During a 04-day stay, you will enjoy the magic of the Elqui Valley, renowned for its vineyards, pisco production, and charming villages surrounded by mountains, together with the unique experience of visiting Llanos de Challe National Park, where, between August and October in years of unusual rainfall, the Blooming Desert transforms the arid landscape into a vibrant natural spectacle.

Itinerary
Map

Day 1: Arrival day

We will be waiting for you at La Serena airport to take you to your hotel, where you can check in and enjoy your free afternoon.

Day 2: Llanos de Challe National Park - La Serena

Blooming Desert / Llanos de Challe National Park

Departure: 06:00
Duration: Full day
Includes: Boxlunch
Pickup / Dropoff: La Serena

Llanos de Challe National Park, located three hours north of La Serena, is a coastal park that offers a unique opportunity to witness the natural phenomenon of the Blooming Desert. This spectacular event, which occurs between August and October in years with unusual rainfall, transforms the arid landscape into a vibrant mosaic of colours.

Pick up:06:00 am.

During the excursion through the Llanos de Challe National Park, you will take gentle hikes that will allow you to observe a great diversity of flowers of the Blooming Desert, such as the añañucas, suspiros, huillis, azulillos, and malvillas. With a little luck, you might encounter the elusive Lion's Paw. After a box lunch to recharge your batteries, you will continue exploring the park, where you can also appreciate different types of cacti and local fauna. The tour will end back in La Serena, enjoying the impressive blankets of magenta flowers that extend to the horizon under the light of the sunset, an unforgettable image to conclude this day in contact with nature.

Drop off: 20:00pm

Physical
Very low
Cultural
Very low
Nature
Very high

Day 3: Elqui Valley - La Serena

Elqui Valley Tour

Departure: 08:00
Duration: 10 hours
Includes: Lunch
Pickup / Dropoff: Hotel in La Serena

The Elqui Valley stands out for the production of wine and pisco. It is a green valley surrounded by mountains and traditional villages that mix the local culture and tourism.

We will leave from your hotel at approximately 8:00 am to know the Elqui Valley.

The first stop will be in a large gardening crop and then we will continue to visit plantations of chirimoyas, papayas, lúcumas and olive trees. But the most important of the area are the vineyards that give rise to pisco, which is the main product of the area.

This tour includes a visit to a pisquera plant where we will know the process of elaboration from the fermentation to the distillation, passing through the guard room and culminating with an exquisite tasting.

Our tour will continue in the village Vicuña, where we will meet the Bauer Tower, its church and the Armas square.

13:30 hours: lunch at delights of the Sun which is a restaurant that is cooked with solar energy and is very visited by national and international tourists.

Later we will visit the tomb of Gabriela Mistral in Montegrande. She was a Chilean poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. We will also go to the School House (free access) where she lived all her childhood and today functions as a museum.

19.00: We will be back at your hotel.

The tour is available on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

Cultural
Medium
Nature
Very low

Day 4: Departure day

Transfer: Hotel Hotel in La Serena

Included

Airport / hotel / airport transfer
03 nights accommodation at Hotel Club La Serena
Breakfast
Full Day Excursion to the Blooming Desert with box lunch
Full Day Excursion to the Elqui Valley with lunch

NOT Included

All not mentioned in the itinerary.

Notes

Blooming Desert:

Itinerary subject to change depending on flowering areas
The Desert Bloom excursion operates on: September 20-25-27, October 01-04-11-15-18-22-25-29, and November 01-06.

Elqui Valley: