Landscapes, Flora & Fauna

Landscapes, Flora & Fauna

This packaged program includes four days in Easter Island with the following transfer services/tours: Transfer in and out from Santiago airport to Santiago Hotel day 1, 2 and 5; half day walking tour at Hanga Roa town; full day trekking excursion at Poike volcano and full day excursion at Te Moai Circuit (most important places of the Moai worship) with local tour guides during the full program. Also, one or two days for optional tours in Central Chile of Santiago are possible or you can combine this tour with other Northern Chile or North or South Patagonia tours.

Transfer from Pt. Arenas to Puerto Natales; tour Torres del Paine and Bernardo O’Higgins National Parks; and Grey, Serrano & Balmaceda Glaciers; Ottway Penguin Colony; and transfer to Pt. Arenas. (If time permits, can add Pt. Arenas City Tour.)

This packaged program includes four days in Easter Island with the following tours: Archeology Tour at Hanga Roa, Discover The Moais at Rapa Nui, and Manutara & Topknots The Fallen Giants of Rapa Nui; also, two days for optional tours in Central Chile, and all airport / hotel transfers.

Join a semi-private excursion by motor coach along the scenic Lake Llanquihue and into the Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park to Lake Todos los Santos (All Saints Lake). Board a catamaran to navigate to Peulla, with time there for an optional lunch or adventure excursion, before returning via catamaran and coach.

Nowhere on Earth is better for stargazing than Chile’s Atacama Desert, where super-observatories have opened up to a wave of astro-tourists seeking unpolluted skies. Please note: The tour does not operate on full-moon nights.

Early morning start to reach Geysers del Tatio; enjoy the beauty along with breakfast; visit Pozon Rustico and a swim; stop at Machuca village. Then see San Santiago Church and return to San Pedro.

Visit Geysers del Tatio with breakfast; take a swim in the thermal waters of Pozon Rustico; stop at the village of Machuca, an ancient settlement of llama herders. After lunch, visit archaeological sites, including Pukara de Quitor and the village of Tulor.

Visit Valled de la Luna (Valley of the Moon(, in the middle of the arid salt mountain range, a landscape of salt and clay shaped by water and wind over millions of years.

See the flamingos of the great Salar de Atacama in Los Flamencos National Reserve in the Chaxa lagoon; visit the highland lagoons of Miscanti and Miñiques at the base of volcanoes; enjoy lunch in the pre-Inca village of Socaire; and visit the town of Toconao.

Visit Magellanic penguin colony on Otway Sound as they gather to nest and raise their young. Enjoy the commerce, landscape, flora and fauna of the area, also.