La Serena and Coquimbo

Program Details

Coquimbo is a truly amazing unique region, surrounded and protected by the giants Atacama, the driest desert in the world; Aconcagua, the highest mountain in America; the Pacific, the largest ocean on the planet, and the Andes, the longest mountain range on earth. It has a great diversity of climates, natural resources and cultural treasures that are born from soils of infinite minerals and skies of great luminosity and transparency, which have connected from immemorial times, its inhabitants with the sun, the sea, the mountains and the center of our galaxy.

You will travel back in time to see the places where the conquest of the Green North was forged, the Bay of Coquimbo and the birth of La Serena, the oldest city on the Chilean coast founded to receive by land and sea everything that came from the Viceroyalty. del Peru and thus be able to keep Santiago de Chile alive from the Mapuche onslaught. The mineral wealth of its mountains was of great interest to the Inca and the Spanish who gave notice of a miraculous Marian apparition in a place full of gold, copper and precious stones, becoming the main objective of pirates. Discover the treasures of La Serena and Coquimbo, an ancient ancestral coast and a pre-Columbian cultural metropolis inhabited by the Animas and Changos culture, home to the Diaguitas, Incas, and Mapuches, and later European conquerors, clergymen, and pirates attracted by Andacollo’s gold. place where the oldest virgin in South America appears.

3 days/2 nights program include:

• Transfer in/out Airport/Accommodation/Airport.
• Double or matrimonial room with private bathroom and country breakfast at Hostal Boutique Terra Diaguitas (or similar) with welcome pisco sour or soft drink.
• City Tour La Serena and Coquimbo and “Conquistadores and Pirates” Route: La Serena, Coquimbo, Totoralillo, Guanaqueros and Tongoy (8 hours).
• Stargazing Tour in Collowara Astronomical Observatory or similar. (4 hours)
• Tour to choice: Elqui Valley or Humboldt Penguin National Reserve island (10 hours).
• Lunch menu with drink included during day tours, tickets and tastings.

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