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Moon Valley Tour Geysers Tour

Accommodation

3 nights in San Pedro de Atacama. 3-Day 4WD Adventure to Uyuni with lodging in shared huts.

Transport

Transfers mentioned in the itinerary.

Meals

Daily breakfast and meals mentioned in the itinerary.

Guide

Bilingual guide (English / Spanish) during the excursions in San Pedro de Atacama. During the 4×4 adventure from Atacama to Uyuni, you will be accompanied by a Spanish speaking driver.

Hygieneprotocol

Please refer to your travel advisor to check the requirements to enter each country

Not included:

Others

National Park Entrance fees Transportation after the tour on Day 6. Accommodation after the tour on Day 6. Visa for Bolivia (citizens from United States & Australia, we recommend to find out if you are from another country )

Insurance

Travel / Medical Insurance excluded

Flights

International or Domestic flights

Optional

Other activities and services not included

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Day 1 Day 1: San Pedro De Atacama - Travel To Chile
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: San Pedro De Atacama - Travel To Chile

Upon arrival at Calama airport, you will be transferred to San Pedro de Atacama hotel.

Welcome to San Pedro!

San Pedro de Atacama is a small town in the driest desert in the world. Little adobe houses, and cozy restaurants are the base to explore one of Chile’s most spectacular sceneries.

Type of service: Private

Duration: 1:30 hours

Included: Transportation mentioned above, spanish/english speaking driver

Not included: Guide
Day 2 Day 2: San Pedro De Atacama - Half Day Half-Day Rainbow Valley & Moon Valley Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: San Pedro De Atacama - Half Day Half-Day Rainbow Valley & Moon Valley Tour

In the morning, we will pick you up at your hotel to enjoy the Rainbow Valley tour.

This magical place was formed by tectonic movements along with the volcanic activity of millions of years ago, place of conjunction between the Domeyko mountain range, salt range and the Andes. It owes its name to the wide variety of shades that can be observed in the hills of the valley, these give an account of the great richness and different concentrations of clays, salts and minerals.

This tour will also allow us to visit the petroglyphs of Good Herbs of great historical importance based on rock art, where the Atacameño people left a vestige of their culture through them (place of great geological content).

At the end of the tour, we will take you to downtown Atacama, from where you will go on your own to the hotel

Type of service: Shared

Duration: 6/7 hours

Max. altitude: 3.000 m.a.s.l. approx.

Included: Transportation mentioned above, driver-Guide, breakfast

Not included: Rainbow Valley and Yerbas Buenas entrance fees

Recommendations: Bring closed or trekking shoes, a jacket, hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, and water.

Restrictions: Pregnant people. Minimum age required of 7 years. People with hypertension, edema, or embolism (only with medical authorization).

Half-Day Moon Valley Tour

In the afternoon, you will go on your own to the meeting point to start the visit to the Valley of the Moon.

The excursion begins by visiting the fantastic geological shapes located in one of the world’s driest and most hostile zones of the world: the Atacama Desert. It is an area of outstanding beauty that resembles the lunar landscape because of the formations of stone, petrified salt and sand, which for millennia floods and winds have shaped in their own way.

You will be surprised by the enormous salt and clay figures built over the years and by the wind and you will know "The three Marys", famous figures of incomparable beauty that can be photographed and contemplated for a long time.

Finally, we will visit the salt caves accompanied by the imposing Licancabur volcano, to be surprised once again by the great magic of the desert, having the opportunity to enjoy the most beautiful sunset that you will not forget.

After the excursion, we will take you to downtown Atacama, and you will have to return to the hotel on your own.

Type of service: Shared

Duration: 3/4 hours

Included: Transportation mentioned above, bilingual driver guide (English/Spanish)

Not included: National Park entrance fee (which should be paid locally in the national currency), transportation back to your hotel

Age restriction: Minimum 7 years old

Note: Altitude: 2.400.- m.a.s.l. This excursion does not visit Marte Valley

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Day 3 Day 3: Atacama Tours: Tatio Geysers & Machuca
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Atacama Tours: Tatio Geysers & Machuca

Very early in the morning, we will pick you up at your hotel to visit one of the highest geyser fields in the world.

Located in the Andes Mountains, 61 miles from San Pedro de Atacama and 4,320 meters above sea level, El Tatio (from Kunza "tata-iu") means "The Grandfather Who Cries." It is the largest group of geysers in the southern hemisphere and the third-largest in the world, after Yellowstone (USA) and Dolina Giezerow (Russia). At dawn, with freezing temperatures, you can see a fantastic spectacle, generated by violent steam flows that rise up to 10 meters high with temperatures reaching 85°C.

After visiting the geysers, you can enjoy a natural pool with thermal water.

