Day 1. Airport Calama - San Pedro de Atacama.
Arriving at the airport in Calama, transfer to San Pedro de Atacama, accommodation in the lodge.
Day 2. San Pedro de Atacama - City Tour San Pedro de Atacama - Valle de la Luna.
Visit the Town of San Pedro de Atacama: Atacama Cultural Center, located at the river mouth of the most important river that supplies the salt. We'll visit the Archaeological Museum in San Pedro de Atacama, which shows an important anthropological collection of the Atacama culture. Visit to his old plaza paved with peppers trees. His former church the largest and beautiful area.
17:30: Pukara Quitor: Visit The Pukara Quitor dating from the twelfth century, an important defensive fortress of culture Atacama, located 3 km from San Pedro de Atacama, an area of 2.5 hectares and a strategic location is defended by an impassable gorge on the river, a wall in Quebradillas and a part that is most accessible to the valley. It is an impressive building that climbs a steep hill in their houses and stone walls were used together with mortar of land. At the center stands out as a semicircular tower building. Return to San Pedro.
Day 3. Toconao Salar de Atacama - Valle de la Luna - Valle de la Muerte - San Pedro de Atacama.
09:00: Departure Toconao by the way, the road goes straight across the lowness and view the imposing volcano Licancabur, in the route will see species of trees in the area such us tamarugo, chañar, the arrival at 38 km ans town Toconao, brief visit to the square and main church watching the houses built on volcanic rock (Liparita), panoramic view of the quarry and Jere Valley. We then placed in the Salar de Atacama, located in the Los Flamencos National Reserve at an altitude of 2305 m, more saline surface area of 400 square kilometers. It is the largest salt deposit in Chile, which ends in a depression of water, which receives the San Pedro river and many streams in which water is filtered from the Altiplano. The formation of gaps like Chaxa has generated a proliferation of bird species including flamingos. Return to San Pedro Town.
16:30 Departure to the Valley of Death and Moon, both valleys are part of the Los Flamencos National Reserve, located within the mountains of salt, a few kilometers from San Pedro de Atacama. Walk: a path or narrow gorge with high hills, canyons, we are very close to Death Valley, a place with beautiful shapes and colors where you can walk on the dunes between the hills and mountains of cuts produced by erosion water and wind. Then visit the Valley of the Moon, Town declared sanctuary of nature, is formed by a depression with saline soil and surrounded by small hills with beautiful shapes and colors and see where we can walk with a spectacular geological sculptural forms, like those of the lunar surface. Visit the salt statues "Las Tres Marias," Salt mine go up to the big dune at sunset to admire in all its glory, this beautiful panorama. Return to San Pedro de Atacama at approximately 20:30.
Day 4: Tatio Geyser - Caspana - Chiu Chiu - Lasana.
04:00 Departure to the Geysers Tatio located at a distance of 97 kms from San Pedro and at an altitude of 4,300 mts. Arriving at approximately 06:45, the temperature is below zero. Breakfast and walk led by the geothermal field, observing the impressive columns of steam (Geysers), smoke, hundreds of pools of boiling water and high mountains is a spectacular vision of nature at dawn. Then we moved into the area of thermal pools with water approx. 40c º where passengers can take a refreshing swim. Then starts decreasing Acalla the City of Calama, en route visit Caspana village, situated in a fertile valley that contrasts with its desert environment, at an altitude of 3305 mts. Notable for their crops in terraces and architecture of ancient ancestors of Incan origin. Visit the village of Chiu Chiu founded by the Spanish which stresses her beautiful Church Built shortly before 1675. It was the first village in the area of the river Loa. After 10 kilometers of the river, amongst beautiful gardens surrounded by high cliffs can see many petroglyphs (drawings carved in stone) in the year 400 until the arrival of the Spaniards. Visit Lasana Pukara is a fortress town of the twelfth century, largely conserved, highlighting its more than 100 buildings built in stone, situated on a cliff against the defensive walls and river towards the west, it was standing room and the heads administration, as well as place of shelter of the population. Lunch at restaurant in Lasana, arriving in San Pedro de Atacama.
Day 5. San Pedro de Atacama - geoglyphs of Pintados - Pica.
08.00 a.m. On route across large part of the Atacama Desert, the driest of the world where we can appreciate its beauty in magnitude. Visit the geoglyphs painting one of the most important archaeological heritage, unique in this part of the world, consisting of a beautiful demonstration of Rock Art with over 400 figures, which are distributed along the slopes of hills or groups of panels theme. These are built with the techniques of mosaic, scraping and mixed. Then transfer to the town of Pica. Lunch in typical restaurant Pica. Dinner and accommodation.
Day 6. Pica - La Tirana - saltpeter - Gigante de Atacama - Colchane.
08:00 Departure to the city of Iquique, en route visit to the oasis of Matilla, which is remarkable for its church and its seventeenth-century Spanish Lagar. Visit to the Sanctuary of Tirana, where every July 16 is celebrated one of the most important religious festivals in the country. We continue to Offices and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works Humberstone, declared a National Monument, we can discover the magnificent past of Salitre. The architecture for its boilers, chimneys, church, shop, hotel and theater. Continue after leaving the ghost towns, to the Town of Huara to take off towards the Cerro Unita, beautiful geoglyph of 86 mts. height called Gigante de Atacama, an anthropomorphic figure of the largest in prehistory, began ascending slowly from a geological landscape of contrasts where the colors are the main feature came to town Colchane Border, located at 212 kms of the City of iquique at an altitude of 3730 meters in the highlands. Dinner and accommodation.
Day 7. (FULL DAY). Colchane - Salt Surire - Lauca National Park - Putre.
Leave in the morning from Colchane, visit the towns of altiplanicos Isluga, Enquelga, aravilla gaps, crossed the National Park Isluga and make payment with a Vicuña National Reserve, Salt Surire, visit Hot springs Polloquere (according Picnic Time) observation flamencos. Guallatire town, panoramic view featuring active volcano fumaroles. Stop in the town of Ancuta, Lake Chungara first observations, then we know to Lagoon Cotacotani. Bogs of Chucullo, balcony Chucullo and then heading toward Putre (Hotel).
8 Day. Putre - Arica.
Departure from the village of Putre Stop Putre balcony, town of Socoroma, Pukara Copaquilla, Candelabrum Cactus, Poconchile. Azapa Valley, then the fertile valley Lluta, Arrival to Arica accommodation or transfer to the airport.
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