THE BEST OF CHILE – TORRES DEL PAINE, LAKES AND ATACAMA DESERT

• Upon your arrival, we will receive you at the airport and bring you safely and comfortably to your hotel.
• City tour: Visiting the main tourist attractions.
• Santiago is a mixture of the old and the modern, features that we invite you to know. Our trip through Santiago will show the immensity of the city, its varied geography and civility.
• We will guide you through the Main Square of Santiago, where the Cathedral, Main Post Office and City Hall are located. You will be told about the origins of our city.
• Next stop is the civic neighbourhood and the surroundings of La Moneda Government Palace.
• After that, we will drive through some of the old areas of Santiago, such as República and Concha y Toro neighbourhoods.
• Later we will visit the eastern part of the city, and we will see the modern buildings and the changes that they have brought to the district.
• We finish our tour in a handicraft store, located in an exclusive neighbourhood, where we’ll appreciate with a Pisco Sour, Lapizlázuli masterpieces, made with this stone that just exists in Chile and Afghanistan.
• Return your hotel.
• Enjoy your first

• Breakfast buffet served in the hotel restaurant.
• We will begin our tour from the hotel, in a 120-kilometre trip towards the Pacific Ocean.
• Our “Garden City”, Viña del Mar, will charm us with its architecture, its streets, palaces, and Quinta Vergara.
• We will have the possibility to know a Moai statue from Easter Island and a handcraft store of Lapizlasuli (Faba).
• Following we are going to visit the port city of Valparaiso dating back 1536. The city was declared World Heritage by Unesco, and it is currently the site of the legislative power of Chile. It is a magical place of unique and unforgettable landscapes with colourful neighbourhoods and picturesque funicular elevators. We visit Sotomayor Square and the port, where we can navigate through Valparaiso Bay.
• In the evening, we will return to Santiago.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Santiago.
• Breakfast inclu

• Take the first flight to Punta Arenas airport, because a lovely day is awaiting you.
• Enjoy your free time.
• Transfer to the bus terminal to take the bus towards the city of Puerto Natales (03:15 hours trip).
• Arrival in the town and transfer to hotel.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Puerto Natales.
• Breakfast

• After your breakfast, approximately at 07:30 am, we will depart from the hotel to start the full-day excursion that will lead us to the stunning Milodon Cave Natural Monument and later to the Torres del Paine National Park.
• You will enjoy overwhelming views of the impressive mountains and beautiful lakes such as Sarmiento, Nordenskjold and Pehoé. Its rich fauna will be present through “guanacos” and “foxes”, among others, including several birds we easily can watch during the trip.
• A short trek will take us to the Salto Grande, a magnificent waterfall coming from the rivers of the park.
• Then, returning to the main road, we will access the administrative headquarters of CONAF to continue to the Grey Lake where after a 30-minute walk through a thousand-years forest, we will get to its beach. This is a place to admire, and you can see big pieces of icebergs coming from the glacier.
• A box lunch is included in the service.
• Approximately at 07:30 pm, we will return to your hotel.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Puerto Natales.
• Breakfast

• At approximately 06:30 am you take a bus from Puerto Natales to Argentina.
• This will be a long day and will make a 5-hour trip (360 km) to get to Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina. Not always crossing Chile to Argentina means crossing the Andes. In our case, in Patagonia, the Andes Mountain Range is part of the Patagonian Archipelago. Thus, after passing the borderline, the landscape will be the vast and windy Patagonian steppe.
• During the tour, it will be possible to see in the distance the Argentino Lake and the Santa Cruz River going to the Atlantic Ocean.
• After our arrival in Calafate, we will have a short period at disposal. Then we will continue another 80 km until we get the park to start the excursion to the Perito Moreno Glacier, unique glacier growing in the world. We will access the walkway this ice from different angels.
• The return will be through the same way with one hour to visit the city of Calafate.
• At approximately 10:30 pm return to Puerto Natales city.
• Lunch Box and Park entrance are included.
• Do not forget documentation for border crossing, passport and card entry to the country.
• Children with the permission of both parents.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Puerto Natales.
• Breakfast an

