363 - Santiago, Atacama, Torres del Paine & Skorpios III

12-night tour to enjoy Santiago, Atacama and the best of Patagonia with cruise!
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Santiago, Atacama, Torres del Paine & Skorpios III Cruise!

Great option if you have 12 nights, because is a perfect combination of Santiago de Chile, with its modernity and rich culture, with Atacama desert with incredible landscapes and unique places, and with the best of Patagonia in Torres del Paine National Park and the incredible Skorpios III and the Kaweskar Route. The program promise culture, local dishes, great gastronomy, wine, vienyards, wineries, high Andes, nice cities like Viña del Mar and Valparaiso, colorful landscapes, hotsprings, volcanoes, tatyo geysers, incredible mountains in Torres del Paine, beautiful landscapes of Patagonia, fjords, channels, islas and islets, glaciers, and unforgettable disembarkations in zodiacs. Yes, it´s an amazing tour you can do in only 12 nights. Take a look to our day by day itinerary, it´s just a suggested program. We can make changes.

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Itinerary

Day 1

SANTIAGO DE CHILE: Arrival to the capital city

Arrival to Santiago Merino Airport, in Santiago de Chile. The Chilean capital has become a good choice for international business travelers, developing a reputation as a calm and clean city with a good quality of life. It`s one of the most important and populated cities in South America. Most government activities take place in Santiago’s downtown area, which is home to La Moneda (the presidential palace), Plaza de Armas, and the Judicial and Executive Branches. There are also many museums and shopping malls.Districts such as Providencia, Bellavista, Las Condes, and Vitacura offer a dazzling array of businesses, shops, and restaurants as well as a bustling nightlife.

Chile's Flag Santiago is also located near many attractions such as the beach house of poet Pablo Neruda, Isla Negra, ski resorts located around 60 km from the city, spots in the Andean foothills like Cajón del Maipo, the port of Valparaíso, which is about an hour from Santiago, and Viña del Mar and other summer resorts on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Options for enjoying the mountains and sea are always right at your fingertips in Santiago.

After arrival, transfer to your hotel and check in. Free time for to rest, or may be if you`re interested, you can book any of the optional activities below

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Day 2

SANTIAGO DE CHILE: Enjoying the best of the capital city

After breakfast, in the morning, our guide will be waiting for us for our first visit. We will enjoy a city tour to discover one of the most modern capitals of South America.

Santiago is a cosmopolitan and vibrant capital that perfectly combines tradition and modernity. The tour will allow you to know the origins of the city and emblematic places like the Cathedral, the Post Office, the Plaza de Armas, and the famous Palacio de la Moneda, the house of the Chilean government. You will discover the traditional neighborhoods of the historic center. We visit Santa Lucía hill, called Huelén by the natives, a real urban oasis in the heart of the center. Learn more about the history of Chile and enjoy privileged views of the capital and the mountains surrounding the city. The second part of the tour will take you to the east, to see the financial area of Santiago, and watch modern buildings. Duration is around 4 hours. Return to the hotel and free time.
Please note, there are many optional activities available for the afternoon. Check options below

Day 3

SANTIAGO DE CHILE: Visiting Viña del Mar and Valparaiso

After breakfast, our guide will be waiting for you to start our visit to Viña del Mar and Valparaiso, in the direction to Chile`s coast. We drive through the country’s main wine- producing areas, so we can admire the vineyard-covered landscapes along the way which is fascinating.  We will stop to take some great photos of this important area.  Again in the route we will continue to the coastal road known as the Camino de la Pólvora, arriving at Valparaíso, considered the cultural capital of Chile and full of colors and unique views of the pier and the city over the hill. We will visit the Muelle Prat, a historic dock filled with dozens of colorful boats. From Plaza Sotomayor, the main gateway to Valparaíso from the sea, you’ll immerse yourself in the old quarter, declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage Place.

We will visit the House-Museum of Pablo Neruda, called as La Sebastiana. You’ll then reach Paseo 21 de Mayo, a natural viewpoint at the bottom of the Artillería Hill, where you’ll be able to take in a panoramic view of Valparaíso’s view from the blue sea to the city and the surrounding mountains.

Our next step is the visit to the city of Viña del Mar, whose name in Spanish means “Vineyard of the Sea”. The coastal town is also often called the Garden City, and you’ll soon see why when you visit sights such as the iconic Flower Clock on the side of Castle Hill. Free time for lunch and then, some free time to enjoy the beach, after return to your hotel in Santiago de Chile.

 

Day 4

SANTIAGO: Good bye Santiago!

After breakfast, free time to enjoy the city until your transfer to the airport. If you leave the city in the afternoon or evening, you can choose any of our optional activities you can see below.

Goodbye Santiago!

SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA: Arrival to the incredible chilean north

Arrival to Calama Airport or San Pedro bus station and transfer to San Pedro de Atacama. During the way you will see amazing colorful landscapes, passing through the Cordillera de la Sal (Salt Chain). Arrival to San Pedro and transfer to your hotel for check in. Free time. But, if you arrived early, you can choose from any of the following options which are great to start visiting the incredible north of Chile.

 

 

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Day 5

SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA: Visting Toconao, the Highland Lagoons and Atacama Salt Flat

After breakfast and early in the morning, we will start one of the most amazing excursions in the area, to enjoy unique landscapes. We leave for the Highland Miñique and Miscanti Lagoons. We will go along the road to Toconao making a brief stop to visit the main plaza and church of this small village. Thenk, we will do a a short visit to the farming village of Socaire to see some agricultural practices. After that, we will continue our tour to ascend the Andes Chain to reach the Miscanti and Meñiques Lagoons with an incredible and unique deep blue color and white shores. Be ready with your camera to take hundred of photos. This place is unique. These lagoons are located in the Los Flamencos National Reserve. Some free time for lunch in Socaire.

After lunch, we will continiue our tour, to arrive to the Atacama Salt Flat located in the Los Flamencos National Reserve. This is the largest salt deposit in Chile, and one of the most importants in South America. It was formed into a depression with no water outlet. In Chaxa Lagoon, we have an abundance of bird species, especially the well known flamingos which are a real attraction. After many additional photos and some free time to enjoy the landscape, we return to  San Pedro de Atacama to rest and go to bed early. Next day is one of the largest, starting very early in the morning.

Free time and overnight in San Pedro.

Day 6

SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA: Tatyo Geysers & Puritama Hot Springs

Wake up eary in the morning, for a quick breakfast and be ready around 4 am to start an incredible unique experience in the chilean north. It`s the visit to Tatyo Geysers. We have aproximetely 3 hours to arrive to the area, so arrival to the geysers would be around 7 am in the morning. We arrange a picnic breakfast there. Our guide will lead our trip to discover this geothermal field and see the incredible tatyo geysers and pools of boiling water and mud. We will have free time there to enjoy this unique place on earth.

On the way back we make a stop to visit the small shelters village of Machuca, the attractive of this place are some interesting local meals, like the home made empanadas, sopaipillas, skewers, coffee, tea or coca tea. Then, we will go to the Puritama Hot Springs. Once there, we can enjoy these warms waters that emanate from beneath the rocks and surrounding vegetation. Free time to enjoy the hot springs until return to our hotel in San Pedro de Atacama.

Day 7

SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA: Good bye incredible north!

After breakfast, free time to enjoy San Pedro until your transfer to Calama Airport or San Pedro bus station. If you have some free time in the day, because you leave in the afternoon or evening, you can add any of our optional activities you can find below.

Good bye Atacama!

