SAT CH-002   

View to Lauca National Park in the North of Chile
Arica is the North entrance to Chile. Given its strategic location, it is a zone of great cultural and commercial interchange between Peru, Bolivia and Chile. Within the places that will be able to cross, in addition to Arica, it is the colorful town of Putre, Parinacota and the wonderful Chungará Lake, the one that is in the National Park Lauca. The landscape is of an extraordinary beauty, since are united blue skies, snow-covered volcanoes, archaeological zones and some hills that have been named National Monuments

Day 1 Arica
Arrival to the Airport. Attendance and transfer to the hotel of your election. Half day visit by the city, to know the Cathedral San Marcos, the Railway station of Arica, the famous Morro of Arica and its museum, the beach La Lisera and the Laucho, Chinchorro y las Machas, as well as the Municipal Casino of Arica and the Artisan fair. Return to the Hotel. Lodging.

Day 2 Arica – Chungará Lake – Arica
Breakfast in the Hotel. Full day of visit, starting from the Hotel to the National Park Lauca, crossing the Lluta Valley to observe the geoglyphs in slopes of hills later to arrive at the town of Poconchile, to appreciate its Church. Visits to the town of Socoroma. Enter the National Park Lauca, a true sanctuary of the nature with the Chungará Lake, highest of the World. In its waters, it is possible to appreciate that the volcano figures are reflected Parinacota, Pomerape, Quinchazata and Guallatire, with its permanent fumaroles. In this spectacular landscape it will see that hundreds of guanacos rest, alpacas, vicuñas llamas and vizcachas. Lunch and visits Putre. To the dusk, return to Arica and to the hotel.

Day 3 Arica – Azapa Valley
Breakfast served in the Hotel. Half day visit in regular service, the fertile Valley of Azapa, bordering the hill Sombrero with its panels of geoglyphs where the denominated Flock of Camelidaes stands out, visits the original field of mini golf, sacred hill of Alto Ramirez, with all the expressed ancestral beliefs in geoglyphs. In addition a visit is included to the Pukará of San Lorenzo, the defensive Village raised on the artificial terraces and where cane houses were constructed. It visits the Archaeological Museum of the University of Tarapacá, to observe the old inhabitants of Arica, until the Spaniards arrival, emphasizing mommies of the Chinchorro culture of complicated preparation and oldest of the world. It visits an artisan town before initiating the return to the Hotel. Lodging.

Day 4 Arica
Breakfast in the Hotel. Hour to define, departure towards the Airport, to take the return flight.

The Program includes:

• 3 Nights of lodging in the selected Hotel
• Regular transfers from and towards the Airport of Arica
• Breakfast in the Hotel
• Regular half day visit by the city of Arica
• Full day visit with lunch including to the National Park Lauca, with the Chungará Lake and the Town of Putre including
• Entrances according to the Program