Elqui Valley Full Day Tour: magical towns, pisco and mountains

La Serena (Pass-by Only)

Home Tour tour of the foundational terraces, old town and main monuments of the typical area and Plan Serena

We will observe the old indigenous sites and encomiendas, the first churches and hacienda houses of the first conquest captains in the coastal valley of Coquimbito

Embalse Puclaro

We will get to know this surprising work of engineering that stores water for agriculture, mining and also for the practice of wind sports. We will visit its viewpoint and stores of typical products

Vina Falernia

We will stop at the store of the Falernia vineyard and Olivier papayas to learn about the best typical products of the Elqui Valley.

Museo Gabriela Mistral de Vicuna

We will visit a historic little town and national monument where the future Nobel Prize for Literature Gabriela Mistral lived, grew up, studied and taught.

Vicuna

We will visit this small and picturesque city that has one of the liveliest, most beautiful squares with the largest number of sculptures in Chile.

We will get to know an emblematic little town embraced by the sun whose women, in order to overcome the scarcity of resources, decide to learn to cook using artisanal ovens using the energy of the sun. We will have lunch typical Chilean food from the mountains (starter, bottom, dessert and soft drink) in a renowned restaurant where different foods and typical preparations are cooked with solar ovens.

Paihuano

We will stop at one of the most beautiful viewpoints and landscapes in Chile, where the first grape harvests, bacchanals and wine festivals in Chile and the Southern Cone will be celebrated.

Centro Turistico Cooperativa Capel

We will visit a distillery and pisco factory belonging to the capel cooperative or similar where we will taste the famous alcohol of muscatel grapes, its heritage and equipment.

Monte Grande

Beautiful town where the indigenous mountain valleys of Cochihuaz and Alcohuaz meet and where the first female Nobel Prize winner in Latin American literature Gabriela Mistral grew up. Its church, plaza, sculptures and the poet's house were declared a national monument as a whole.

Pisco Elqui

We will arrive at this beautiful and historic town on foot, reliving the walk of the old alcohol merchants who sought this well-known place in the mountains for its famous, sweet and aromatic wines, pisco and grape alcohols. Later, and from this beautiful place, caravans of merchants and muleteers departed to supply alcohol to the largest city in the world at the beginning of the 17th century, Potosi.