Best of Chile & Easter Island

Day 1 Santiago de Chile 
Arrival in Santiago de Chile and hotel transfer. Enjoy a city tour including a trip up Cerro San Cristobal for a panoramic view at the city and its surroundings.  

Day 2  Santiago de Chile
Day at leisure. Optional: excursion to Valparaiso and Viña del Mar. Guests are going to participate in a full-day trip to the cities of Valparaiso and Viña del Mar. Visit the famous Open Air Museum right in the center of the city on Bellavista hill in Valparaiso.  Continue to the modern seaside resort city of Viña del Mar.  

Day 3  Santiago de Chile - San Pedro de Atacama 
Flight to Calama. Transfer to San Pedro de Atacama.   

Day 4  San Pedro de Atacama
 Visit the world’s largest salt lake: the Salar de Atacama – home to various species of flamingoes as well as many other birds. Contiue to the small village of Toconao, famous for its old church of San Lucas with the bell tower’s roof made of Cactus. 

Day 5  San Pedro de Atacama  
Day at leisure. Optional: visit the Geysers of El Tatio, situated at 14,760 feet above sea level on the Altiplano. Spectacular in the early morning light with steam hurling up from the geysers, this makes for an unforgettable experience. A breakfast box will be served at the geysers. 

Day 6  San Pedro de Atacama  
Transfer to Calama airport and flight to Santiago. In the afternoon enjoy visiting a typical winery at Maipo valley. Wine tasting included (tour & winetasting on Seat-in base). 

Day 7  Santiago - Punta Arenas - P. Natales  
Flight to Punta Arenas. Transfer from the airport to the bus terminal and Public bus ride to Puerto Natales (without tourguide). 

Day 8  Torres del Paine
Full day excursion to visit  the National Park Torres del Paine including visit of Milodon Cave. 

Day 9  Puerto Natales - Punta Arenas
Transfer to the hotel in Punta Arenas. The city “at the end of world” counts more than 116.000 inhabitants. Looking from above the colorful roofs of the city you can enjoy a view far across the Straits of Magellan to the Tierra del Fuego. 

Day 10 Punta Arenas - Santiago de Chile
Optional: Half day excursion to visit the Penguin colony at the Otway Bay (October - March only). Return flight to Santiago and hotel transfer.  

Day 11 Santiago de Chile - Easter Island
Flight to the Easter Island and hotel transfer. The Easter Island is a small triangle in the endless immensity of the Pacific Ocean and located below the tropic of Capricorn and at a distance of 3.790 kilometers of the coast of South America. 

Day 12 Easter Island  
Full day excursion to visit different Ahus. Proceed to Rano Raraku, quarry of almost 900 stone statues, 397 of them still lying or standing at the slopes of the extinct volcano with crater lake. Continue to the beach of Anakena with its restored 
Ahus Nau Nau and Ature Huke. There you will have the opportunity to enjoy the warm Pacific Ocean. Back to hotel.  

Day 13 Easter Island  
In the morning transfer to the extinct volcano Rano Kau with its crater lake and breathtaking view over the whole island. Continue to the ceremonial village of Orongo and the Ana Kai Tangata cave with paintings. In the afternoon visit the restored Ahu Akivi with 7 Moais, built in the middle of the islandto the unrestored Ahu Hanga Poukura and the topknot-quarry Puna Pau with its red scoria stone, where all the Pukaos were made. 

Day 14 Santiago  
End of the roundtrip and transfer to the airport for homebound flight.