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Valley of the Moon
Reception at El Loa airport in Calama and transfer to San Pedro de Atacama. We will set out for the Valley of the Moon. It is a quiet and enigmatic place similar to a lunar landscape with important stone formations and big sand dunes.
To get to the Valley, you take the road parallel to the Salt Mountains Range, crossing the driest desert in the world. In the Valley of the Moon, we will see the salt statues, Las Tres Marías, the salt mine and the salt caverns. In the afternoon, we will get back to San Pedro. |
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Tatio Geysers, Atacama Salt Flat and Toconao
We will get up very early to go to our next meeting point: the Tatio Geysers, which are at 4,000 m.a.s.l. They eject springs of water of almost 8 meters; these stream columns give mystic charm to the natural landscape.
We will walk around the different geysers and take a bath in the thermal water pool. In the afternoon we will visit the town of Toconao. Then we will go to the quarries of Liparita stone and Jerez Valley. Finally, we will arrive at the Atacama Salt Flat and Chaxa Lagoon to stop by and watch the flamingos as the sun goes down. |
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Calama - Santiago
Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Calama Airport.
Reception and transfer from Santiago de Chile Airport to the hotel.
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Santiago – City Tour
Breakfast at the hotel. We will visit the city of Santiago. We will visit some interesting places such as: the Presidential Palace known as Palacio de la Moneda (Government House), which is a neoclassic building because all coins of the country in the past were coined there. To get to the Palace, we will take the main avenue, Bernardo O' Higgins Boulevard.
The Historical and Civic Center, along with Huérfanos and Ahumada pedestrian walkways, are the places which concentrate the main business activity of the city and lead to Plaza de Armas (Main Square), strategic place where the first city layouts were designed. You can see the Metropolitan Cathedral, the Main Post Office and the Town Hall.
Then we will go to the University neighborhood, the Art Museum and the river Mapocho on its side, the Equestrian Club; afterwards, we will visit San Cristobal Hill, also called Metropolitan Park, main green lung of Santiago de Chile.
We will visit the residential neighborhoods such as Providencia (with its business area), Las Condes or Vitacura, main towns involved in the growth and modernity of Santiago. The Bohemian neighborhood of Bella Vista concentrates a great cultural, artistic and night life.
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Viña del Mar and Valparaíso
Breakfast at the hotel. We will depart from our hotel towards the Pacific Ocean, pass by the agricultural valleys of Curacaví and Casablanca known for their fertile and fine agricultural and wine-growing richness. Then we will reach the city of Valparaíso, main port of the country.
Its picturesque silhouette, protected by a string of hills flowing into the sea, highlights the most important shipping destination in the South Pacific Ocean until the Panama Canal was opened in 1914.
We will go into the town center and its neighborhoods up the hills to better understand the most flourishing city of the beginnings of 20th century in Chile.
We will walk around its main squares and learn about the centennial tradition of its port. Walking along the coastline towards the bay, we will reach the city of Viña del Mar, the most famous and popular resort in the area with its neat parks and numerous palms depicting it as “Garden City”. It is the epicenter of youth in summer. After visiting its beaches, casino and avenues, we will return to Santiago.
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Puerto Montt and Puerto Varas
Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Santiago de Chile Airport. Reception and transfer from Puerto Montt Airport to Puerto Varas. We will visit Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt.
In Puerto Varas, also called City of Roses, we will visit houses built by the German colonizers at the beginning of the 20th century, and climb the Phillipi Hill.
In Puerto Mont, a city remarkable for its fishing and craft activity, we will visit the viewpoints and Puerto Angelmo, a traditional craftsmanship place
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Petrohué Waterfalls - Peulla
Breakfast at the hotel. We wil go to visit Peulla. We will sail along Llanquihue Lake towards Ensenada; the first stop is the Petrohué Waterfalls. Then we will continue up to Petrohué to get on the catamaran Lagos Andinos or the M/N Peulla.
We will sail the lake while enjoying spectacular views of Osorno and Puntiagudo volcanoes, Margaret Island, Yefi Fall and Tronador Hill. We will disembark at Peulla, a touristic village in the Andes Mountains. Then we can have lunch or do canopy, floating, horse back ridings on our own. Finally we will get back to Puerto Varas.
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Puerto Montt - Punta Arenas City Tour - Puerto Natales
Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Puerto Montt Airport in District Lakes .Reception at Punta Arenas Airport.
Punta Arenas was the first significantly populated town in Southern Patagonia. It was established on December 18, 1948. Soon it became the most important cultural, industrial, commercial and stock center in the region. We will visit the Salesian museum Maggiorino Borgatello, where we can find an important collection of Magellan wildlife specimens, folklore relics and crafts made by Tierra del Fuego native people such as yamanas, selk’nam and kaweskar aborigenes. Transfer from Punta Arenas to Puerto Natales. |
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Towers of Paine
Breakfast at the hotel. Early in the morning we will set out from Puerto Natales towards Towers of Paine National Park. We will visit the one-thousand years old Milodón Cave, a stunning natural feature which has indescribably anthropological value, where it is probable that the first Patagonian men lived, as the Milodón, an extinct herbivorous animal.
Then we will go to the Biosphere Reserve: Towers of Paine National Park. Along the way we will cross lagoons full of aquatic vegetation and birds, and hills where we can find herds of guanacos grazing.
We will visit the most important places in this beautiful park, such as Nordenskjold Lake which covers the foot of the mountain with its emerald-color waters and originates the Big Fall forming Pehoé Lake.
We will do trekking along the Pingo River crossing it to pass by the sandy spot which delimits the borders of the lake; here we will watch ancient ice forms by the shore and the Grey Glacier accompanied by the magnificent scenario of hills, forests and Paine Mountains.
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Puerto Natales - Punta Arenas
Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Puerto Arenas Airport.
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