San Pedro de Atacama: 4-Day Magic Desert Adventure

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1. When you pick up your luggage, you should pay attention to the person with a sign in your name 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.

   30 min

2. 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.

   4 h

3. 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.

   30 min

4. 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.

   1 h

5. 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.

   3 h

6. 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.

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Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

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How it compares in San Pedro de Atacama

• Its from-price is 199% above the median of the 289 experiences we list in San Pedro de Atacama.
• It is longer than most of them.
• By number of reviews it ranks 87 of 289.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About San Pedro de Atacama

San Pedro de Atacama is an adobe oasis town in northern Chile, ringed by salt flats, volcanoes, geysers and some of the driest desert on earth.

San Pedro de Atacama is a village of low whitewashed adobe houses and dusty streets in an oasis of the Atacama Desert, at about 2,400 metres. Its adobe church goes back to the 17th century and has a roof of cactus wood, and the small Museo Arqueológico Gustavo Le Paige displays mummies and pottery from the desert's early peoples. The cone of Licancabur volcano stands over the town to the east.

Top-ranked sights in San Pedro de Atacama: El Tatio Geysers, Moon Valley (Valle de la Luna), Chaxa Lagoon (Laguna Chaxa).

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