Destination: Buenos aires, Salta, San Pedro De Atacama, Santiago & Viña Del Mar

Duration: 11 Days / 10 Nights


Detailed Itinerary:

Day 1
Arrival in Buenos Aires: Half Day City Tour (-)

Upon arrival, our collaborators offer a welcoming reception and will transfer you to the hotel. A documentation kit, detailed program explanation plus luggage and hotel registration assistance is offered. In the afternoon, Buenos Aires City tour. Get acquainted with Buenos Aires during this tour highlighting the city’s major neighbourhoods and attractions. Among the points of interest you will see are Main Square Plaza de Mayo surrounded by the Casa Rosada (Presidential Headquarters Office), the Cabildo (Colonial Town Hall) and the Cathedral. You will also drive through the charming streets of San Telmo and down the colorful roads of La Boca, famous for its multicolor tin houses. Later, drive through elegant Barrio Norte on your way to the Recoleta Cemetery, an amazing aboveground cemetery lined with mausoleums and statues. Finally, visit Palermo and its magnificent mansions and parks.

Overnight in Buenos Aires.

Day 2
Free day (B)

Day at leisure for personal activities.

Overnight in Buenos Aires.
  
Optional:
Full Day Gaucha at Santa Susana (beverages included) – Duration: 8 hrs (SIB)

This is a visit to a typical "estancia" of the Argentine wet pampas, one of the most fertile natural prairies of the world and famous for its meat and cereal production.
The guest will be received with "empanadas", "asado", good Argentine wines, and will be able to enjoy folkloric songs, dances and show of Creole.
Enjoy the flavour of our “pampas” at a touristy ranch located 110 km away from down-town Buenos Aires.
You will be welcomed with meat pies (typical “empanadas”), a glass of wine or juices by the owners and served an argentine B.B.Q. After lunch, a folkloric Gaucho’s Show will be performed and you will have the possibility of appreciating the typical “Ring Race” (Carrera de Sortijas) or ride on horseback.

Tango Show - Duration: 2 1/2 hours approx. / Dinner & Tango Show - Duration 4 1/2 hours approx.

The Café Los Angelitos Tango House, offer the possibility of admiring all qualities of tango in its different expressions. First category of tango dancers and singers as well as a tango orchestras, will let you enjoy and feel this particular Buenos Aires music at its utmost while having a drink or a wonderful dinner. Born around 1880, the tango was the vulgar dance and music of the capital’s "arrabales" or lower class neighbourhoods, blending gaucho verse with Spanish and Italian music. Carlos Gardel, the best representative of Tango music and singers, created the "tango-cancion" (tango song), taking it out from the brothels and tenements and into the salons of Buenos Aires. In the late 19th century the "Great Village of Buenos Aires" was becoming an immigrant city, where frustrated and melancholic Europeans displaced gaucho rustics, who retreated gradually to the ever more distant countryside. The children of those immigrants would become the first generation of “porteños”, and the tango-song summarized the new urban style.
Permeated with nostalgia over a disappearing way of life, the tango-show expressed the apprehensions and anxieties of individuals, ranging from mundane pastimes like horse racing and other popular diversions to more profound feelings towards the changing landscape of neighbourhood and community, the figure of the mother, betrayal by women, and friendship or other important personal concerns.

Day 3
Salta: Half Day City Tour (B)

At schedule time, transfer to the airport to take your flight to Salta. Upon arrival, reception and transfer to your hotel. In the afternoon, City tour in Salta. Situated in a very fertile valley, that still bears the founder's name "Lerma", is, of all the provincial capitals, the city that has best preserved its patrimony of colonial architecture, such as the San Bernardo Convent, the San Francisco Church, and the Cabildo (city hall) with its graceful row of arches. During this half day tour you will have the opportunity of visiting these and other important sites.

Overnight in Salta.

Day 4
Full Day Humahuaca (B)

Full day tour to Humahuaca Gorge visiting Purmamarca, typical village from where one of the most colorful and beautiful landscapes of the north-west, surrounded by green trees and mud brick-houses, can be appreciated: Seven Colors Mountain. Going up we shall reach the Pucara de Tilcara: although in "quechua" language Pucara means fortress, it really used to be an "omoguaca" (aborigines who inhabited this place during the X Century) village. During the way back to Salta, there will be a visit to Jujuy city, capital of Jujuy Province.

Overnight in Salta.

Day 5
Free day (B)

Day at leisure for personal activities.

Overnight in Salta.

Optional:
Full Day Cachi

From Salta going south one passes ancient sites in order to enter the Cuesta del Obispo in its highland setting. The road begins to ascend zigzagging upwards to the Piedra del Molino (Mill stone) at 3600 meters above sea level. On the left is a route to the Valle Encantado (Enchanted Valley) with its special configurations. Later the Recta del Tin- Tin is reached, a straight road, which has existed since pre-hispanic times. The Nevado de Cachi can just be discerned in silent vigil over the valley towns of Payogasta and Cachi. Towards the south are Seclantas, and Molinos: the plan of the town is completely irregular, with houses made of adobe and roofs of clay, mud and straw big arcades and porticos. The town excels as a historical monument, because it was built in 1639, with its church and the inn. The "cardon" can be seen, it is a giant cactus that thrives at an altitude of between 6500 and 11500 feet and which fruit fed the indigenous population in times gone by. Its abundance in the area is such that it has given its name to the National park and where vicuñas and lamas run free. Return to Salta.