PUERTO NATALES: Arrival to the Ultima Esperanza Sound

Arrival to Puerto Natales bus station or Punta Arenas Airport and transfer to your hotel in Puerto Natales. The city is located at the opening of Ultima Esperanza Sound, and from here you will visit amazing places sush as Torres del Paine National Park or Balmaceda and Serrano Glaciers. After check in, free time to enjoy walking the city, or just rest to be ready for the next day.

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Day 8

PUERTO NATALES: Excursion to Torres del Paine National Park

After breafkst, we will start one of the best excursions you can do in Patagonia. Yes, it`s the visit to Torres del Paine National Park. So, after picking up all the passengers from their accommodations, the tour starts around 8:00 am ready to take the first pictures. Our first destination is Milodon’s Cave, the place where in 1895were found remains of a prehistoric animal, and nowadays there is a replica of that mammal together with detailed information of the glaciological process of how the cave was formed.
After this, we will go to Cerro Castillo to have a short break and enjoy snack services, coffee shops and souvenir stores.

From that point, we will go to Torres del Paine Park where the first natural sceneries we will see are: Sarmiento Lake Lookout, Paine’s towers, Paine’s horns and Almirante Nieto Hill. Regarding fauna, the most predominant animals you will see are guanacos, lesser rhea and condors, considering that in the park also live foxes, hares, rufous-collared sparrow and the lion of America: the mountain cat.

Inside the park we will know the turquoise lakes such as Pehoé and Nordenskjold, waterfalls and mountains covered in ice. A walk of 15 minutes is necessary to get close to Salto Grande waterfall.

After lunch, the visit continues with a walk along the shore of the Grey Lake from where you can see small icebergs and at the back the great Grey glacier. Depending on the needs, the return can be on the same route or else using the new road and leave you at you accommodation place. Free time and overnight

Day 9

PUERTO NATALES: Choice of activitites available!

After breakfast, we keep the day free, so you can choose any of the optional activities you can find in the list below.

Day 10

PUERTO NATALES: Good bye Ultima Esperanza Sound!

After breakfast, fee time to enjoy Puerto Natales until your transfer to the bus station or Punta Arenas Airport to continue with your itinerary.

Remember to add an unforgettable Cruise Expedition aboard Skorpios III Cruise and visit southern glaciers and fjords in the Chilean Patagonia!

 

SKORPIOS III - PUERTO NATALES: Embarkation and departure

Passenger reception starts at 17.15 hrs and after that, we will take a safety speech about the vessel. You´re aboard the Skorpios III Cruise to enjoy an unforgettable expedition cruise to the southern channels and fjords of Patagonia.  Departure from Puerto Natales will be between 17.30 hrs. and 18.00 hrs. We start sailing through Angostura Kirke, Morla, Vicuña, Unión, Collingwood, and Sarmiento channels. It´s our first day. Relax with the views and be ready to enjoy dinner aboard.

 

Day 11

SKORPIOS III - Enjoy El Brujo and Amalia Glaciers!

On our second day, we will arrive at Amalia Glacier around 8 am. So be ready after your breakfast, because your cruise will approach the glacier and you will enjoy an incredible experience. First, we will enjoy a panoramic view from the ship, and around 09.30 am, we will disembark on a nearby beach, to start soft hiking through the beach, to learn more about local flora, fauna, and rocks,  and arriving at a viewpoint where we can appreciate this beautiful glacier.

After that, and around 11.30 am, we will start navigation to El Brujo Glacier. Around 2 pm and if weather and ice permitting, passengers can disembark and contemplate this incredible glacier from a nearby rock.

Around 3,30 pm we sail to the amazing Calvo Fjord.  and around 5 pm we will arrive at Calvo Fjord and start excursion aboard the “Capitán Constantino” icebreaker, an appropriate ship to navigate in the iced waters. We visit the Fernando, Capitán Constantino, and Alipio glaciers, among others. Around 8 pm we sail towards Montañas Fjord. We complete a full day of activities enjoying this incredible place of Patagonia. Be ready for dinner and overnight.

