In five days you can enjoy San Pedro de Atacama and its surroundings. You will visit Moon Valley, altiplanic (Miscanti and Miñiques) lagoons, the famous Tatio Geysers, and another atractives in the area.
Day 1: Moon Valley - San Pedro de Atacama
Transfer: Airport in Calama Hotel in San Pedro de Atacama
Tour through the Valle de la Luna
- Departure: 14:30
- Duration: 5 hours
- Pickup / Dropoff: Hotel in San Pedro de Atacama
Feel as if you were walking on the moon and on Mars with this tour that will take you to know two classics of the Atacama Desert.
Sairemos do seu hotel em San Pedro de Atacama às 15:00, aproximadamente, e iremos rumo à cordilheira de La Sal. No caminho faremos um desvio para conhecer a rota pela qual se transportava o enxofre desde San Pedro de Atacama.
Depois passaremos pelo Valle de Los Dinosaurios e o Valle de La Muerte para admirar uma vista panorâmica espetacular do Deserto do Atacama.
Continuaremos o caminho até o Valle de La Luna, onde encontraremos formações geológicas que são o resultado de sucessivas dobras da crosta terrestre.
Durante o entardecer, as montanhas são pintadas de cores douradas e avermelhadas. Lá visitaremos a escultura salina conhecida como Las Tres Marías, as velhas jazidas de sal, as misteriosas cavernas e a grande duna.
19:15: Estaremos de volta ao seu hotel.
- PhysicalVery low
- NatureVery high
Day 2: San Pedro de Atacama - Toconao - Lagunas Altiplánicas (Miscanti & Miñiques) - Socaire - Atacama Salt Flat
Tour to the Altiplanic Lagoons, Piedras Rojas and the Salar de Atacama
- Departure: 09:00
- Duration: 10 hours
- Includes: Lunch
- Pickup / Dropoff: Hotel in San pedro de Atacama
Learn about the different landscapes in San Pedro de Atacama visiting the Chaxa Lagoon, home of flamingos and other birds, Piedras Rojas, the Altiplánicas lagoons located at more than 4,000 masl and the town of Toconao.
We will pick you up at your hotel at 8.00 am to leave for the beautiful water mirror of Laguna Chaxa, which has become the habitat of dozens of flamingos and parinas, who come there attracted by its shallow waters. Then we will continue to the Altiplano to reach Piedras Rojas, where we will have a viewpoint to observe the volcanic conglomerate formed from the oxidation of the iron in the place.
Later we will travel to the Altiplano, where the Miscanti and Miñiques lagoons are located, located at more than 4,200 meters above sea level, surrounded by imposing volcanoes, Licancabur and Láscar, and habitat for a wide variety of birds. Continue to Toconao, a town whose buildings were erected with stones of volcanic origin, such as its church and its bell tower, declared a National Monument.
At the end of the tour we will return to San Pedro de Atacama.
- PhysicalVery low
- CulturalMedium
- NatureVery high
Day 3: San Pedro de Atacama - Rainbow valley
Arcoiris Valley excursion
- Departure: 08:00
- Duration: 5 hours
- Pickup / Dropoff: Hotel in San Pedro de Atacama
We will visit the petroglyphs of Yerbas Buenas and we will cross the mountains of colors of the Rainbow Valley in the middle of the Domeyko Mountain in San Pedro de Atacama
We leave from your hotel in San Pedro de Atacama at approximately 8:00 and we will go to the Domeyko Mountain Range to visit the sector of Yerbas Buenas. There we will stop to observe one of the most important groups of petroglyphs of the region of Antofagasta.
Then we continue in the direction of the Rainbow Valley, named for the different colors given by the minerals in its mountains. We take a short hike to enjoy the scenery and continue to Rio Grande, a town that seems to have been frozen in time.
13:30: We are back at your hotel.
- PhysicalMedium
- NatureVery high
Astronomic Tour in the Atacama Desert
- Departure: 21:00
- Duration: 3 hours
- Pickup / Dropoff: Hotele in San Pedro de Atacama
With over 330 clear nights a year, the Atacaman Desert is one of the best scenarios in the world for star gazing. Live the experience of watching them through telescopes and knowing our surrounding universe more deeply.
We leave from your hotel and go to the Atacama Desert. We will begin our astronomical tour observing the skies using a green laser to signal the stars and explain the constellations, the rotation of the sky and the way it changes in relation to the latitude.
Then we will go to the telescopes to observe different types of nebulae and clusters of stars.
Finish the tour sharing hot chocolate.
- NatureVery high
Day 4: Puritama Hotsprings - San Pedro de Atacama
Puritama Hot Springs Tour
- Departure: 08:30
- Duration: 4 hours
- Includes: Boxlunch
- Pickup / Dropoff: Hotel in San Pedro de Atacama
Come and enjoy the Puritama hot sping in the middle of the Chilean highlands. Stress-depleting minerals are released from the water that fight stress and help relax.
We leave from your hotel at approximately 7:30 hours and we go 30 kilometers to the northeast of San Pedro de Atacama where we find the Puritama River. Its waters are born in the mountain range and take their temperature by volcanic materials. In this place the water flows to the surface giving origin to the Puritama Thermal Springs. The sector is equipped with the necessary basic services and terraces in each of the swimming pools.
Return your Hotel.
- NatureVery high
Day 5: Tatio Geysers - San Pedro de Atacama - Machuca
Tatio Geysers Tour
- Departure: 04:00
- Duration: 8 hours
- Includes: Breakfast
- Pickup / Dropoff: Hotel in San Pedro de Atacama
Tatio geysers are the highest geothermal field in the world. Meet the huge fumaroles that emanate from the earth and then visit the town of Machuca in the Chilean highlands.
We will leave from your hotel in San Pedro de Atacama at 4:30 AM and begin to climb the Chilean high plateau to reach El Tatio Geysers, the highest geothermal field in the world. We will arrive at this place shortly before 7AM, when steam fumaroles emerge more strongly, reaching temperatures above 85 ° C.
After observing this show, we will begin the descent towards San Pedro de Atacama. On the way we will pass through Machuca, which is a town with 20 houses and a church that opens so that tourists can visit it. In this town you can buy typical crafts from the Chilean highlands.
13.30: We will be back at your hotel.
- PhysicalVery low
- CulturalVery low
- NatureVery high
Transfer: Hotel in San Pedro de Atacama Airport in Calama
- Transfer Calama airport / San Pedro de Atacama hotel / Calama airport
- Half-Day Valley of the Moon Valley and Death Valley
- Excursion to Chaxa lagoon, Altiplanic lagoons and Socaire
- Arcoiris Valley Excursion
- Astronomic tour
- Tour to Puritama Hot Springs
- Tour through the geysers of El Tatio
- Ticket of entrance to the places mentioned
- Bilingual guide (spanish - english)
- IMPORTANT: The transfer only applies to hotels that are within the town of San Pedro de Atacama. If it’s not the case, we will let you know where we will meet, ask when booking.
- Airline ticket.
- All not mentioned in the itinerary.
Recommendations
Bring warm clothing for morning and afternoon tours, and light clothing for the rest of the day.
Program applies for flights of:
Arrival flight to Calama: arrival time until 11 am.
Departure flight: departure time from Calama 18:00 hrs.
Inquire about accommodation options with czuniga@gochile.cl.
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