Booking fee
The booking fee includes the costs of booking your tickets such as charges for payment processing. It also covers the provision of our customer care center for processing your order, and all charges imposed by our suppliers.
* This tour requires at least one of the following per booking: Adult, Senior
A complete program that includes transfer from Calama to Hotel in San Pedro, Valley of the Moon Tour, Red Stone tour with Salar de Atacama and Toconao, Geiser del Tatio Tour, and a Lagoon Cejar visit and Transfer back to the Airport
Local guide
Hotel pickup and drop-off (only from centrally located hotels in San pedro de Atacama to Geyser del Tatio, Piedras Rojas and transfer out)
Transport by air-conditioned minivan
Food and drinks, unless specified
Gratuities
Entrace Valle de la luna park clp $ 4.000 per person
Entraces Lagunas Altiplanicas and Salar de Atacama clp$ 5.500 per person.
Entraces Laguna Cejar : clp$ 17.000 per person
Entrace Geyser del Tatio park: clp$ 10.000 per person
Departure Point
Traveler pickup is offered
Traveler pickup
Airport El Loa Calama (CJC), Calama, Antofagasta, Chile
Av. Aeropuerto, Calama, Antofagasta, Chile When you pick up your luggage, you should pay attention to the person with a sign in your name
The duration of the trip is around 1 hour and 30 minutes from airport to San Pedro de Atacama town. Please be sure your flight arrive earily in the morrning to be available to start the afternoon tour. 30 minutes
Valle De La Luna, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile In the Afternoon We will make the Tour to the Famous Valley of the Moon, located approximately to 10 kms. Of San Pedro de Atacama, declared sanctuary of the nature, is part of the national reserve the flamingos, located inside the mountain range of the salt. Place with beautiful shapes and colors where we can walk and observe a geological show with sculptural forms, similar to the lunar surface. Visit the salt statues "Las Tres Marías", the salt caverns. We will go up to the great dune at sunset to admire in all its splendor this beautiful panorama. Return to the town of San Pedro de Atacama.
Arrival approx. 8:00 p.m. 240 minutes
Piedras Rojas, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Then we will go to Piedras Rojas where we will visit Salar de Aguas Calientes and Salar de Talar, where we can appreciate the rock formations reddish colors. 30 minutes
Salar de Atacama, Antofagasta, Chile Then visit the Salar de Atacama, Chiles largest salt lake, where the national flamingo reserve is located and the Chaxa lagoon is visited to watch 3 types of flamingos, as well as other species that inhabit the lagoons of the to Salt. 60 minutes
Geyser del Tatio, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Departure at 04:30 from the hotel, to take a gravel road, by which we start ascending towards the Geyser del Tatio located at a distance of 97 Kms from San Pedro and at an altitude of 4,300 mts. All the route we realize at night, we arrive at this spectacular sector of our altiplano at approximately 06:45, normally the temperature at this time is below zero.
Breakfast and hiking guided by the geothermal field, observation of the impressive columns of steam (Geiser), fumaroles, hundreds of pools of boiling water and high peaks is a spectacular view of nature at dawn. In this sector we can see part of the typical Andean fauna as Vizcachas and Vicuñas. Then we move to the sector of the thermal pools with water with approx 40º where passengers can take a bathroom repair. Then we will start the return to San Pedro, through the impressive landscape of the Andes mountain range, in the route we can see the volcano Tocorpuri and Licancacabur. Arrival in San Pedro at approximately 12:00. 180 minutes
Parque El Loa, Calama, Chile This last day you will be picked up from your hotel 3 hours before your flight departure time, please check with the local supplier the exact pick up time 1 day before you will leave the place.
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Please send your Flight details (nr of flight, time of arrival and date) to program the pick up transfer to your hotel.
Is important you send us the full passport information of each traveller at least 1 week before start the service.
Please send your hotel information, in you are in a Hotel outside the pick up zone we will give you the meeting point in the suplier office, centrally located.
Not recommended for children under 7 years
Not recommended for people over 75
The entraces are not included for any service. Those are the referential prices: • Valle de la luna park clp $ 4.000 per person • Lagunas Altiplanicas and Salar de Atacama clp$ 5.500 per person. • Laguna Cejar : clp$ 17.000 per person. • Geyser del Tatio park: clp$ 10.000 per person. Those must be payed by each passenger when they arrive to the park and only with cash and chilean pesos.
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
Shai_D
27 May 2023
In 4 days we were exposed to many adventures and different sceneries. The pick ups were from our hotel drop off in the town centre. The tour guides were excellent. Lots of knowledge to share on the animals, rock formation, fauna. They went beyond to give the group a good time. The breakfast was always welcome and lunch in the middle of the desert was a once in a life time experience. Highly recommend
huanw2020
11 Jan 2023
The picture was taken in ALtacama desert near San Pedro De Altacama in Northern Chile. Who can tell me what flower is it. Thank you very much for any help.
Amanda_L
04 Jan 2023
Absolutely worst tour company I've ever booked. They shortened the tour from 3 days to 2 days due to New Years (only informed us weeks after booking) and then didn't show up for 90% of the tour.
Out of everything listed, we only saw the Tatio Geysers. After that, they never showed up and didn't respond to any questions about pick-up. They told us to book tickets the day before to the Valley of the Moon, which cost $55, and then never came to bring us on the tour. They apologized for the 'mistake', and then reconfirmed our 6am pick-up for the next day -- which they again did not show up for.
Speaking to locals, they also told us bringing us to the Geysers (which has 4320m elevation) as the first activity is an awful idea due to elevation sickness, which can knock someone out for 2-3 days. In an effort to cram everything into 2 days, they risked my family's health and safety.
We did not trust they would pick us up for our flight back to Santiago, so we elected to book our own transportation instead, which cost a lot of money last minute.
Francisco, who seems to manage their Viator bookings, is abrupt and unhelpful. He provided incomplete itineraries and we had to repeatedly ask for more information. Despite the previous good reviews, please do not risk your trip with this tour company.
They refunded us the tour money, but no compensation for any last-minute transport or attraction tickets, not to mention flight tickets and accommodations. It was a waste of a trip to a beautiful place and I sorely regret booking with Ruta Chile tours.
This tour in
San Pedro de Atacama
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Ruta Chile
We always double-check the availability with our local partners for each booking. Even though this is usually a swift process, it can take up to 24 hours. Once this process is completed you will receive your voucher or ticket by email. If our local partner is not able to confirm your booking we will offer you the best possible alternative. If the new date and/or time doesn’t fit your itinerary, we will reimburse the full amount paid.
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