 

 

Day 12

SKORPIOS III CRUISE: Enjoying more glaciers and fjords of Patagonia!

After breakfast, and around 9 am, we will visit Montañas Fjord, from where we can see four amazing glaciers, that slide down the Sarmiento Mountains to the sea, two of them are on our route.

After that, around 09.30 am, we will visit Alsina Glacier. Again, we will disembark to enjoy an excursion on our boats, to explore this small bay and its glacier, enjoying its beauty and enormous mountains surrounding the area. At 10.30 am approx, we return to Skorpios III and continue sailing through Montañas Fjord toward Bernal Glacier.

At 11.15 am we disembark in Bernal Glacier to initiate a soft walking in a small native forest, and then crossing through a stream, which crosses a glacier water lagoon. Continue soft hiking over front and side moraines until arriving at the glacier. Once there, passengers can feel and touch the ice and appreciate the iceberg melting. You will see ice, ice, and more ice!

12.45 am. Passengers return to the ship, which is in the natural water supplying phase. This water, provided from a cascade, is used onboard for all ship services and around 2 pm, Skorpios III continues sailing through Montañas Fjord. We will be able to see Herman and Zamudio glaciers from the ship. Be ready to take incredible photos!

Around 5.45 pm, we arrive to White angostura. Disembarkation in our zodiacs to sail among island and islets, enjoying the native fauna and flora. Around 7 pm we return to the ship. Free time to be ready for the Captain’s dinner arouund 9 pm.  Farewell Party. Captain’s Dinner and dance. Navigation through Almirante Montt gulf.

 

 

Day 13

SKORPIOS III CRUISE: Return to Puerto Natales

On our last day, we will arrive in Puerto Natales between 02.00 hrs. and 07.00 hrs. depending on wind conditions, to reach Skorpios Terminal back in Puerto Natales

Between 8 and 9,30 am, and after breakfast, passengers are ready for disembarkation in Puerto Natales Terminal.

Note: The program and schedules may change depending on weather conditions or force majeure. Also, disembarkations will depend on the authorization of the captain of the ship who will evaluate the safety and ice conditions of each place. Timings of lectures and activities will be informed during the sailing.

If you continue with us, in an organized tour, we will transfer you to the airport in Punta Arenas, or hotel in Puerto Natales, or Puerto Natales bus station, to continue with your itinerary. If you only booked the cruise, end of our services. 

End of our services. We can personalize your program, by adding or deleting nights, add new destinations, or make any necessary change. Just let us know. Optional activities you can see below each day, are just suggested options. You can add any of these activities to your quotation, or ask for any other available in each destination.

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EASTER ISLAND EXTENSION PROGRAM

Enjoy one of the most incredible places you can visit in Chile.Easter Island is a World Heritage Site by Unesco and a unique island with pink sand beaches, incredible culture, volcanoes, and the amazing Moais.

DAY 1 – Welcome to Rapa Nui, welcome to Easter Island
DAY 2 – Enjoy Ahu Akahanga, Rano Raraku Ahu Tongariki, Ahu Te Pito Kura and Anakena Beach!
DAY 3 – Visit Ana Kai Tangata, Orongo, Ahu Akivi and the 7 moais!
DAY 4 – Good bye Easter Island!

This is a suggested program. We can make any change you need.

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PUERTO VARAS & LAKES DISTRICT

Enjoy a wonderful extension to visit Puerto Varas and the Lakes District in Chile. Lakes, mountains, forests, national parks, volcanoes and culture. Enjoy a basic 3-night program to see the best of this area:

DAY 1 – Arrival to Puerto Varas!
DAY 2 – Visit to Frutillar and Puerto Octay
DAY 3 – Enjoy Chiloe Island!
DAY 4 – Good bye Puerto Varas!

This is just a basic program, we can add or delete nights, or modify activities in the area. There are many adventure activities available!

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