We will also visit Machuca, a small Atacamenian village located more than 4,000 meters above sea level, where its few inhabitants are mainly dedicated to grazing and cheese production. Very close to the place is the Salt Lake, where families of flamingos, ducks, and seagulls live with a landscape of imposing beauty.

On the return trip, it is possible to observe fauna such as vicuñas, llamas, rheas, vizcachas, etc. While in the Flora, the Giant Cactus, llaretas, coirón, etc., stand out.

When we arrive in San Pedro de Atacama, we will leave you downtown, from where you will go on your own to the hotel.

Type of service: Shared

Duration: 7/8 h

Included: Transportation mentioned above, bilingual driver-guide (Spanish/English), breakfast

Not included: Entrance fee to Geiser del Tatio

Difficulty: Moderate to hard (due to the altitude), walking on a flat surface

Age restriction: Minimum 12 years. Pregnant women, people with hypertension, edema, or embolism only with medical authorization

Note: Altitude: 4.320.- m.s.n.m. approximately. There is no infrastructure in the place. We recommend you to take warm clothes (temperature between -5°C and -20°C), closed or trekking shoes, hat, gloves, swimming suit, towel, flip flops, sunglasses, sunblock and water
Day 4 Day 4: Uyuni Tours: 4Wd Adventure
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Uyuni Tours: 4Wd Adventure

Today you will start the 3-day adventure from the Atacama Desert to the Uyuni Salt flats through fantastic landscapes contrasted by the blue sky above mountains, volcanoes, and geysers.

You will be picked up from your hotel in San Pedro de Atacama, make Chilean migration at customs, and then we will start driving to Hito Cajon which is the border between Chile and Bolivia, where you will make another migration to enter Bolivian territory.

After having breakfast and changing to a jeep 4x4, the adventure begins!! We will first visit the White Lagoon and the Green Lagoon which are located at the feet of Licancabur Volcano.

We continue driving north to the Salvador Dali Desert. Then continue to the Polques Hot Spring, Geysers of Morning Sun at 5000 meters, where we can bathe in the thermal waters before having lunch.

We will then continue to the spectacular Red Lagoon where you can appreciate thousands of flamingos. At the end of the day, we will go to a hostal of the Community Mallku Villa Mar which is

at a height of 3500 meters, where we will have dinner and spend the night.

Please note that in January and February the company keeps the right to change the route of the itinerary in Bolivia, since its Altiplanic weather.

On this day you are visiting a National Reserve. Please remember that National Park Fees are not included. Check at the bottom of your itinerary for the corresponding fee, which should be paid in cash in the national currency.

Type of Service: Shared

Included: Bilingual guide, breakfast on the road, lunch & dinner
Day 5 Day 5: Wd Adventure To Salt Hotel
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Wd Adventure To Salt Hotel

We will start early in the morning visiting cave paintings and the Valley of the Rocks, where you can see formations like the lost city of Italy, the World Cup, the Camel, etc. Then we will visit the Black Lagoon, where you will appreciate a lot of wildlife like Tawas altiplánica or geese and vegetation according to the ecosystem, or Catal Lagoon (Laguna

Misteriosa), Canyon Catal.

After lunch, we will continue to Waterfall Agua Dulce viewpoint, and head to a valley inhabited by many highland communities. These communities are engaged in raising Andean animals such as llamas and alpacas.

The day ends with the arrival at the community of Villa Candelaria, at the salt hotel, where we will spend the night. Accommodation in double or triple room.

Type of Service: Shared

Included: Bilingual guide, breakfast, lunch & dinner
Day 6 Day 6: Wd Adventure To Uyuni
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Wd Adventure To Uyuni

We will start at 5:00 AM driving to Incahuasi Island, located in the middle of Uyuni Salt Flat, to observe the sunrise. Then we will visit the Hotel de

Playa Blanca, a hotel totally built by blocks of salt. We continue with our route until we reach the Ojos del Salar and the Montones de Sal. We will arrive at the Community of Colchani, where we will be able to observe the artisan process extraction of salt consumed by the entire country of Bolivia.

After lunch, our last stop is at Train Cemetery for taking amazing pictures! The tour ends at the city of Uyuni, Bolivia, at approximately 03:00pm.

Type of Service: Shared

Included: Bilingual guide, breakfast & lunch

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Itinerary of your trip Discover The Salt Desert (Adventure Trip)

Day 1: San Pedro De Atacama - Travel To Chile

Day 2: San Pedro De Atacama - Half Day Half-Day Rainbow Valley & Moon Valley Tour

Day 3: Atacama Tours: Tatio Geysers & Machuca

Day 4: Uyuni Tours: 4Wd Adventure

Day 5: Wd Adventure To Salt Hotel

Day 6: Wd Adventure To Uyuni

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