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San Pedro de Atacama: 4-Days Magic Desert Adventure

Package Details
Destination: San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Duration: 4 days
Price: $205.13
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A complete program that includes transfer from Calama to Hotel in San Pedro, Valley of the Moon Tour,  Red Stone tour with Salar de Atacama and Toconao, Geiser del Tatio Tour, and a Lagoon Cejar visit and Transfer back to the Airport

Itinerary
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Stop At: Avenida Aeropuerto, Calama, Antofagasta, Chile
When you pick up your luggage, you should pay attention to the person with a sign in your name, if you can not find it, please go to the TRANSVIP counter to request assistance.

The duration of the trip is around 1 hour and 30 minutes from airport to San Pedro de Atacama town. Please be sure your flight arrive earily in the morrning to be available to start the afternoon tour.
Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Valle De La Luna, San Pedro de Atacama Chile
In the Afternoon We will make the Tour to the Famous Valley of the Moon, located approximately to 10 kms. Of San Pedro de Atacama, declared sanctuary of the nature, is part of the national reserve the flamingos, located inside the mountain range of the salt. Place with beautiful shapes and colors where we can walk and observe a geological show with sculptural forms, similar to the lunar surface. Visit the salt statues "Las Tres Marías", the salt caverns. We will go up to the great dune at sunset to admire in all its splendor this beautiful panorama. Return to the town of San Pedro de Atacama.

Arrival approx. 8:00 p.m.
Duration: 4 hours

Stop At: Lagunas Miscanti y Miniques, Caracoles 174b, San Pedro de Atacama 1410000 Chile
We started picking up all our passengers from 06:30 am. From their respective hotels.

Our first stop will be after about 1 hour of travel in the Miscanti and Miñiques highland lagoons located at 4200 m.s.n.m. In these lagoons breakfast is taken and the fauna of the place can be appreciated.
Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Piedras Rojas, San Pedro de Atacama 1410000 Chile
Then we will go to Piedras Rojas where we will visit Salar de Aguas Calientes and Salar de Talar, where we can appreciate the rock formations reddish colors.
Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Iglesia de Socaire, San Pedro de Atacama Chile
The next stop is in the Atacameño village of Socaire, where you will have lunch in a typical restaurant. You can also observe the terraces of culture and the village church.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Salar de Atacama, Antofagasta Chile
Then visit the Salar de Atacama, Chiles largest salt lake, where the national flamingo reserve is located and the Chaxa lagoon is visited to watch 3 types of flamingos, as well as other species that inhabit the lagoons of the to Salt.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Cementerio de Toconao, Ruta 23 S/N Provincia de El Loa, Toconao Chile
As the last stop we can visit the town of Toconao where we will appreciate the fantastic architecture of the bell tower and the village church, to return to San Pedro de Atacama around 16:30 hours.

The tour includes breakfast and lunch, Guided in Spanish and English.
Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Geyser del Tatio, 174a Caracoles, San Pedro de Atacama 1410000 Chile
Departure at 04:30 from the hotel, to take a gravel road, by which we start ascending towards the Geyser del Tatio located at a distance of 97 Kms from San Pedro and at an altitude of 4,300 mts. All the route we realize at night, we arrive at this spectacular sector of our altiplano at approximately 06:45, normally the temperature at this time is below zero.

Breakfast and hiking guided by the geothermal field, observation of the impressive columns of steam (Geiser), fumaroles, hundreds of pools of boiling water and high peaks is a spectacular view of nature at dawn. In this sector we can see part of the typical Andean fauna as Vizcachas and Vicuñas. Then we move to the sector of the thermal pools with water with approx 40º where passengers can take a bathroom repair. Then we will start the return to San Pedro, through the impressive landscape of the Andes mountain range, in the route we can see the volcano Tocorpuri and Licancacabur. Arrival in San Pedro at approximately 12:00.
Duration: 3 hours

Stop At: Feria Artesanal San Pedro de Atacama, Gustavo Le Paige In front of Plaza San Pedro de Atacama, San Pedro de Atacama Chile
We will be back in San Pedro de Atacama town at noon so you can use your time to visit the town and have a lunch by yourself. Making time to start the afternoon tour.
Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Laguna Cejar, 20 KM from San Pedro de Atacama, San Pedro de Atacama Chile
We head toward the salted lagoon of Cejar, around 20 klms. away from San Pedro de Atacama and it´s situated in the middle of Atacama Salt flat at 2.600 mts. above sea level.

This lagoon is dominated by a great beauty of sceneries, its deep turquoise color water and the salt formations .

This extraordinary case of geo-morphological formation is unique in the Atacama salt flat, you can bring the swimming trunks and/or bathing suit are required if you are willing to experience the closest feeling of flying, in other words , having the chance of floating and not sinking into water. All this area with a exceptionally decorated in colors and formations background , is a spectacular place to observe the sunset.
Duration: 2 hours

Pass By: Parque El Loa, Avenida O'Higgins, Calama 1390000 Chile
This last day you will be picked up from your hotel 3 hours before your flight departure time, please check with the local supplier the exact pick up time 1 day before you will leave the place.