Full Day Cafayate

The trip departs from Salta to the South, with tobacco plantations to the right and to the left hand. Continuing, we will cross the Quebrada del Río Las Conchas or Quebrada de Cafayate, with spectacular and natural formations like the amphitheater, characterized by its particular acoustics. We will finally arrive into Cafayate, where we will have a special sightseeing of the town and its wine cellars, that produce the "torrontés", a typical Argentinean white fruity wine.

Day 6
San Pedro de Atacama: Half Day Shapes of the dawn, Moon Valley (B)

At schedule time, transfer to the bus station to take your bus to San Pedro de Atacama (through Jama Pass) only Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. At arrival, meet and transfer to your hotel. In the afternoon, visit to Shapes of The Dawn, Moon Valley. Visit a place with beautiful shapes and colors located at 8km from San Pedro de Atacama, where we can walk and enjoy a great geological spectacle that has been repeatedly compared with the surface of the moon, with its angular geology and rocks sculpted by millenniums of erosion. Visit the salt caverns before climbing the mayor sand dune where we can marvel at the kaleidoscope of colors that appear over the Andes at sunset. Return to Hotel.

Overnight in San Pedro de Atacama.

Day 7
Half Day Toconao & Atacama Saltflat (B)

We will visit the Toconao town located at 2,475 meters of altitude. It is an oasis, in where people cultivate all types of fruit. In front of its square are the Church and Bell tower of San Lucas, declared a National Monument. It occupies an extension of 100 kilometers in length by 80 of wide. The salt is product of the underground water outcrop that, saturated of salts, evaporates leaving scabs rich in salt and minerals. The rivers fed by Andean snows traverse the area allowing the creation of multiple oasis’s. This is the place where the “Atacameño” culture was developed. The air is extraordinarily dry here, which gives it a perfect transparency. The salt scab has been opened to leave space to small lagoons that are favorite habitat of aquatic birds, particularly Flamingoes, Taguas and Guallatas. The most important is the Chaxa lagoon. The Atacama saltlake is located in the center of the most barren desert of the world. Salt fields and salt lakes are abundant in this place. It is well-known for its strong winds due to its proximity with the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains. We will continue our tour by the great Atacama saltflat, which has a surface of 12,000 km2 and of immense beauty. We will have the opportunity to admire the great variety of flamingoes and migratory birds that have found in the enormous salt their natural habitat; these birds provide a very peculiar atmosphere to the sector. Here we will be able to find a great amount of salt similar to ocean salt; this phenomenon has allowed diverse animals like reptiles, insects and birds live here. At the end of this trip we will admire a spectacular sunset, enjoying the silence and the peace of the salt before returning to the hotel.

Overnight in San Pedro de Atacama.

Day 8
Free Day (B)

Day at leisure for personal activities.

Overnight in San Pedro de Atacama.

Optional:
Full Day Daybreak Up In The El Tatio Geysers

Early morning departure for an excursion to El Tatio Geysers, a geothermal field flanked by soaring Andean peaks. At just under 14,000', this is one of the higher geyser fields in the world. At dawn, powerful spurts of steam erupt out of the ground through various blowholes, and the vision of the steaming geysers against the deep blue desert sky may be one of your most enduring memories of your visit here. Short hikes through the geothermal field. Return to San Pedro de Atacama.

Day 9
Santiago: Half Day Panoramic City Tour with Cerro San Cristobal (B)

At schedule time, transfer to the airport to take your flight to Santiago. Upon arrival, meet and transfer to your hotel. In the afternoon, departing from our hotel, we drive to the civic center of Santiago to visit the Government Palace of La Moneda. We continue through the financial area and then we visit the heart of Santiago and the center of social life, the Main Square (Plaza de Armas) which is surrounded by historical buildings such as the Metropolitan Cathedral, the main post office, and the National Historical Museum. Afterwards we will drive through the Barrio Bellavista with its many cultural activities, art galleries, theaters, restaurants and dance halls proceeding to the Cerro San Cristóbal, a very well-known recreational area with a fantastic view of the city.

Overnight in Santiago.

Day 10
Full Day Valparaíso and Viña del Mar (B)

Departing in the early morning from Santiago, we pass through the beautiful Casablanca Valley to reach the magical port of Valparaíso, dubbed a World Heritage site by UNESCO. We drive through the picturesque hills to visit “La Sebastiana“, poet Pablo Neruda’s home with a unique ocean view that inspired his writings. After this, we continue our tour along the coast to enjoy a panoramic view of the city of Viña del Mar. Return to Santiago.

Overnight in Santiago.

Day 11
International departure flight (B)

At schedule time, transfer to the airport to take your international departure flight.

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