ITINERARY

• 01 Santiago
  

  • Overview
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  Depart from India on your scheduled flight to Santiago.

  Novotel Providencia

• 02 Santiago
  

  • Overview
  • Accommodation

  On arrival, you will be met by your local guide and transferred to your hotel. Enjoy today at leisure.

  Night at the hotel.

  Novotel Providencia

• 03 Santiago
  

  • Overview
  • Accommodation
  • Meals

  Following breakfast your guide will take you on a half-day city tour of Santiago, visiting the main attractions of this charming capital city. Beginning at the Government Palace, you will then continue to the main square 'Plaza de Armas', known as the heart and soul of Santiago and the centrepiece of the city's grid pattern layout. Next stroll around Santa Lucia Hill, a beautifully landscaped park where back in 1833 Charles Darwin once proclaimed that the view from here is 'certainly most striking'. Finish your tour with visits to the exclusive residential neighbourhoods of Vitacura and Las Condes, then return to your hotel for some time to rest and relax.

  Night at the hotel.

  Includes: Breakfast

  Novotel Providencia

  breakfast included

• 04 Santiago - San Pedro De Atacama
  

  • Overview
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  This morning you will be transferred to Santiago airport for your flight to Calama, a city in northern Chile's Atacama Desert. Considered to be the archaeological capital of Chile as well as the centre of Atacama culture, San Pedro's people once roamed this vast expanse of desert which is thought to be the driest place on planet Earth.

  Night at the hotel.

  Includes: Breakfast

  Casa de Don Tomas

  breakfast included

• 05 San Pedro De Atacama
  

  • Overview
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  • Meals

  An early start takes you to the Tatio Geysers, situated on the highest geothermal field, some 4,300 metres above sea level in the Andean Mountain range. Ringed by volcanoes, over 80 gurgling geysers shoot steam fumaroles reaching 50 metres in height of multiple vibrant colors; a dazzling spectacle to behold. Admire the varied fauna, such as the vicuna, the smallest of the six species of camelid which has adapted itself to survive in the extreme and inhospitable climate of the Andes. In the evening your group will travel to Valle de la Luna to watch the sunset from this exquisite viewing point.

  Night at the hotel.

  Includes: Breakfast

  Casa de Don Tomas

  Breakfast included

• 06 San Pedro De Atacama - Ojo De Perdiz
  

  • Overview
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  • Meals

  After breakfast you will begin your journey to the Bolivian Salt Flats via 4x4 jeeps to experience a full-day tour of this incredible landscape. The first stop will be at the Emerald Green Lagoon in the Eduardo Avaroa Reserve whose colour is caused by the moving sediments containing copper minerals. Then continue to the hot springs of Polques where you will have the chance to bathe before carrying on to the geysers of Sol de Manana to marvel at the pools of boiling mud emitting pressurised steam.

  Night at the hotel.

  Includes: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.

  Tayka Del Desierto or similar

  Breakfast , Lunch & Dinner included

• 07 Ojo De Perdiz - Uyuni Salt Flats
  

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  This morning travel to a chain of beautiful lagoons home to three different kinds of flamingo. Lunch will be served on the shores of the lagoon before continuing across the salt flats to this evening’s unique stay – a hotel built entirely of salt blocks!

  Night at the hotel.

  Includes: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.

  Palacio de Sal or similar

  Breakfast , Lunch &Dinner included

• 08 Uyuni Salt Flats
  

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  This morning journey to Isla Incahuasi, one of the main destinations within Uyuni Salt Flats. It was once a real island before the prehistoric lakes dried up, leaving a hilly outpost covered in hundreds of tall cacti growing haphazardly out of the ragged surface. Reach the top of the island and find your camera to take a panoramic shot of the 360-degree views over this spectacular sight. From here you will continue to see pyramids of salt piled on the land by salt miners who harvest the area for its lucrative minerals.

  Night at the hotel.

