to its beautiful surroundings. The view is amazing, especially if you bring up to the roof, you are going to be surrounded by stunning hills.

The house from inside reminds of a cave, but a bit more lighter , because of several walls that are covered with glass. As you can see from the pictures, the furniture is very stylish, minimal and extraordinary.

Indigo Hotel is situated on the sea front of Puerto Natales, a historical town in Patagonia, Chile, and access point to Torres del Paine National Park.

Puerto Natales offers the most beautiful landscape in whole World. The amazing mountains and the sea offer a spectacular surprise, and forever changing with the climate of Patagonia. From the sea you can hear every sound from the birds, the wind playing and murmur of the black necked swans that bathe in the cold waters.

According to all these stunning views the hotel offers also some funny sport activities: navigation to the Glacier Serrano and Snowdrifts, horse ridding through Patagonia, kayak to the Fiord. There are 23 rooms and 6 suites in the hotel decorated with the luxury of all details and comforts. ‘Indigo‘ alsoinclude restaurand & lounge bar, spa, souvenir shop, wifi internet, laundry service, travel agency.

Spa is situated in the attic of the building and include 3 outside jacuzzis, good sauna, delicious massage from the best hands therapists.

The restaurant cuisine is wonderful and delicious, especially those foods which are brought from the sea. Incredible location, a few meters from the coast of the fjord, directly facing the glaciers and mountains, ensures that every meal will be enjoyed with a view of beauty.

Park Theater is located in Santiago, Chile. The marvellous design of the theatre is owes on the greatest architect Felipe Assadi. He decide to located the theatre in the fourth basement of a mall in the city of Santiago. The space which was used for the project is a 50 by 12 base meters per 8 meters height parallelepiped.

The Park Theater was represent in only one tier with 250 seats that determines two levels: the first one where the foyer, toilets and dictaborate room are located, besides a cafeteria; the lower level, where the stage is. One interesting fact is that under the tier of seats are located the changing and actors room and one 200 square meters rehearsal room.

The ceiling and the walls were recovered with sheathing of lines of Bolivian cedar, among which lighting was integrated placed in order to disrupt the monotony of the cedar. It is a best cultural palce which gaves to people a lot of feelings and harmony in their vital spark.

This is a superb, undreamed, very discriminating house. The house is created by Felipe Assadi and Francisca Pulido. The idea and design of this amazing house were the construction of a guests house and house of games.

In the house there’re two bedrooms, each one with bathroom, one kitchen/bar and a visits bathroom, plus a living area, a pool table and a games table.

The house is situated in Calera de Tango, commune of Chile and have a maximum area of 100 square metres.

One interesting feature of ‘20×20′ is that the house is raised over piles at 80sm height over the natural land.The house is round of a glass volume, through which is possible to follow the trees, while the house was not in use. For the remaining walls the choice was a black colour that is easily absorbed within its context. So nature and time were left in charge of limiting the space contained by the crystal box.

This house have a square ground plan. A the centre of the house was placed the games room and to the west, protected by a one-metre thick blind wall the outdoors dining room, in a yard that crosses the full volume from South to North, direction of the predominant winds that air the house in summer.

The kitchen, bar and visits bathroom were arranged in a core that forms a wall-furniture that additionally splits the dormitories from the living room.