"Until recently, the only hotel filling the luxury-in-the-Atacama niche was Germán del Sol’s Explora—understandable since most craggy edge-of-the-world desert moonscapes haven’t got even one upscale adventure hotel. Now, though, there’s competition, and some of the finest comes in the form of Awasi, a slightly more modest but hardly less impressive lodging, in the riverside town of San Pedro de Atacama." - Tablet Hotels