Dreamy South America

Santiago

Arrival in Santiago and transfer to the hotel.

Overnight in Santiago.

Santiago – Calama – San Pedro de Atacama

Transfer to the airport for your flight to Calama. Arrival and overland transfer to the hotel in San Pedro de Atacama. In the afternoon, walk through the town.

Overnight in San Pedro de Atacama.

Includes Breakfast

San Pedro de Atacama

The morning is at leisure. In the afternoon, visit the Moon Valley – Valle de la Luna – to enjoy this bizarre, moon-resembling landscape.

Overnight in San Pedro de Atacama.

Includes Breakfast

San Pedro de Atacama

Morning at leisure. We suggest an optional half-day excursion to the Geysers “El Tatio.” The Geysers lie at an altitude of 4,500 m over sea level on the high plateau and give their visitors a spectacular show. You find around 40 Geysers and thermal fountains, all bubbling and sizzling meters high. In the afternoon, overland drive to the Salt Flats of Atacama. On the route, visit the village Toconao, where the houses and church are built out of white volcanic stone, giving this place its own character. Continue to the 3,000 km2 Salt Flats, rich in minerals such as Borax and Lithium and home to different Flamingo species.

Overnight in San Pedro de Atacama.

Includes Breakfast

San Pedro de Atacama – Calama – Santiago

Overland transfer to the airport of Calama for your flight back to Santiago. Upon arrival, transfer to the hotel. In the afternoon, City Tour in Santiago including the historical center and the mountain San Cristóbal, from where you have a splendid view over the city and the close by Andes. Visit the Presidential Palace, La „Moneda“, the main square called Plaza de Armas, the cathedral, the „Palacio de la Real Audiencia“- now home to the History Museum and the “Casa Colonial”- the residence of the governor during the colonial times. Drive through the noble area of Santiago and its elegant stores, very good restaurants, and some futuristic skyscrapers before returning to your hotel.

Overnight in El Calafate.

Includes Breakfast

Santiago

Day at leisure. We suggest an optional tour to Valparaíso & Viña del Mar: Valparaíso, the oldest port of Chile, also where the Congress and the Senate reside in this lively city by the sea. During your City Tour, you visit the Government Buildings, the Plaza Sotomayor, the Plaza Victoria, the cathedral and the port district. High over the city, you find many colorful houses. The upper and lower part of the city are connected through 16 different lifts, which were built around 1900. From Valparaiso, you drive to the beaches of Viña Mar, called the city of gardens due to its many parks and green areas. Viña del Mar is an active city with sand beaches, modern hotels, first-class restaurants, elegant bars, and the Casino, built-in 1932. At sunset return to Santiago.

Overnight in Santiago

Includes Breakfast

Santiago – Mendoza

Transfer to the bus station. Regular bus to Mendoza. Arrival and transfer to your hotel.

Overnight in Mendoza.

Includes Breakfast

Mendoza

In the morning City Tour. A picturesque circuit touring the old and new parts of the city center. Mendoza is most notable for its architectural layout, with wide tree-lined avenues and narrow canals running along the sides guiding water around the city. Transit through the streets, learning about the history and culture of the people and the great effort made to transform the arid desert into a thriving oasis. Our tour begins in the area of the foundational museum, a historical site dating back to 1561 when Don Pedro del Castillo founded the city. The space is currently used as a Plaza with Museum, Jesuit ruins, and vestiges of the city after the earthquake of 1861. Continuing our tour, the main square, home to the Cathedral, the Basilica of St. Francis, the former Banco Hipotecario (now Ministry of Culture and Tourism), the Andean Trade and former Bank of Mendoza (now Contemporary space of art), the Plaza Independencia and España, and the Civic district with Government House and an Enoteca. Later we head down the prestigious street Emilio Civit, a residential area that leads to General San Martin Park - the lung-shaped park of the city. We enter by the famous gates, pass the horses of Marly, Rosedal, and pass the lake until we reach the Cerro de la Gloria, where a Monument to San Martín and his army is located. Then go to Challao, where the Shrine, which venerates the Virgin of Lourdes, lies with spectacular views of the Mendocinian mountains. The afternoon is part of a Wineries Tour: This circuit takes you out of the city and into the wine-making districts of Lujan de Cuyo and Maipu. Here you witness techniques used to irrigate the dry land (canals and ditches) and hear about how the aborigines managed to change a vast desert into a productive oasis. This area is home to prestigious wineries that produce internationally-recognized Argentinean wines. We visit two of these wineries, both still using traditional working methods, together with some of the latest technology. Your tour is accompanied by a wine expert, who explains some of the vinification methods and processes, bottling and labeling of wines, and you can enjoy a tasting of the different wines the vineyards have to offer.

Overnight in Mendoza.

Includes Breakfast

Mendoza – Buenos Aires

Transfer to the airport for the flight to Buenos Aires. Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel. In the afternoon, City Tour, sightseeing to some of the most interesting places of this cosmopolitan city, like: Plaza de Mayo square, the Government House, the Cabildo (Colonial Town Hall), the Metropolitan Cathedral, Avenida de Mayo, the Congress Palace, the Colon Theatre and La Boca, San Telmo, Palermo, and Recoleta neighborhoods. In the evening, Tango Show with Dinner. This evening you will attend an unforgettable tango show performed by the best dancers and singers, while enjoying a delicious meal (drinks included). This is the perfect way to live Buenos Aires, the city of tango. Buenos Aires nightlife provides its own inhabitants and visitors with numerous entertainment possibilities.

Overnight in Buenos Aires.

Includes Breakfast

Buenos Aires

Today you participate in a tour to a private Gaucho Estancia. The typical landscape of the Argentina humid Pampa, one of the most fertile natural prairies in the world, famous for its meat and cereal production, may be experienced by the tourist in this tour that includes a reception with "empanadas" (meat pies) and "asado" (roast meat) and good Argentinian wines, a show with folk songs and dances, and an exhibition of the gaucho's abilities with riding, taming, and the use of the lasso.

Overnight in Buenos Aires.

Includes Breakfast

Iguazu / Buenos Airese

"Back to the big city!" After all this excitement, this morning will see you transferring by bus to El Calafate Airport to head on back to Buenos Aires and your comfortable city hotel. Have the night out on the town, taking in the many shops, art galleries, bars, restaurants, and discotheques with which Buenos Aires is packed. Overnight at the selected hotel. Meals: Breakfast.

Overnight in Buzios.

Includes Breakfast

Departure

Transfer to the airport for your flight home.