Hostel San Pedro

Catamarca & La Rioja


This is a well-done, family-owned hostel, with tidy dorms and double rooms set around an attractive courtyard on Fiambalá's main drag. The owners are a wealth of local intel, and rent sand boards and can arrange excursions to the nearby sand dunes.


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