San Pedro de Atacama - surreal town

Duration

4D/3N

Highlights:

Uyuni, San Pedro de Atacama

Overview

Explore San Pedro de Atacama, Bolivia’s enchanting desert town. Immerse yourself in its surreal landscapes, rich indigenous heritage, and captivating stargazing opportunities.

Logistic support and telephone on call 24 hours a day
Driver – guide in Spanich highly specialized for the trips in the region
Private transportation (for the private program)
Semi-private transportation according the program, maximum 4 people per car (if a language guide is requested, this will be the 5th person)
– Toyota Land Cruiser 4X4, equipped with satellite cell phone, medical kit, oxygen tanks and fire extinguisher
Share transfer San Pedro de Atacama-Hito Cajon
Accomodation according to the program, on a double basis in standard private rooms with private bathdroooms, hot water and heating In case of unavailability, hotels of the same category will be proposed with the consequent modification of the program
Consigned meals (B= Breakfast, L= Lunch, D= Dinner, Bx= Box Lunch
Snack and mineral water for the trip (in the vehicle)

Guide in a language other than Spanish
Entrance fees (price apart)
Meals not included in the itinerary
Drinks during ,eals in hotels
Travel insurance, tips or other personal expenses
What is not mentioned in the program

San Pedro de Atacama-Ojo de Perdiz (Tayka del Desierto Hotel) (-/Bx/D)

In the morning we will pick you up from your hotel for the shared transfer from San Pedro de Atacama in Chile to the Bolivian border at Hito Cajon. Our Bolivian driver and guide will be waiting at the Bolivian / Chilean border so-called Hito Cajon.

Not far from the frontier, within the Bolivian territory, is already waiting for you the first highlight of the Nature Reserve Eduardo Avaroa; the turquoise shiny “Laguna Verde” located at the foot of the majestic volcano “Licancabur”.

After a stop you will travel through the Bolivian desert into the valley “Valle de las Damas del Desierto” or also know by the tourists as the “Salvador Dali desert” called over the rocks formed by the wind erosion and weather, unique in their shape and placed scattered in this vast desert. Subsequently, you will pass the ¨Salar de Chalviri¨ to reach the hot springs of Polques in which you will enjoy a relaxing bath surrounded by majestic landscapes.

After this relaxing activity you will arrive to the geyser “Sol de Mañana”, a spectacle of hissing steam columns, located at almost 5,000 meters above sea level. In the heart of Eduardo Avaroa Nature Reserve you will reach with the absolute highlight of this southern desert region; the ¨Laguna Colorada¨, with legions of flamingos waiting to be photographed.

Then you will visit the “Arbol de Piedra”, a stone figure created by wind erosion finally reaching the Siloli desert from where you sighted your hotel located right in the middle of a desert-style landscape.

Overnight in the Hotel Tayka del Desierto (- / BxL / D).

The bouquet of colorful highland lagoons are waiting for you today! The colorful mountain lagoons: Cañapa, Hedionda, Chiarkota, Honda and Ramaditas where you can spot a large number of flamingos or other birds of the area will give the opportunity to take amazing photographs!. On the shore of these lakes you will enjoy the view of the currently active Ollague volcano whose peaks are often covered with a snow cap in the desert sky.

For lunch we will stop in San Pedro de Quemes at the Hotel Tayka de Piedra. After a short walk through the ¨Pueblo Quemado¨ (burnt village) we will finally enter to the biggest highlight of your tour in Bolivia: the ¨Salar de Uyuni¨, the largest salt desert in the planet with approximately 12,000 km².

You will cross the salt lake from north to south, passing the Campana islands enjoying “white” landscapes with salt crystals that provide optical illusions. Here at the foot of the Tunupa volcano you will find a place not visit by the conventional tourism despite the incomparable beauty of its landscape. There is a visit to the ruins known as the “Pucara de Ch’jini” which have several hundred years of history and are testimony of an ancient fortress with residential buildings, storage reservoir, guard posts, etc., you will then reach the “Cathedral” trough the light climbing of a narrow to enjoy an exposed lookouts who opens an unforgettable view of the salt lake.

You will finally arrive to the village of Tahua where the Hotel Tayka de Sal is located (B / L / D)

Tahua-Uyuni (Tambo Aymara Hotel) (B/Bx/-)

After breakfast we will go towards Coquesa town. Enjoying the view at the flanks of the Tunupa volcano you will ascend to visit the cave and the mummies of Coquesa. From here the Salar lies literally at your feet. And because it is so beautiful and hardly to describe, today you will also have the opportunity again to enjoy the landscape of the Salar itself, crossing the Salar de Uyuni from north to east.

Then we will visit the Incahuasi Island which is located in the middle of the Salt Lake and is completely covered by a forest of giant cacti. A short trail takes you across the island where you can admire the centuries-old cactus that rise up to 12 meters into the blue sky. From the peak of the island you have a 360 ° viewpoint of the entire Salt flat.

In the afternoon you will leave the Salar at Colchani where you will come near to the shore where the salt mounds are piled up to dry and are a sample of the method of salt processing in this region. You will visit one local family that’s runs a micro enterprise based on the salt to know, how the local economy works, based on a cooperative local model. At your arrival to Uyuni you will enjoy a short tour to the train cemetery and then transfer to the hotel in Uyuni (B/Bx/-).

Uyuni-San Pedro de Atacama with semi private transfer (B/Bx/-)

We will pick you up from the hotel at 8:30 am in the morning to start our tour heading towards the town of San Cristobal located 2 hours from Uyuni. We will visit this particular town where the discovery of a great beta of minerals forced its displacement and construction to 21 kilometers from its original location, including the local church considered as one of the oldest in the Bolivian highlands (approx. XVII) and of which its historical and cultural value promoted its entire transfer and new location stone by stone.

We will then pass through the village of Alota to the Katar lagoon where you can enjoy a beautiful landscape and take the first pictures of the flamencos on this route. We will arrive at the Ciudad de Piedra (Stone city) where you can enjoy the thousands of geometric forms that the erosion of the wind has formed in this valley of rocks and we will head towards the town of Villamar.

Passing through the beautiful landscapes of the Quetena wetlands we will reach the beautiful highland lagoons of Kalina and Collpa lagoon.

Passing through Chalviri desert and Polques Hot springs we arrive to the pearl of the Reserve: the imperdible Green Lagoon denominated thus by the emerald color of its waters and also located at the feet of the majestic volcano Licancabur. From this imposing landscape we head to the Bolivian border with Chile at Hito Cajón to take our semi private transfer to San Pedro de Atacama (B / L / -).

End of our services in San Pedro de Atacama.

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