{"id":6554,"date":"2017-01-19T11:29:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T18:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/?p=6554"},"modified":"2017-04-19T17:44:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T23:44:18","slug":"new-york-times-names-atacama-among-best-places-to-travel-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2017\/01\/19\/new-york-times-names-atacama-among-best-places-to-travel-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Names Atacama Among Best Places to Travel in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6556\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6556\" data-attachment-id=\"6556\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2017\/01\/19\/new-york-times-names-atacama-among-best-places-to-travel-in-2017\/atacama-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-1.jpg?fit=2048%2C1360&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Atacama 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-1.jpg?fit=640%2C425&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-6556 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-1.jpg?resize=640%2C425\" alt=\"Atacama Chile\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-1.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-1.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-1.jpg?resize=768%2C510&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C680&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-1.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-1.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atacama Desert, Chile<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6557\">Chile\u2019s Tourism Board just proudly announced that Chile\u2019s Atacama Desert was proclaimed one of the best places to travel in 2017 by the New York Times:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Atacama Desert was recently reviewed in The New York Times under the headline \u2018New ways to explore the world\u00b4s highest desert\u2019, highlighting it as one of the 52 getaways you can\u00b4t miss this year 2017. Prepared annually for the travel section of the New York Times, the Atacama Desert was ranked second this year, making it a highly visible and anticipated destination in the world of tourism.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6559\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2017\/01\/19\/new-york-times-names-atacama-among-best-places-to-travel-in-2017\/atacama-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-4.jpg?fit=1024%2C681&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,681\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Atacama 4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-4.jpg?fit=640%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6559\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-4.jpg?resize=640%2C426\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-4.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-4.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-4.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The list, which Canada tops at #1, highlights the Atacama desert and its clear skies. Unique in the entire world, these crystal-clear skies allow easy gazing at the stars\u2014besides providing a great attraction for adventure lovers. Landscapes of dunes sculpted by wind and kaleidoscopic lakes of salt amaze even more from above, in a hot air balloon tour. The excursion is offered regularly since August 2016.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6560\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6560\" data-attachment-id=\"6560\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2017\/01\/19\/new-york-times-names-atacama-among-best-places-to-travel-in-2017\/atacama-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-5.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,683\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Atacama 5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-5.jpg?fit=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-6560 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-5.jpg?resize=640%2C427\" alt=\"Atacama\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-5.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-5.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-5.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atacama Desert, Chile<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Atacama Desert is one of the destinations attracting the greatest numbers of tourists to Chile. It is considered to be one of the driest deserts on the planet and provides an authentic natural experience where you can enjoy more than 375 attractions, among them including the Atacama Salt Flat and the El Tatio Geisers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6557\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6557\" data-attachment-id=\"6557\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2017\/01\/19\/new-york-times-names-atacama-among-best-places-to-travel-in-2017\/atacama-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-2.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1365\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Atacama 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-2.jpg?fit=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-6557 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-2.jpg?resize=640%2C427\" alt=\"Atacama\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-2.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-2.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-2.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-2.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-2.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atacama Desert, Chile<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From Death Valley you can see the most remarkable parts of the Salt Mountain Range, which has been sighted as a point of interest by not only NASA but the film industry as well. In recent years several movies and television series have been filmed there including the Motorcycle Diaries (2004), based on the travel journals of Che Guevara; and Quantum of Solace (2008), from the James Bond series.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6558\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6558\" data-attachment-id=\"6558\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2017\/01\/19\/new-york-times-names-atacama-among-best-places-to-travel-in-2017\/atacama-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-3.jpg?fit=950%2C634&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"950,634\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Cristina Harboe T&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D600&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1396985766&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Cristina Harboe T&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;26&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.2&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Atacama 3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-3.jpg?fit=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-6558 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-3.jpg?resize=640%2C427\" alt=\"Atacama\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-3.jpg?w=950&amp;ssl=1 950w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-3.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Atacama-3.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atacama Desert, Chile<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Want to plan your next 2017 adventure? Check out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/chile\/overview.php?trip=4-day-Wonders-of-Atacama\">4-Day Wonders of Atacama<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/chile\/overview.php?trip=4-day-San-Pedro-de-Atacama,-Geysers,-and-Salt-Flats\">4-Day San Pedro de Atacama, Geysers, and Salt Flats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or contact us directly and plan your own custom trip!<\/p>\n<p>Your friendly Chile expert,<\/p>\n<p>Gretchen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chile\u2019s Tourism Board just proudly announced that Chile\u2019s Atacama Desert was proclaimed one of the best places to travel in 2017 by the New York Times: \u201cThe Atacama Desert was recently reviewed in The New York Times under the headline &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2017\/01\/19\/new-york-times-names-atacama-among-best-places-to-travel-in-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[268,355,257,356,354,338],"class_list":["post-6554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chile","category-news","tag-atacama","tag-best-places-to-travel","tag-chile","tag-new-york-times","tag-news","tag-south-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xxsg-1HI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6561,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554\/revisions\/6561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}