Trip StyleIndependent

Atacama Desert Experience

4 days ex San Pedro De Atacama

Trip Code: TSCAXC

Santiago, San Pedro de Atacama.

Welcome to the driest place on earth. Explore a desert 50 times drier than California's Death Valley, where salt lakes stretch for miles and mummies are preserved for millennia—the Atacama's predate Egyptian mummies by 2000 years! Add to this a bizarre combination of high altitude wetlands and volcanoes, and you've got a mix like nowhere on earth.

Day 1 Calama/San Pedro

You are met at the airport and taken to the hotel before exploring San Pedro, one of the driest environments on earth. Enjoy fascinating displays of mummified objects and some excellent bird-spotting opportunities at San Pedro de Atacama. In Arica, examine gigantic, ancient geoglyphs and petroglyphs.

Day 2-3 San Pedro (B,L)

Spend the next two days exploring San Pedro. The Atacama is not only the driest, but also the highest desert on earth. For this reason, the year-round climate is pleasant and the transparency of light is unique. The outlandish geography of volcanoes, salt flats and high altitude wetlands has an unparalleled appeal and can be found nowhere else on earth.

Day 4 San Pedro/Calama (B,L)

Perhaps venture out on your last quick exploration of San Pedro before checking out of the hotel to be taken to Calama's airport.

NB - Flights should be booked after 6:30pm.