| THE ATACAMA DESERT (Basic) |
EKA 027 08 Days – 07 NightsDay 01: SANTIAGO Arrival, reception at airport and transfer to selected hotel for accommodations and breakfast. Day 02: SANTIAGO Breakfast at hotel. Day at leisure. We suggest a City Tour around Santiago. Day 03: SANTIAGO – CALAMA –SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA Breakfast at hotel. Departure to airport on time to board flight with destination Calama. Reception and immediate transfer to San Pedro de Atacama throught the Domeyko mountains, located in the Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world. Arrival to your selected hotel and accommodations with breakfast. During the sunset we go to the Valle de la Luna, located in the salt mountain range, 90% salt and 10% other minerals, to observe an unusual landscape treasure at the bottom, made up by attractive and impressive geological formations of diverse shapes and colours, together with giant dunes and beautiful salt crystal on the crounching ground, that will make you feel like beeing in another planet or the moon itself. Day 04: SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA Breakfast at hotel. Departure in the morning to start an Arqueological Tour, visiting the Pukará of Quitor, Cordillera de la Sal and the old Ruins of Tulor, dating 3000 years and the Pictoglyphs of the Roca de Coca. Return to your hotel. Rest of the day free.
Day 05: SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA Departure at 07:00 AM, heading to Lagunas Altiplanicas and Salar de Atacama. Our first visit will be El Tambillo (Artificial forest in the desert). Then we visit the village of Toconao, where you can see volcanic rocks crafts. We continue to Valle de Jeri, Laguna de Chaxa in the middle of the desert, to see pink Flemishs. Time for a box lunch. At the afternoon return to the hotel.
Day 06: SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA - SANTIAGO The departure is at 04:30, to visit the Geysers del Tatio, at 4.200 meters of altitud above de level of the sea, with a picnic breakfats included. Free time for guided walks, baths in little lakes, but most of all observe the Geysers. Return through chilean altiplanic and appreciating fog, where the anmals feed. Ending the day in the village of Machuca. Transfer to the Aeropuerto de Calama, for your next flight to Santiago. Arrive, reception and transfer to selected hotel for accommodations with breakfast.
Day 07: SANTIAGO Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to airport on time to board your next flight. IMPORTANT: The itinerary and excursions in San pedro de Atacama, are subject to modifications without previous advise.
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