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Day 1: Arica - Putre
Departure to the 10:30 am. We will visit the Agricultural Center to know a typical market, we will enter to the Valley of Azapa, in the road we will observe the Geoglífo
La Tropilla, we will visit the San Miguel of AzapaMuseum. We will cross toward the Valley of Lluta where we will have a view of both valleys. We will eat lunch in an ecological community Ecotruly. We will appreciate the cactus chandelier and the magnetic area, we will visit a pre-Inca strength in Copaquilla and we will know a town precordillerano Socoroma 3000 msnm, we will make a walk toward this town of approximately 1 hour, small break (coffee and cookies). I Arrive to Putre 3500 msnm to the 18:30 hrs. approximately. Accommodation.
Day 2: Putre - Lauca - Parinacota
Departure from the lodging in Putre to the 08:30 am. aprox. We will have breakfast in Putre or in the Thermal baths of Jurasi with bathrooms in this place. We will continue later toward the Bofedal of the Caves where we will make a walk of 40 min. In the road we will see wild vicuñas, vizcachas and we will know bofedales, base of the ecosystem in the highland (Mirador Bofedal of Parinacota). we will Be able to admire a great variety of birds like the pitios of the north, guallatas, taguas, among others. We will admire the Lake Chungara, the Lagoons Cotacotani where we will make a walk of approximately 3 hours (optional). we will Make the picnic - I eat lunch in the town of Parinacota, we will travel the town. Lodging at home of Leonel Teran (basic).
Day 3: Parinacota - Surire
Breakfast in Parinacota (4392 msnm) Departure from Parinacota to the 08:30
am. aprox., Visiting Ancuta and Guallatire later on, two populated altiplanicos on 4000 meters of altitude to the feet of the active
Guallatire Volcano. Ending up when Salting from Surire to the 12:00 hrs. aprox. We will visit Chilcaya making a walk of one hour aprox., to photograph the flora and fauna, the three types of flamingos that
exist in this Salt (Andean, Chilean, James); then we will go to the Thermal baths of Polloquere (4270 MSN), waters of volcanic origin that emerge to 80º C, with high contents of minerals that allowed to rest pleasantly to 4270 msnm. Picnic.
Lodging in Refuge of CONAF.
Day 4: Surire - Isluga - Enquelga - Cariquima
Breakfast in refuge of CONAF. Departure bound for Mulluri - Mirador of Arabilla, Enquelga. We will visit the
Isluga Volcano National Park, where we will know the town Isluga with their Church and bofedales abundance, we will visit the giant cactus of Big River, we will also observe geologic formations of a moving beauty. We will arrive later to Cariquima, famous for their skillful handmade weavers from centuries, to the 16:00
pm aprox.
Accommodation.
Day 5: Cariquima - Humberstone -Huara -
Pica
Breakfast to the 08:00 hrs. From Cariquima we will lower toward the gulch of the Happiness and we will stop in Victoria's Mirador with a beautiful view of canyons and volcanic
rocks. We will visit next in the Miradors of Chusmiza and Pachica, this I finish on the edge of the Desert of Atacama. Then we continue in the Hill Fingernails to observe the Geoglifo but big of the area The Giant of Atacama". we will Eat lunch in Huara and then we will visit the saltpeter deposits of Humberstone and Santa Laura, arriving to the Town of
Pica to the 17:00 pm. aprox.
Day 6: It itches - Geoglifos of Colored - Quillagua - San Pedro or Calama
From Pica (1325 MSN), after our breakfast, we will walk toward the Cocha of Resbaladero, one of the many tunnels used to extract water in the deserted Atacama. These waters are semi-thermal and people of the place say that
it possesses medicinal properties. After this relaxing bathroom we will leave
Pica to visit the geoglifos of Colored that contain 400 figures approximately in 66 panels that men, animals, birds and abstract drawings represent. We will leave from this place crossing the Reservation National Pampas of the Tamarugal to arrive later to the small one I populate Quillagua, oasis next to the river Lauds with cultivations and a town, where it stakes a church and the railroad station. Customs of Quillagua. For later to cross the desert until to arrive to Calama or to continue to San Pedro.
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