  Includes: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

  Palacio de Sal or similar

  Breakfast ,Lunch &Dinner included

• 09 Uyuni Salt Flats - La Paz
  

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  Depart the salt flats today after breakfast and transfer to Uyuni airport for your flight to La Paz, located 3,600 metres above sea level and known as 'the city that touches the sky'. Discover this dizzying city on a half-day tour, visiting the main square, Plaza Murillo, the historic centre of La Paz and home to the Cathedral and Presidential Palace. Next continue to the 16th century San Francisco church whose mestizo baroque facade features carvings of masks, dragons and tropical birds. Take the stone tunnel stairway to the roof for views across the city's skyline, then visit the charming colonial street of Calle Jaen. Finally, the tour arrives at Valle de la Luna - a dramatic change of scenery where erosion has produced stony forms resembling the moon.

  Night at the hotel.

  Includes: Breakfast.

  La Casona Boutique or similar

  Breakfast included

• 10 La Paz - Puno
  

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  Today you will travel by coach to Desaguadero to cross the border between Bolivia and Peru and arrive in Puno city. From there, travelling by motorboat, visit the floating Uros Islands, constructed entirely by the buoyant reeds that grow plentifully in the lake below. Meet the Uros women in their brightly coloured petticoat skirts who will be happy to sell you their charming handicrafts. Continue to your hotel in Puno, by coach, where you will spend the night.

  Night at the hotel.

  Includes: Breakfast.

  La Hacienda Puno or similar

  Breakfast included

• 11 Puno - Cusco
  

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  This morning you will travel from Puno to Cusco by coach and be able to appreciate the surrounding valleys' wonderful landscapes en route. The journey includes a stop at La Raya pass, 4,300 metres above sea level, from where you will be able to take in some amazing vistas of the Andean snow-capped mountains. You will also stop at the Raqchi ruins, known as the Temple of the God Wiracocha, and Andahuaylillas village where there is a beautiful church from the 17th century. Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant before arriving in Cusco and transferring to your hotel.

  Night at the hotel.

  Casa Andina Standard Catedral or similar

  Lunch included

• 12 Cusco
  

  • Overview
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  Today's morning tour of Cusco will introduce you to this amazing colonial city built on the foundation of Inca Palaces. Visit the Temple of the Sun where you can appreciate the incredible masonry of the Incas, the Plaza de Armas and the Cathedral with its carved woodworks, altars and paintings. Later you will drive to the Inca fortress of Sacsayhuaman whose peculiar huge granite stone slabs of up to six metres in length fit perfectly on top of one another. Enjoy an afternoon at leisure to explore the rest of Cusco.

  Night at the hotel.

  Includes: Breakfast.

  Casa Andina Standard Catedral or similar

  Breakfast included

• 13 Cusco - Aguas Calientes - Cusco
  

  • Overview
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  Rise early in the morning to take a train to Aguas Calientes then continue by road to reach one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, the awe-inspiring ruins of Machu Picchu. Only re-discovered in 1911 by the explorer Hiram Bingham, this 500-year-old citadel is considered to be one of the most extraordinary examples of landscaped architecture in the world. Located on the saddle of a mountain, overlooking the deep canyon of the Urubamba River and in an area of lush tropical forest, it served as a place of worship, a site for stargazing and a private hacienda for the family of the Inca Pachacutec.

  Night at the hotel.

  Includes: Breakfast & Lunch.

  Casa Andina Standard Catedral or similar

  Breakfast &Lunch included

• 14 Cusco - Lima
  

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  Following breakfast your guide will transfer you from your hotel to the airport in Cusco for your flight toLima. Known as the 'City of the Kings', today's tour combines the culture of historic downtown Lima with the modern district of Miraflores. You will first visit the main square to see the Cathedral, Government Palace and City Hall. Next see one of the best-preserved monasteries in Lima, the beautiful Santo Domingo Convent and then on to Miraflores, a bustling shopping area with stupendous views of the Pacific Ocean.

  Retire to your hotel for the final night of your journey across Latin America.

  Night at the hotel.

  Includes: Breakfast.

  Casa Andina Standard Miraflores or similar

  Breakfast included

• 15 Lima
  

  • Overview
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  Transfer to Lima airport for your return flight to India.

  Casa Andina Standard Miraflores or similar

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