• At 7:30 am transfer from your hotel to local pier.
• At 08:00 am departure in a sailing excursion to Balmaceda Glacier and Serrano Glacier. This sailing lasts about 4 hours to Bernardo O’Higgins National Park.
• During the trip, we will be able to observe the first local cattle ranches, cormorants and sea lion colonies, beech forests waterfalls and cliffs, the perfect home of majestic Condor.
• Once in the park, we will get to Monte Balmaceda that show us, from its eastern slope, the glacier of the same name.
• Later we will approach land on Puerto Toro docking area, from where we will start a short trek to Serrano Glacier crossing a native forest and the lake’s shore.
• At approximately 5:00 pm return to Puerto Natales to take the regular bus who will get us back to the city of Punta Arenas.
• Transportation to your hotel.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in the Punta Arenas.
• Breakfast

• After your breakfast, we will bring you to the Punta Arenas airport.
• Flight to Puerto Montt.
• Reception in the El Tepual Airport (Puerto Montt) and transfer to your hotel.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Puerto Varas.
• Breakfast

• Today we have a full day tour, and we are going to visit the northern part of Chiloé Island.
• After a 30-minute trip by ferry, watching a wide variety of birds, we will get to a small village called Chacao to visit the main square and the church.
• We go to Dalcahue, where we stop at the promenade to walk and visit the handicraft market, museum and church.
• Now it´s time to have a delicious lunch.
• Following, we go to Castro city through a coastal road.
• We will head to the Gamboa River stilt houses, the main square and the church.
• Next, we go to a small village known as Nercón to visit the last places of our journey.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Puerto Varas.
• Breakfast an

• After your breakfast, you depart from the hotel.
• A lake born in a glacier and an active volcano are two must-sees you cannot miss.
• We will visit the Fundo Playa Venado, countryside and livestock.
• Once inside the Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park, we will visit the worldwide known Petrohué Riverfalls, with turquoise colours that delight travellers.
• Then, we will head to the origin of this river: the Todos Los Santos Lake, to visit its volcanic sand beaches and the Museo de los Colonos (Settlers Museum – not included).
• After that, at the foothill of the Osorno Volcano, we will stop at the village of Ensenada before we continue up to the Osorno Volcano Ski Center, where we will enjoy time for lunch and the surroundings.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Puerto Varas.
• Breakfast included

• Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to the Puerto Montt airport. Flight to Santiago and Calama.
• Reception and transfer to San Pedro de Atacama.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel on San Pedro de Atacama.
• Breakfast included

• Departure at 07:00 hrs. from the hotel.
• Visit of the Toconao town, typical handicrafts in Atacama, and the San Lucas Tower (National Monument).
• The travel includes the visit to the Atacama Salt Flat, entering the Los Flamencos National Reserve (Chaxas Lagoon area).
• We will continue our trip to the altiplano to get to the Miscanti and Miñiques lagoons (4,150 m.o.s.l.).
• In the middle of our route, we will have a stop in the Socaire town (3,200 m.o.s.l.) to get acclimatised and take photos of the San Bartolomé church.
• Return to San Pedro at 7:00 pm approximately.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in San Pedro de Atacama.
• Breakfast

• Breakfast at the hotel and let´s start our trip to the Pukará del Quitor, the Salt Mountain Range and the Catarpe (Incas) ruins.
• Arrival in the Tulor ruins with more than 3,000 years old.
• Return to San Pedro through the Séquitor Ayllu.
• Return to the hotel at 1:00 pm.
• At 4:30 pm, departure from the hotel to the Moon Valley.
• On the way, we will enjoy a photo stop to take photos of the Salt Mountain from a viewpoint.
• After that, once in the Moon Valley, we will visit the salt statues “Las Tres Marías”, the salt mine, the salt caverns and we will look the evening from the big dune.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in San Pedro de Atacama.
• Breakfast and lunch

• We leave at dawn from San Pedro de Atacama Hotel to go to the Tatio Geysers, a geothermal centre with geysers that can only be seen very early in the morning.
• After seeing this spectacular sight in a magnificent natural setting, we have breakfast.
• On the way back, we see the majestic Andes mountain range, whose peaks seem close enough to touch.
• We then arrive at Machuca, a small llama herder settlement. The village is filled with adobe houses with thatched roofs.
• Transfer to airport and flight to Santiago.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Santiago de Chile.
• Breakfast

• After a restful night’s sleep and a delicious breakfast, it´s time to say Good-Bye, and we bring you back to the airport, to take your flight home.
• We are very proud to welcome you again in the future and to show you other marvellous and fantastic parts of the world.
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