Casa Mazzetti

Twenty adobe rooms arranged around a central courtyard in San Pedro de Atacama's low-slung residential quarter, Casa Mazzetti keeps the desert vernacular intact — thick mud-brick walls that hold cool through the afternoon heat and open skies above the patio undimmed by signage or street lighting.

The address on Juntos Progresamos Mejor sits a short walk from the main Plaza de Armas, placing guests close to outfitter offices for Valle de la Luna excursions and the pre-Columbian Museo Atacameño without the noise of the pedestrian commercial strip.

At 2,400 metres elevation, nights drop sharply year-round; the courtyard position shelters guests from the altiplano wind that crosses the open streets after sundown.