his program
offers a complete view of the San Pedro de Atacama Oasis,
archaeological capital of Chile and its surroundings,
including in it, traditional routes and others 100% Off
road,
which only our firm offers, combining trekking and photographic
tours where our main objective is to offer a professional and
personalized product.
We will begin our trip visiting Padre Le Paige´s museum
in San Pedro de Atacama, visiting the most important sites of
rock art in Chile, where you will be able to see petrogliphs
and pictogliphs, some of these more than 2,000 years old, made
by the ancient nomads. We will also follow the Inca traces in
Chile, rediscovering the heritage which this empire left in
South America.
We will carry out Overlands in the Altiplano (High Andes) along
routes that go among Volcanoes, some of which are active. We
will go to Andean villages full of indigenous traditions with
beautiful churches which were built at the beginning of the
XVII century. We will visit more than seven different Salt Flats,
including the great Salt Flat of Atacama where you will be able
to bathe in its lagoons and feel the lightness similar to that
of the Dead Sea, due to its high content of salt.
We will also visit other less known Salt Flats, such as that
of Tara and Surire where you will be able to admire the rich
flora and fauna of the Andes. In some of these ecosystems you
can see colonies of more than 2,000 Flamingos of three different
species who live in Chile, as also Camelidae such as the Vicuña,
the Guanaco and the Llama, the only animal used for transport
in the Prehispanic cultures, also used at present.
It also includes a complete route to visit the different Geothermal
fields both in San Pedro de Atacama, and the Geysers of El Tatio,
as also those of the first region of Chile in the Isluga, Suirire
and Lauca National Parks, were you can enjoy the thermal baths
which are not very well known on account of their difficult
access.
You will be able to rediscover the importance which nitrate
had for the development of Chile in a visit to the ex “offices”
(nitrate plants) of Santa Laura and Humberstone. We will visit
Iquique a beautiful port which is well known for its typical
architecture of the XIX century, and where many foreigners who
worked in the extraction of nitrate and the Nitrate Railway
Co. lived. Finally we will complete our trip in Arica, the frontier
city.
Here, it is worth visiting the Archaeological Museum of Azapa,
one of the most complete in Chile and whose mummies are the
oldest in the world. Following, our tour will take us to El
Morro de Arica, which became famous in the Pacific War and the
old ex-customs office which was pre-fabricated in the offices
of Gustave Eifel in Paris.
