Essential Chile: The Atacama Desert, Lake District & Patagonia
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Highlights
- Explore Santiago and its surrounding historical places
- Explorations of Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt
- Visit Chiloe Island
- Enjoy sailing around Fjords and Glaciers
- Visit Torres del Paine National Park
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- Accommodations as listed, including all service charges and taxes
- All ground transfers
- All private excursions with expert English-speaking guides
- All meals as indicated with Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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Meals: Dinner
Upon arrival in Santiago this morning, you’ll be transferred to your hotel to rest up before your comprehensive afternoon city tour. Among the highlights are the city’s most best-known attractions. Start with a leisurely walking tour downtown visi...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
After breakfast at the hotel, you will be transferred to the airport in time for your flight to Calama. Reception at Calama airport and transfer to the village of San Pedro de Atacama through the Domekyo and the Salt Mountain Ranges....
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Today you will visit remote villages and see more of this spectacular salt flat and desert. Visit the villages of Toconao and Socaire, famous for its volcanic Liparite stone, and travel on to the Atacama Salt Lake and the Chaxa and l...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
It’s a very early departure from the hotel (4.00 AM) in time for an unforgettable sunrise at the Geysers del Tatio. Box breakfast on arrival at the Geysers. Your guide will take you on a leisurely w...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
After breakfast in the hotel, you’ll be transferred to the airport of Calama for a connecting flight to Santiago, continuing on to Puerto Montt, gateway to the Lake District. Upon arrival in Puerto Montt, reception and transfer to the hotel in Puerto Varas. The rest of the day is at leisure. Dinner & overnight in the hotel.
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Begin the day with explorations of Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt. Puerto Varas’ streets and avenues are adorned with blooming rose bushes and a must-see is Phillipi Hill with its panoramic views of Lake Llanquihue and the almost perf...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Depart from Puerto Varas for your visit to Chiloe Island! Travel via Puerto Montt, following the Pan Americana route to the south, where you’ll board a ferry to the village of Chacao before continuing to Caulin, where birders delight ...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Today is a travel day. You’ll be picked up and transferred to the airport at Puerto Montt for a flight to Punta Arenas, the gateway to Patagonia. Founded in 1847, the city flourished thanks to the regular maritime traffic between Eur...
It’s an early wakeup call as you get ready to sail from Puerto Natales to the beautiful Ultima Esperanza (Last Hope) Fjord. After a 3-hour navigation, you will arrive at the thousand-year-old glacier of Mount Balmaceda, inhabited by noisy cormorants and raucous sea li...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Your focus today is one of South America’s best national parks, Torres del Paine National Park. Departure from Puerto Natales. The journey continues through barren steppes and Patagonia scrub, full of abundant wild life and he...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Transfer to the bus station to board the regular service bus, which connects travelers to the Punta Arenas airport, where you will connect with your flight to Santiago. In Santiago, you’ll be met at the airport and transferred to the hotel. Enjoy a farewell dinner and overnight.
Meals: Breakfast
Breakfast in the hotel. Transfer to the airport to board your onward flight to the USA.
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Myths and Mountains is the adventure travel company for the discerning and inquisitive globe-trotter seeking a hand-crafted, life-changing experience. With more than 25 years of expertise in designing award-winning trips focusing on cultures and crafts, religion and pilgrimage sites, environment and natural history and natural healing and traditional medicine, we promise adventures beyond the guidebooks, excellence beyond expectations, and guaranteed departures.
Myths and Mountains is the epitome of elegance and casual sophistication – comfortable, convivial and relaxed. We look forward to greeting you as one of our privileged travelers. Enjoy the journey.
Comfortable Travel: Luxury travel with a casual elegance has been our calling at Myths and Mountains for almost 30 years. After all, you’re on vacation, on a journey, on a path of discovery and enlightenment, getting away from it all, seeing the beauty in everything, and breathing the rarified air that makes wherever you travel uniquely yours.
True Experiences: You’ll enjoy boutique hotels and exquisite meals, but traveling with us you’ll also be enveloped by people and societies who teach us about ourselves. You’re sharing yourself with the world and soaking in what the world offers in return.
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- Our guides are known local experts in their fields.
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What's excluded
- International airfare
- Meals where not indicated with a B, L,D
- Domestic airfare (noted separately)
- Tips/gratuity (porters, drivers, local guides, etc)
- Domestic and international airport taxes (i.e. airport tax of $18 in Ushuaia and $18 in El Calafate)
- Other items of a personal nature including laundry, alcoholic beverages, etc)
- Additional expenses resulting from the delay or extension of the trip due to causes beyond our reasonable control
International Airfare/Air Tickets: Refund subject to airline cancellation rules and procedures.
Land Portion & Internal Air*: Refund will be given according to the schedule outlined below.
NOTE: Minimum cancellation charge is $1,000 even for trips with land cost less than $1500.
- If 120 Days or more prior to departure date, then Applicable Cancellation Fee is $1,000 per person plus any varying non-refundable pre-payments we have made in advance on your behalf (i.e. Penalties incurred for cancelling air, deposits paid to hold reservations, etc.)
- If 61-119 Days prior to departure date, then Applicable Cancellation Fee is 50% of the land cost plus any varying non-refundable pre-payments we have made in advance on your behalf (i.e. Penalties incurred for cancelling air, deposits paid to hold reservations, etc.)
- 60 Days or less, then No refund
- At or after departure, then No refund
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