(11 Days and 10 Nights)
Day 01: Arica - Putre
The tour starts at 10:30 hrs. Visit the Agricultural Terminal for a typical market. We enter the Azapa Valley in the Geoglyph The Tropilla. Then visit the Museo San Miguel de Azapa. On our way to the Valley of Lluta where we have a view of both valleys. Lunch in an ecological community, Ecotruly. Appreciate the candelabra cactus and the magnetic zone, visit a pre-Inca fortress and know Copaquilla Socoroma foothills village 3000 meters. We'll walk into this town about 1 hour, small break (coffee and cookies). Arrival to Putre MSN 3500 at 18:30 hrs. approx. Dinner and accommodation.
Day 02: Putre - Lauca National Park - Putre
Departure from lodging in Putre at 08:30 hrs. approx. Breakfast in Putre or in Termas de Jurasi. To continue later to Bofedal de las Cuevas where we will hike 40 min. On the way we wild vicuna, and know vizcachas wetlands, ecosystem based on the altiplano (Mirador Bofedal Parinacota). We admire a variety of birds like northern pitios, guallatas, coots, among others. Lake Chungara, and Ponds Cotacotani return to Putre. Dinner.
Day 03: Putre - Surire
Breakfast in Putre Departure at 08:30 hrs. approx., visit Ancuta and Guallatire two highland villages over 4000 meters at the foot of the active volcano Guallatire. Arriving at Surire at 12:00 hrs. approx. Visit Chilcaya approx one hour walk., To photograph the flora and fauna, including the three types of flamingos that exist in the Salar (Andean, Chilean, James), then go to the Baths of Polloquere (MSN 4270), water of volcanic origin that emerge at 80 ° C, with a high content of minerals that allow us to rest pleasantly at 4270 m altitude. Picnic. CONAF Refuge accommodation. Dinner.
Day 04: Surire - Isluga - Enquelga - Colchane
Breakfast in CONAF shelter. Departure to Mulluri - Mirador de Arabilla, Enquelga. Visit the Isluga, where we meet the people Isluga with his Church and abundance of wetlands. Visit the giant cactus Rio Grande. At noon Picnic. Also observe geological formations poignant beauty.
Day 05: Colchane Pisiga - Tahoua (Bolivia)
Breakfast, crossed the Bolivian border Coipasa the Salar, Salar de Uyuni near the village of Llica, Tahoua, hotel accommodation Sal Tayka Supper.
Day 06: Tahoua - Salar de Uyuni - San Pedro de Quemes
Breakfast, Chillquilla, Chillima Pucara, Incahuasi island, the Mala Mala Bay, to the Galaxy Cave, San Pedro de Quemes. Overnight hotel Tayka Stone.
Day 07: Laguna del Desierto - Birdseye
After breakfast visit Quemes San Pedro, Laguna Cañapa, Laguna Hedionda, Laguna Honda, Ramaditas. Lunch box-lunch. Overnight Desert Tayka Partridge *** Eyes, 4,000 m.
Day 08: Eye of Partridge - Laguna Colorada - Laguna Verde - San Pedro de Atacama
First breakfast. Out presto Arbol de Piedra, Laguna Colorada, Sol de Mañana geyser, Chalviri desert, Valley of the Ladies of the Desert, Hito Cajon border. San Pedro de Atacama.
Day 09: San Pedro de Atacama - Salar de Atacama - Altiplanicas Lagunas - San Pedro de Atacama
Breakfast at the hotel. Departure from San Pedro de Atacama at 08.30 hrs. We are heading south to Toconao oasis at the edge of the Salar de Atacama. Continue to Socaire road (3218 m) to climb the Lagunas Altiplanicas Meñiques Miscanti and located at 4350 m in the Flamingos National Reserve of the 5 areas protected by CONAF. In Socaire lunch. After lunch we descend to the edge of the Salar de Atacama to visit the lakes of Chaxa brackish lagoons where flamingos feed Chilean, Andean and James. Return to the hotel in San Pedro de Atacama. Dinner and accommodation.
Day 10: San Pedro de Atacama - Quitor Pukara - Tulor - Moon Valley - San Pedro de Atacama
Breakfast at the hotel. Departure from San Pedro de Atacama at 08.30 hrs. Head towards the Pukara of Quitor, impressing Atacama fortress of XII century. Later visit the village of Tulor, the oldest vestige Housing in the salt (800 BC) is composed of circular enclosures interconnected with each other. There is a replica of them around, allowing us to contextualize this site visit.
Visit the Padre Le Paige Museum is the largest in the north. Lunch in San Pedro de Atacama, in the afternoon excursion to the Valley of the Moon. Departure from San Pedro at 16 hrs. about to Valle de la Luna, protected sector of the national reserve flamingos. Is a zone of folding mountains of salt in the evening you can see shadows and colors in the Atacama Desert. We walk through an area of caves from a large dune of 500 meters. For from that height watch the sunset. Return to the hotel in San Pedro. Dinner and accommodation.
Day 11: San Pedro de Atacama - Calama or airport
Departure to Tatio Geysers at 04:00 am to arrive at this geothermal field, one of the largest in Chile, at 07:30 hrs. With the dawn witness water fumes, gases and steam from Mother Earth; breakfast.
Road to Calama, passing the picturesque villages of Caspana, Chiu - Chiu for lunch in the village of Lasagna. Transfer Airport or Calama.
The tour includes:
Accommodation:
• 2 night hotel / hostel in Putre (according to availability).
• 1 night at Refuge Surire CONAF.
• 1 night in a hotel / hostel in Colchane.
• 3 nights Tayka Hotels in Bolivia.
• 3 nights in hotel / hostel in San Pedro de Atacama.
Food:
• 11 x breakfast in Putre, Parinacota, Surire (CONAF), Colchane, Hotels in Bolivia. San Pedro.
• 11 x lunch (Ecotruly, picnic in Parinacota and Polloquere, Salar de Uyuni, Lee, San Pedro de Atacama, Lasagne).
• 9 x dinner at restaurant in Putre, Parinacota, Surire (CONAF), Colchane, Hotels in Bolivia.
• drinks and mineral water.
• Fruit, coffee, biscuits.
Guide:
• guide / driver with experience in Spanish language.
Vehicle:
• minibus (van) with oxygen equipment.
• Vehicle travel 4x4 Bolivia (Toyota Land Crusier).
Miscellaneous:
• Check Museo San Miguel de Azapa Jurasi hot springs and Polloquere.
• Walking Socoroma, Bofedal of the Caves, in the Lagoons Cotacotani Surire Salar de Uyuni, Laguna Chaxa, Valley of the Moon.
