Private Program 4 Days San Pedro De Atacama

Private Program 4 Days San Pedro De Atacama

This is a 4 day program, ideal minimum stay to enjoy the region. The emblematic Valley of the Moon receives them the first day; the Rainbow Valley shows us another color of the desert; and from the second day we enter the vast Andean Altiplano that gives us some of the innumerable postcards that this territory offers.

All the tours have their "particular touch": avoid the schedules of greater flow of tourists; tour other sectors less visited and of great value; share a picnic surrounded by nature; or simply share moments of conversation and silence while touring San Pedro de Atacama and its surroundings.

I see tourism as an art that requires dedication in details and elegance in its execution; each program is special and each excursion an opportunity to meet with the enjoyment of life and its beauty. That's why I enjoy organizing and guiding private programs, fostering an intimate and authentic encounter with the environment.

Itinerary

Day 1: TWO HALF DAY DEPARTURES: a.m. Valley of the Moon / p.m. Valley of Rainbow

Stop At: Valle De La Luna, San Pedro de Atacama Chile
In the morning, departure 9h00 a.m.

Modality: Panorama // hiking.

Total duration: from 3 to 4 hours.

Distance: about 20 km.

Meals included: none

Return: before lunch time

The visit to the Valley of the Moon and the Valley of Mars is a "must do" in the region. It is located at 2,500 meters above sea level and only ten minutes by car from San Pedro de Atacama. Here we will visit part of the Cordillera de la Sal, which is actually the set of folds and hills where these two valleys meet.

A topography carved by rain and wind for millions of years allows us to see different layers of highly soluble sediments such as clay, sand, conglomerates and different types of salt; creating a unique and fascinating landscape. The reddish and muddy tones interspersed with white layers illuminated by the intense sun of the Atacama Desert, create a unique landscape that seems from another planet, and that in turn is framed by the imposing Andes Mountain Range, the backbone of America.
Duration: 4 minutes

Stop At: Valle Arcoiris, San Pedro de Atacama Chile
In the afternoon, departure 15h00

Modality: Scenic // Hiking

Total duration: 3 to 4 hours.

Distance: about 150 km round trip.

Meals included: none.

The Arcoiris valley is located about three thousand meters above sea level in the Domeyko mountain range, located west of Salar de Atacama on the road between Calama and San Pedro de Atacama. This valley shows us a unique place for its geology; Its particular formation of magmatic origin is rare in the world. The result: mountains of contrasting green, red, gray, white and purple.

Duration: 4 minutes

No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.

Day 2: FULL DAY: SALAR DE QUISQUIRO & MONKS OF THE PAKANA

Stop At: Salar de Aguas Calientes, San Pedro de Atacama Chile
Full Day, departure 9h00

Modality: landscape / scenic

Total duration: 8 hours.

Distance: about 300 km.

Meals to include: picnic lunch (extra cost per person is detailed in inclusions and exclusions)

Taking the international route to Paso Jama (Argentina), in less than 30 kilometers, we go from 2,400 meters of altitude to 4,700 meters of altitude, and we are quickly in the Andean Altiplano. This itinerary allows us to understand the geological formation of the Altiplano and to know directly the immensity of its landscapes, the diversity of its flora and its typical fauna.

 One of the most important points of the visit are the monks of Pakana, huge columns of rock, remains of the ancient volcano caldera eruptions. Very close to the magnificent Salar de Aguas Calientes and Laguna Negra.

The Salar de Quisquiro and the Loyoque lagoon are the next sector to visit in this context of a plain surrounded by rocks and mountains. Here, we can appreciate the Bofedales, a type of unique wetland typical of the Altiplano that forms small meadows at the edges of these lagoons and water sources.
Duration: 7 hours

No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.

Day 3: FULL DAY PLUS: LAGUNA BLEACH, SALAR LA LACO, SALAR DE TALAR

Stop At: Laguna Lejia, San Pedro de Atacama Chile
Full day excursion, departure 9h00 a.m.

Modality: landscape / scenic

Duration: 10 hours

Distance: 400 km round trip.

Meals to include: Picnic lunch and snack in Socaire.

This great tour of the Atacama highlands is one of the most authentic experiences offered in the area.

We left in the morning in a southeasterly direction. Already about 60 kilometers from San Pedro de Atacama we turn directly towards the East to rise quickly near the 4000 ms.n.m. to the skirts of the imposing Lascar volcano. From here we already have a magnificent view of the entire surface of the Atacama salt flat.

We continue to completely enter the Altiplano to meet Laguna Lejía at 4,300 m.s. where begins our feast of images of mountains, pastel colored plains, bofedales, salt flats, volcanic reliefs and a flora and fauna adapted to the isolation of these places.

Then we went to Maar Overo, a special type of crater that originates from an explosion caused by the contact between underground water and lava. This has a diameter of 600 meters and a depth of 80, a magnitude that can only be appreciated when we put a human scale on some of its edges.

Our next stop, a few kilometers later, will be the beautiful Salar de Aguas Calientes II. There are three salt flats with the same name in the area, on DAY 2 we see the first and this day we will see the other two. This Salar has a beautiful bofedal and around it offers a different perspective since it mixes lagoon and salt elements.

We will have lunch in the shelter of large rocks of volcanic origin and then cross a great altiplano pampa between mountains surpassing 4,600 m.s.n.m. Then, almost on the border with Argentina, after asking permission in an isolated post of Carabineros de Chile, we will discover the Salar De El Laco. This, with its white and extensive surface, which normally houses numerous flamingos, offers us a different image of the water systems of the Andean high plateau.

From El Laco we return to the paved road and begin our return to San Pedro de Atacama, but we have only covered half of the distance and we still have to discover the Tuyacto lagoon and the Salar de Aguas Caliente III, also called Piedras Rojas. Both sites offer us more colors and combinations of unique beauty.

From here we begin to descend back to the desert and we will make a last stop in the village of Socaire to take a snack and rest a few minutes before the last stretch to San Pedro De Atacama.
Duration: 10 hours

No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.

Day 4: EARLY MORNING: TATIO GEYSERS

Stop At: Geyser del Tatio, 174a Caracoles, San Pedro de Atacama 1410000 Chile
In the morning, departure 5h30 a.m.

Modality: landscape / scenic

Total duration: from 7 to 8 hours.

Distance: about 200 kms.

Meals to include: breakfast type picnic (extra cost per person is detailed in inclusions and exclusions)

Return: Before lunch time.

The geysers of Tatio represent the third geothermal field in the world with 6% -8% of the total geysers that exist. Early in the morning, as soon as the sun rises, we can observe a particular phenomenon: by the contrast between the boiling water coming from the geysers and the temperature of the place, which can be lower than -20 ° C in winter, the columns of Steam rise from each thermal source.

Duration: 7 hours

Stop At: Vado del Rio Putana, Ruta B-245, San Pedro de Atacama Chile
In addition to the geysers, the landscape seen in this part of the Altiplano, located more than four thousand meters above sea level is beautiful. The road back to San Pedro is part of the excursion and is probably the best place to observe the fauna of the region and high Andean wetlands.
Duration: 1 hour

No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.